> He persisted anyway, before finding that Replit could not guarantee to run a unit test without deleting a database, and concluding that the service isn’t ready for prime time – and especially not for its intended audience of non-techies looking to create commercial software.

I don't think non-techies will ever be able to sustainably make commercial software without "bridging" LLM layers such as virtual engineering managers and project leads which keep the raw engineering LLMs in check.