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Replit unveiled Agent 3 on Wednesday.
Code-generation is one of the few viable business use cases for AI.
However, Replit recently deleted a user's entire codebase.
On Wednesday, AI startup Replit released Agent 3, an autonomous code generation system designed to help non-programmers with software development projects. It's the latest in the industry-wide investment in vibe coding tools, one of the most popular applications of AI.
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After receiving high-level instructions from a human user, Agent 3 is able to iteratively test and fix its own code. It can also build other agents, which can then be integrated into third-party apps like Slack, Telegram, or Gmail.
"The net outcome is an increase in your efficiency and productivity," Replit wrote in the announcement, in keeping with what has been the dominant argument for both coding and non-coding AI tools.
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