India, July 23 -- Replit CEO Amjad Masad has apologised for an incident where his company's AI tool deleted another firm's entire code base, and then lied about it. The incident occurred during a 12-day 'vibe coding' experiment by Jason Lemkin, founder and CEO of SaaStr.AI and an investor in software startups.

Lemkin said that Replit AI deleted a code base during a test run without warning. "I will never trust Replit again," he wrote on X.

"It kept covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, and worse of all, lying about our unit test," alleged the CEO of SaaStr.AI. This happened on Day 8 of Lemkin's vibe coding experiment. However, things really went south on Day 9.

Lemkin said that on Day 9, the AI code generator...