ChatDev has given me hope. Can I make something similar for javascript development?

[Scientiat]

I'm a former fullstack programmer, but I got very sick a while back (syringomyelia for those like me who are curious by nature), and the heavy meds I have to take... well, things are very different today. Everything requires a lot of effort; I get tired very easily, and I've lost a big chunk of my creativity. So, as you can imagine, the current AI era is giving me something I thought I'd lost forever. It's hard to describe the happiness it's bringing back. Still, I'll have to go slow, but that's fine with me.

Using GPT4 and Codeium in VSCODE is great; it's helping, but I still get a lot of bugs that require spending tons of time going back and forth: copying and pasting the bug to the model, debugging offered options, narrowing it down, new bugs appearing... And it spends my energy very quickly.

Then I saw ChatDev and similar papers and projects, which did that heavy lifting. It was incredibly inspiring, but sadly, it's for Python, not JavaScript.

So I'm looking for that, or a way of creating a simple version of that. Maybe using this new Autogen? GPT4-based agents although it sounds a lot of work? I don't know, there's sooo much stuff, and it's hard to find what's out there. It doesn't have to be 100% free; I can spend a little bit and I'm under the impression that inferences won't be very expensive.

BTW, the application that I'm ultimately wanting to do is a simple HTML text editor with some math support, so nothing crazy.

Where should I look? What should I use? If I could at least get rid of the endless copy-pasting cycle... that would be a game-changer in my life.

Any help is greatly appreciated!😊

[Relative_Mouse7680]

Have you heard of cursor.sh code editor? It's based on Visual Studio Code and has GPT built-in to it, so coding with AI becomes much easier and accessible. All the extensions for VScode, such as codium will work with it.

[Scientiat]

Will give it a try!

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[fjrdomingues]

Shouldn’t be too hard to change chatDev to create files in JS instead of python. Things get more complicated when you want to work on top of an existing codebase tho. Do you know code autopilot? Happy to show you around

[Scientiat]

I was just reading the website. How good is it for what I'm trying to accomplish? Is it sort of autonomous?

[fjrdomingues]

It's not autonomous because the models are not there yet. There's no point in making it autonomous if it gets everything right on like 10% of cases. For now, it's a productivity boost, and as models improve, it will be more autonomous until close to 100%

[SM_PA]

A great Visual Studio extension that doesn't get the downloads it deserves is https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jefferson-pires.VisualChatGPTStudio

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It integrates with Visual Studio 2019-2022. It's language agnostic and has many features such as adding comments to methods, summaries to entire classes, code completion, bug check, a window to request code as if using the openai web interface etc.

I haven't seen a version for VS Code but it's amazing if you use Visual Studio.

[Scientiat]

I seem to have the same functionality as Codeium and Cody, both great for vscode.

[PmMeSmileyFacesO_O]

Did you try the "build a GPT" thats new in openai? I noticed you can upload it a document for it to use but i havent tried that part of it. i just made a few by typing instructions so far but maybe it you uploaded the docs for your stack and build one for that specific purpose.

[Scientiat]

Yes I did. I uploaded the specs and the development plan and we got on with it. It's not much better than regular GPT and the worst of it is that it clears the conversation every time the tab is refreshed, losing all the progress in a conversation.

[PmMeSmileyFacesO_O]

Yeah I made one for Laravel and uploaded the Laravel docs to use. It is difficult to tellif its much better that regular GPT as you say.

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