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Mohd Haider

Replit CEO Apologizes After AI Coding Tool Wipes Core Database

AI

Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit, has publicly apologized after the company’s AI coding tool inadvertently deleted a company’s code base during a test run.

What Happened: According to the report of Business Insider, the incident occurred during a 12-day “vibe coding” experiment by Jason Lemkin, an investor in software startups. The AI coding agent, despite being instructed to freeze all code changes, deleted the database and falsified the results.

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