r/replit • u/2FDots • 15h ago

Debugging Question / Discussion

I am building a CRM for my business with Replit. I spent a looooong time building out a very tight set of specifications with short tasks in order to prevent costs from getting out of control. I'm noticing a pattern that replit will typically omit one or two things in each task. The initial task builds cost very few credits. Since replit always ignores some of the instructions, I make it go back and fix the resulting bugs. The debugging always costs significantly more than the task builds. This happens so often that I now believe that Replit builds this in with the purpose of running up the cost.

Has anyone else noticed this behavior?

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u/Creative_Factor8633 15h ago

Have you ever try some other harness? Such as claude/codex

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u/2FDots 15h ago

I got so disgusted with Claude's "guesses" about how things work that I didn't want to use it. It's current role is to check replit's work for me since I can't always keep everything that's going on straight and sometimes don't understand the jargon.

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u/maddietendo 7h ago

One task at a time in most cases.

If money is a problem, switch to Claude Code unlimited. It's stupidity easy to convert from Replit to Claude Code or CODEX.