# Replit — I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-05T20:51:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/building-my-first-slack-bot
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17972-i-m-not-a-programmer-and-i-used-ai-to-build-my-first-bot
- Subject: Replit Agent

A Replit employee with no prior programming experience describes building a Slack bot that uses Google Vertex LLMs (accessed via Replit's ModelFarm) to generate daily channel summaries. The post highlights Replit's AI-assisted coding environment, the ModelFarm's free trial of Vertex models, and one-click deployments as enablers for non-programmers.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replit.com/blog/building-my-first-slack-bot:

> Replit recently launched the ModelFarm, and for a month, the cost of the Google Vertex models is free. So I decided to use these for summaries.

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