I always thought Replit was supposed to be a pastebin site with built-in sandboxed code execution, so people could demo Python snippets and what-not. What happened?

Vibe-coding webapps raise more money

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486035

tl;dr: they pivoted from offering services adjacent to "learn to code" (among other things) to vibecoding