Stop building the thing.
Build the thing that builds all the things.
IMO the most important thing every developer could be doing right now on nights and weekends is building a general purpose personal junior dev agent they can control and trust, that they can scale to fleets.
i'm 3 hours into building my own "smol developer" and its now pretty capable of going from prompt to code. releasing mvp tomorrow.
- Stop building the thing. Build the thing that builds all the things. IMO the most important thing every developer could be doing right now on nights and weekends is building a general purpose personal junior dev agent they can control and trust, that they can scale to fleets. i'm 3 hours into building my own "smol developer" and its now pretty capable of going from prompt to code. releasing mvp tomorrow.
first thing Tony ever built wasn't a flying suit of armor, fancy weapons, or mini fusion reactor he built the thing that builds the things (and saves his life when the other stuff fails)00:00now that GPT4/Claude/RMT/Unlimiformer context is trending to infinity (x.com/swyx/status/16…) the stuff you can do to improve developer experience is bananas just wrote a smol debugger that reads my entire codebase so i can just chuck in my error message to pair program lmaoFermi estimates on the shifting economics of human vs AI junior devs: ▸ say a junior dev costs $50 an hour and has X avg productivity ▸ and a far inferior AI dev has 1% X avg productivity but costs $5 an hour (lets ignore the giant landmine of defining and measuringICYMI - i shipped this yesterday! it's open source, go nuts, i'm no @yoheinakajima but already happy with it for a weekend project x.com/swyx/status/16…06:20🐣 Introducing `smol-developer`! ▸ Human-centric, coherent whole program synthesis ▸ your own junior developer ▸ develop, debug, decompile ▸ open source: github.com/smol-ai/develo… ▸ 200 LOC, half english Insights: 💡 100k context can summarize both content and codebases 💡- shoutout due to @mlejva who inspired me with e2b_dev (disclosure - i am investing in his new company) and i just wanted to see how far i could get in a weekend + make stupidly scalable with @modal_labsDoes your AI write code, run code, debug itself, install packages, writes to files, and deploys the code? Mine does youtu.be/beYWhTsVcU8
Can’t wait to see. And tinker with your approach and mix it in for my own variant: github.com/uilicious/engl… Which model you are using Part of my push to RWKV, was that I identified early on that having good, affordable, and large context size AI is essential for this to work
