Current state of virtual developers 8 HN points • 04 Jun 23 🕹 Technology Developers Code generation AI Software Engineering Machine Learning Virtual developer tooling uses LLMs to generate code based on human prompts. Innovations like self-healing code and retrieval augmentation are enhancing the performance of virtual developer tools. The current challenge for virtual developer projects is ensuring reliability in code generation by improving heuristics.
GPT Engineer - A platform for devs to tinker with AI-driven programming tools 6 HN points • 18 Jun 23 🕹 Technology AI Platform Code generation Developers Community GPT Engineer is an open platform for developers to experiment with AI code generation tools. The platform is focused on improving, stability, setting benchmarks, and community involvement. Interested individuals can find more information and get involved with the project on GitHub.
Notes from trying AI coding tools 0 implied HN points • 07 Sep 23 🕹 Technology AI Coding Tools UX Models Some AI coding tools have issues and low activity, like Mentat. Aider offers a polished UX with autocomplete and git commits. Sweep can be simple and useful for basic tasks, but struggles with more complex issues.