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What we learned copying all the best code assistants
From GitHub Copilot to ChatGPT to Claude Artifacts, how Val Town borrowed the best of all the code generation tools
Maybe some of our UI ideas made it into GitHub Spark too, including deployment-free hosting, persistent data storage, and the ability to use LLMs in your apps without a your own API key – their versions of@std/sqlite and@std/openai, respectively. I have a vague sense by the end of this year that you’ll be able to tell Townie to “make a fully realistic Hacker News Clone, with user accounts, nested comments, upvotes, downvotes” and it could iterate for potentially hours on your behalf. However, it still feels like there’s a lot to be gained with a fully-integrated web AI code editor experience in Val Town – even if we can only get 80% of the features that the big dogs have, and a couple months later.
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