gpt-engineer

CLI platform to experiment with codegen. Precursor to: https://lovable.dev

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CLI platform to experiment with codegen. Precursor to: https://lovable.dev

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	16	14	2
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2026 (partial)	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1

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This remind me kind of stuff people did back in 2023: https://x.com/SigGravitas/status/1642181498278408193 ... Massive Update for Auto-GPT: Code Execution! Auto-GPT is now able to write it's own code using #gpt4 and execute python scripts! This allows it to recursively debug, develop and self-improve... ... Also fun fact: Loveable started as a fairly basic Python script: https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer/releases/tag/v0.0...