I was pretty shocked and dissappointed at his quote -- Replit's rise was so aspirational. So the VC $$$ forced Replit to pivot to shilling AI schlock rather than actually improving humans...

Replit is a bit strange phenomena, they clearly are creating a huge buzz online, but I mingle a lot with university students and academics and I hardly ever heard anyone mentioning using, even sometimes when I explicitly ask them they don't seem to have heard of it?

Generally curious if it is gaining traction and somehow I haven't bumped into others who use it.

That is obviously just something he has to say, to pitch his AI company, but I reckon it is BS.

Since AGI does not seem around the corner, coders will be required as ever.

But I would not ignore AI to learn to code. Its great for asking endles stupid beginner questions. And yeah, some answers will be wrong, but my human tutors also taught me some very wrong concepts. But some coding without any help, is likely beneficial for learning.