GPT Engineer

I worry sometimes that my AI posts might give the devs on LifeLog existential dread. Should I start posting trigger warnings like #paradigmShift?

Last year I heard about a tool called GPT Engineer, but it was a bit involved to get it running so I didn’t touch it at that point. The product is now online and in beta, so I signed up. It’s basically a more developed version of WebSim that uses an LLM (I think ChatGPT) to build a front-end using React, Tailwind and Vite. Projects can be integrated with Supabase for data, authentication, and other backend functions, and then synchronized with GitHub. Any changes you push back to the project on GitHub get synced with GPT Engineer, so you could fire up Cursor or your favorite IDE to make specific changes to the codebase and still use GPT Engineer on the updated code. And of course, the project can be deployed with a service like Netlify.

And it’s all easy enough that a hobbyist like me can do it.

So far I haven’t done too much but say “wow” over and over again. The free plan allows only 10 generations per day. In four prompts I made a new version of my Air Fryer Converter then added the code to GitHub. I added a few more preset foods to the app using Cursor and then pushed the changes back to GitHub—the first time I’ve used GitHub in over a decade.

This is truly a nocode solution.