Replit Agent: Turn ideas into apps

Build apps with a true assistant even if you don't know how to code!

Heather Cooper

Sep 10, 2024

Total reading time around 5 minutes.

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Replit Agent

Replit Agent is an AI-powered tool that helps users build software projects by understanding natural language prompts and creating applications from scratch.

With Replit Agent, users of all skill levels can develop apps more easily. Currently in early access, the tool is included in Replit Core and Teams subscriptions at no additional cost. (link)

To access the Replit Agent:

Log in to your Replit account with a Replit Core or Teams subscription
Visit the home page or select Create Repl in the left navigation
Input a descriptive and detailed prompt for the agent to build
Let the agent select technologies to use, rather than specifying specific languages or frameworks
The agent is best suited for 0 -> 1 prototyping for web-based applications

I tested it with an app idea I’ve been thinking about for a while for an image color palette extractor that generates prompts with the extracted colors. I didn’t finish yet, because I kept adding more functions based on the agent’s suggestions…

Here’s a quick look at how it works from your idea to previewing the app in action:

Apple Fall Event 2024

Apple made several significant announcements at their annual fall event:

iPhone 16 Series: Four new models with varying designs and features, including the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Apple Watch Series 10 and Ultra 2: Updated features and possibly new health and connectivity options.
AirPods Updates: AirPods 4, new colors, and an update for AirPods Max with USB-C connectivity. AirPods Pro 2 also gets new software features.
Apple Intelligence: A new AI feature enhancing user interaction with personalized and context-aware functionalities, including iOS 18 updates.
Visual Intelligence: A feature using the camera to provide more information about surroundings, showcasing Apple's augmented reality and AI advancements.
Other Updates: Enhancements to Apple services, including Apple Maps, Apple Pay with new payment options, and a redesigned Apple Fitness+ experience.

Read more about Apple’s Fall Event here.

Hailuo x MiniMax AI video

MiniMax by Hailuo is the newest AI video model and it’s impressive. I tried it and was amazed at the quality of text to video results.

I feel like I keep saying new video models are ‘Sora-like’, but I feel like we are approaching that level quickly. Plus, we don’t have access to Sora.

Maybe we don’t need Sora, if we have tools like Gen-3, Luma Dream Machine, Kling, and now MiniMax.

Why does this matter? If you need to generate a quick idea, you can type it and get a smooth, realistic video - often with only 1 prompt!

MiniMax is only available as a web app and it’s currently free for anyone to use. I am sure it will not remain free, so you might want to check it out soon. (link)

A few examples below:

Prompt: A futuristic research facility where scientists examine alien artifacts under intense scrutiny. Cool, desaturated blues. Artificial light, high contrast. Close-up of the artifacts.

Prompt: A serene mountain landscape, the camera pushes in slowly to reveal a hidden lake.

Prompt: An epic sandstorm engulfing an ancient desert city. Show massive waves of sand rolling over ornate temples and markets. Include figures scrambling for shelter, their robes billowing in the wind. Use sweeping aerial shots to convey the scale of the storm.

📸AI Snapshots

Groq announced that LLaVA v1.5 7B is now available on GroqCloud, offering state-of-the-art multimodal AI capabilities across image, audio, and text. This powerful model enables applications like visual question answering, image captioning, and multimodal dialogue, making it ideal for industries like retail, education, and finance.

Luma AI Dream Machine 1.6 has Camera Motion giving you more control over your video results. Now, when you use Dream Machine just type 'Camera' in the prompt box to get the Camera Motion dropdown menu for 12 types of movement, including pan, orbit, and crane up or down.

Project Sid involves the first-ever autonomous AI agent civilization in Minecraft. The project simulates over 1,000 “truly autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world, w/ emergent economy, culture, religion, and government.”

🛠️ This Week’s AI Tools

PicStudio AI: Upload selfies and get realistic, high-resolution portraits in various styles, like “Wes Anderson film”, for profile pics and thumbnail images, generated by the platform’s FLUX LoRA. (link)

Paradigm: Centered around the primitive of a spreadsheet, Paradigm puts swarms of intelligent agents at your fingertips. Gather insights from uploaded data, generate niche data and analyze, identify people and reach out to them. (waitlist link)

Easy-Peasy AI: Train models including FLUX LoRAs on your own images to generate yourself as a superhero, cartoon character, and more - $5. (link)

Overlay: AI-powered podcast assistant. Ask it about any topic or person, and it’ll give you a custom podcast playlist of clips relevant to what you asked for. (link)

Shader AI: Real-time effects and AR filters for live calls and video posts. (link)

Reshot AI: AI editor for photos, 3D avatars, headshots, to change expressions, including mouth & eyes. (link)

Reshot AI in action:

🎧IntelliVerse Podcast

I had a great discussion with Adam B. Levine, co-founder & CIO of Blockade Labs for the next episode of my podcast.

The episode will be out soon, but here's a clip where we talk about the disruptive power of generative AI:

🖼️ Image Prompts

Prompt: Floating villa on a tropical lagoon, stilt-supported, glassy reflections, clear blue water, vibrant coral, sunset horizon

Prompt: A hyper-realistic macro shot of a glass bottle containing herbal supplements, label razor-sharp and embossed. Soft-focus background showcases vibrant, dew-kissed herbs. Golden hour sunlight streams through, casting prism-like reflections. Evokes a sense of natural purity and time-honored holistic remedies.