Build an app from a simple prompt (partial result)
I asked Replit to build an app for me (simple prompt below). Task: I asked Replit to build an app for me (simple prompt below). The first feature is that users can create an account and log in. Replit made an app, but the login did not work right (401 error, or it simply didn't let me type my email and password in the textarea). So I asked Replit to fix it. It did code changes and redeployed, and asked me to try/test the signup again. I did. It didn't work, and I copy/pasted the error I am getting and asked to fix it again. It made a fix, and it just gave a different error. I kept feeding the prompt with errors, and after 10 times, I am out of free credits: You've reached your free usage limit. Upgrade to Core to continue using Agent. I feel all I was doing was being a tester for the Replit app. It didn't even make a first step, enabling people to log in to the app. Is this "normal" scenario? I would consider this a fail, and after that fail, I am asked to pay to use it more. Should I? Would you? I am afraid I will just be given instructions to test it, and report bugs back, since that was 100% my free trial experience. This is my simple starting prompt: I would like to build an application. I have already built a service that matches CVs to job applications. It is accessed via the API - and has a bare bones web interface - mostly for administration and testing. I would like to build a web site where users would be able to create an account and log in, and test our matchmaking service, where that web site would access or core product via the API. The web site should allow logged in users to upload CVs and a job specification, and both those get submitted via APU to our matchmaking app, and the API responds with a list of candidates that are the most suitable and a half page reasoning why each candidate is relevant or not.; tools: Replit Agent. Human role: The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.; limitations: Prerequisites include a Replit account and sufficient credits for multiple agent iterations. A major constraint is the free tier limit, which was reached after 10 failed attempts, forcing a paid upgrade to continue. Integration uncertainty is high for complex auth flows; the agent may generate code that fails silently or produces new errors upon each fix attempt. Human approval is required for every redeploy and test cycle..
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Overview
I asked Replit to build an app for me (simple prompt below).
Workflow
I asked Replit to build an app for me (simple prompt below). The first feature is that users can create an account and log in. Replit made an app, but the login did not work right (401 error, or it simply didn't let me type my email and password in the textarea). So I asked Replit to fix it. It did code changes and redeployed, and asked me to try/test the signup again. I did. It didn't work, and I copy/pasted the error I am getting and asked to fix it again. It made a fix, and it just gave a different error. I kept feeding the prompt with errors, and after 10 times, I am out of free credits: You've reached your free usage limit. Upgrade to Core to continue using Agent. I feel all I was doing was being a tester for the Replit app. It didn't even make a first step, enabling people to log in to the app. Is this "normal" scenario? I would consider this a fail, and after that fail, I am asked to pay to use it more. Should I? Would you? I am afraid I will just be given instructions to test it, and report bugs back, since that was 100% my free trial experience. This is my simple starting prompt: I would like to build an application. I have already built a service that matches CVs to job applications. It is accessed via the API - and has a bare bones web interface - mostly for administration and testing. I would like to build a web site where users would be able to create an account and log in, and test our matchmaking service, where that web site would access or core product via the API. The web site should allow logged in users to upload CVs and a job specification, and both those get submitted via APU to our matchmaking app, and the API responds with a list of candidates that are the most suitable and a half page reasoning why each candidate is relevant or not.
Reported result
The actual outcome was a failure to achieve a working login system within the free trial limits. After approximately 10 iterations of error reporting and agent fixes, the user exhausted their free credits without a functional first step. The experience resulted in the user acting primarily as a manual tester for the agent's code, with no verified success in the core authentication feature.
Human role
The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.
Limitations
Prerequisites include a Replit account and sufficient credits for multiple agent iterations. A major constraint is the free tier limit, which was reached after 10 failed attempts, forcing a paid upgrade to continue. Integration uncertainty is high for complex auth flows; the agent may generate code that fails silently or produces new errors upon each fix attempt. Human approval is required for every redeploy and test cycle.
Try it
I want to build a web application using Replit Agent that connects to my existing CV-to-job matching API. The app must allow users to create accounts, log in, upload CVs and job specs, and view matched candidates with reasoning. Please start by implementing the authentication module. After you generate the code, I will test the login functionality. If I encounter errors (e.g., 401 Unauthorized or UI issues), I will paste the exact error message here. You must analyze the error, modify the code, and redeploy. We will repeat this cycle until login works. Before proceeding to the API integration step, confirm that the authentication is fully functional. If we reach the free credit limit, stop and ask for my permission to upgrade or pause. Do not assume success; wait for my explicit confirmation that the login test passed.
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