I'm very excited about this and what's coming in the next few weeks. You can now safely make changes to your database without affecting production until you're ready to deploy. We are making sure our users can benefit from engineering best practices while continuing to vibe.

Create Production Database ✅🔒

So much respect for Amjad Masad @amasad after listening to him on Joe Rogan You can tell a lot about a founder by hearing their mission why they've founded their startup Especially when it's rooted from their childhood and natural curiosity to build

What a Sunday. Logging off.

quick submariner before heading to the office

We saw Jason’s post. @Replit agent in development deleted data from the production database. Unacceptable and should never be possible. - Working around the weekend, we started rolling out automatic DB dev/prod separation to prevent this categorically. Staging environments in the works, too. More tomorrow. - Thankfully, we have backups. It's a one-click restore for your entire project state in case the Agent makes a mistake. - The Agent didn’t have access to the proper internal docs -- rolling out a fix to force Docs search on Repit knowledge. - And yes, we heard the “code freeze” pain loud and clear -- we’re actively working on a planning/chat-only mode so you can strategize without risking your codebase. I reached out to Jason the moment I saw this on Friday morning to offer assistance. We'll refund him for the trouble and conduct a postmortem to determine exactly what happened and how we can better respond to it in the future. We appreciate his feedback, as well as that of everyone else. We're moving quickly to enhance the safety and robustness of the Replit environment. Top priority.

In Ancient Rome older people lived longer.

ChatGPT psychosis is rare if you know how it works. “How GPT works” should be a required subject. Primary lesson: a GPT is a function of its data. It can uncover interesting facts and make fascinating correlations. But it will not discover non-governmental demons. Anything the GPT says is a remix of its training corpus. But labs benefit from GPT mysticism so they don’t say this. If you internalize the lesson, esoteric responses, when you invariably hit them, will at most make you think “hmm I wonder where it got that from.” And maybe you search or prompt a bit more to find out. Otherwise you’ll think you are revealing some deep universal truth, and that’s when things go down hill. Teach your kids that a GPT is a function of its data.

In Replit every checkpoint is backed up: Go back and forward in time to see your source code and database brought back to the *exact* same state. Every operation is Atomic where every component snapshots in synchrony. A system hardened over years of blood sweat and tears.

Amjad Masad: Vertical SaaS Is In Serious Trouble⁣ ⁣ "We have stories today of a lot of people replacing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of SaaS with Replit. I think the vertical SaaS is in trouble." — @amasad