As a follow-up on my use of Replit, I did a lot with it today. I got rid of the .Net dependency first thing - but this is roughly when I did get quite annoyed. It gives you 10 "snapshots" for free as part of its trial use, but the agent determines where those snapshots are taken. So I started the day with 3 left. I made a query of the agent to do a thing. It did the thing, but took two snapshots to do it. So, 1 left. One more query - it gets about halfway through doing the thing, takes a snapshot, says it has more to do, and stops.

In trial mode, you can't roll back. I had the code from before I started the day, but really wanted those changes. Now fucking Replit has basically held me hostage - put in your credit card info or have this now unusable code. Fucking bastards. As you could have guessed, I paid for a month of service. Now I have 25 credits for something, but after working at it all day, and doing some debugging (making it fix code it got wrong) and fighting it over how to properly display icons (I won, after about 10 prompts), I probably used almost all of that.

In good news, I have a working app that will save me a ton of time and allow me to outsource a bunch of busy work to India. The app is friendly enough they can use it; powershell was not. In bad news, Replit has my CC info. I can think of 2-3 more apps to build...