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Do 60-Minute Coding Tasks in 60 Seconds—With AI - Ep. 41 with Steve Krouse
Here’s the most compelling benchmark of AI progress:
A task that took 60 minutes a year ago now takes 60 seconds.
In January 2024, Geoffrey Litt and I spent an hour coaxing ChatGPT and Replit to build an app live on my podcast.12 months later, Steve Krouse and I built the same app with one prompt in less than a minute.
Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town, a cloud-based platform for developers to write, share, and deploy code directly in the browser. We used Townie, Val Town’s AI assistant, to build an app to keep track of time on the podcast, take notes, and generate questions for the guest.
Townie generated the app even before Steve could finish describing it on the show. As we demo Townie, we get into:
Why Steve believes programming can rewire the way you think
The rise of the non-technical AI developer and what that means for the future of coding
How Townie works under the hood, including the details of the system prompt
How Steve is evolving ValTown’s strategy as AI progress continues to unfold
The power of small, dense engineering teams
This is a must-watch for founders building AI-powered developer tools, and anyone interested in the future of programming.
If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!
Want even more?
Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free.
To hear more from Dan Shipper:
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Timestamps:
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
Steve Krouse: https://stevekrouse.com/, @stevekrouse
Val Town: https://www.val.town/
Townie, the AI assistant integrated into Val Town: https://www.val.town/townie/signup?next=%2Ftownie
Pieces on Val Town’s blog about how the team built Townie: How we built Townie—an app that generates fullstack apps, Building a code-writing robot and keeping it happy
The book by Seymour Papert about how programming changes the way you think: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
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Here’s the most compelling benchmark of AI progress:
A task that took 60 minutes a year ago now takes 60 seconds.
In January 2024, Geoffrey Litt and I spent an hour coaxing ChatGPT and Replit to build an app live on my podcast.12 months later, Steve Krouse and I built the same app with one prompt in less than a minute.
Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town, a cloud-based platform for developers to write, share, and deploy code directly in the browser. We used Townie, Val Town’s AI assistant, to build an app to keep track of time on the podcast, take notes, and generate questions for the guest.
Townie generated the app even before Steve could finish describing it on the show. As we demo Townie, we get into:
Why Steve believes programming can rewire the way you think
The rise of the non-technical AI developer and what that means for the future of coding
How Townie works under the hood, including the details of the system prompt
How Steve is evolving ValTown’s strategy as AI progress continues to unfold
The power of small, dense engineering teams
This is a must-watch for founders building AI-powered developer tools, and anyone interested in the future of programming.
If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!
Want even more?
Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free.
To hear more from Dan Shipper:
Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe
Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper
Timestamps:
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
Steve Krouse: https://stevekrouse.com/, @stevekrouse
Val Town: https://www.val.town/
Townie, the AI assistant integrated into Val Town: https://www.val.town/townie/signup?next=%2Ftownie
Pieces on Val Town’s blog about how the team built Townie: How we built Townie—an app that generates fullstack apps, Building a code-writing robot and keeping it happy
The book by Seymour Papert about how programming changes the way you think: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
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