👶🤖 Introducing `gpt-engineer` ▸ One prompt generates a codebase ▸ Asks clarifying questions ▸ Generates technical spec ▸ Writes all necessary code ▸ Easy to add your own reasoning steps, modify, and experiment ▸ open source: ▸ Lets you finish a coding project in minutes. swyx scooped me on... releasing first ❤️ – similarities to smol but many new innovations, check README. Next, make it bootstrap. Which means: A "gpt engineer" prompt should generate all functionality of the gpt-engineer repo itself.show more

Generating a whole code base at once is a nice trick but it works only for tiny code bases. Basically as soon as things don't fit into the context the quality will drop sharply and the tool won't be useful. To make a real GPT engineer you need to make it incremental. It should work only on a small task at a time. For example it might work in a loop: 1. Select parts of the code base which are relevant for a particular task. 2. Generate new code taking the context into consideration. 3. Update the summary of the code base. Of course, with a larger context size it might become feasible to update the whole code base at once. But I doubt that quality will be the same as with a smaller context. And you hit a hard limit once you exceed the context size.

Bonus feature: Over promise and under deliver like a true consulting engineer

This looks cool! I’m working on something pretty similar

this is amazing 🔥🔥. . any tips on how to make this work with chatgpt-3.5 turbo for the plebs on the waitlist for gpt4 api access? I'm getting an error bc of the context length token limits of the 3.5 model. I want to experiment with this soo bad.

But did the code work? And does it have the ability to clarify that it works, and debug it if it doesn’t?

bro why didn't you hit run

Thank you thank you thank you But at the same time 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭. There goes my profession

So did the snake game work? Demo ended for it ran. Anyways cool project!

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