[Cthulhu_]

> [...] serving me ads for Replit — one of the many vibe-coding startups that have emerged in the past couple of years,

Replit (formerly repl.it) has been around for a decade as an online IDE / runtime, productized from work from 2009 for editing environments on udemy and co.

But like many companies they pivoted their marketing schtick to AI because that's where the money is. Cursor and Zed are editors, but because they capitalize on the AI hype and investor money they're "worth" tens of billions.

I mean Zed is cool and all because they dared to start a new editor from scratch with performance in mind but that in itself isn't tens of billions.

[satvikpendem]

The Replit CEO also harassed a kid on HN who made an open source version of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195