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Smol AI 🐣 vs Wasp AI 🐝- Which is the Better AI Junior Developer?

vincanger on August 01, 2023

TL;DR AI-assisted coding tools are on the rise. In this article, we take a deep dive into two tools that use similar techniques, but are...
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Craig McIlwrath

It seems like purpose-built AI developers are always going to be more successful than general ones: shared across every web app, or server application, or any other kind of app, there will always be a lot of common knowledge that the agent needs. Putting that work onto the tool developer will make using it easier and allow for ever-increasing quality, as the tool developer iterates on the prompts.

GPT App Generator is a specific tool -> generating web apps from a description.

Smol AI is trying to be too general -> generating any app from a description. But these descriptions have to be so specific, at some point you have to wonder when you're just trying to program with English instead of code. And this makes sense: we've seen from failures in the past (like COBOL) how trying to make a general-purpose program description language to obviate the need for programmers just results in a bad programming language that still requires programmers.

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vincanger

this is very well put. it will be interesting to see how this holds up as LLMs improve over time.

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Matija Sosic

wow, well said :)

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Nevo David

Of course Wasp AI, is that even a question?

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Mihovil Ilakovac

Smol step for a human, a big step for humanity :D

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vincanger

πŸ˜‚

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Marin Smiljanić

Great comparison, to the point!

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vincanger

Thanks, Marin!

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Shayne Czyzewski

Great comparison! I think Wasp really has a great future in the AI-assisted web dev space πŸš€

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vincanger

Thanks!

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Kevin Lu

Also missed Sweep AI, an AI junior dev that's fully asynchronous, so you can offload your workflow to Sweep and work on something else. You can a GitHub issue for Sweep to address it by making a pull request. sweep.dev

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vincanger

What’s been your experience with it? It’s very expensive! Smol and Wasp AI are much cheaper

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Kevin Lu

Full disclosure: I'm one of the developers of Sweep. Our experience using it internally has been amazing, allowing us to ship way faster than before for small menial tasks.

We charge more because Sweep does more. Sweep's a fully autonomous AI junior dev with more scope rather than a convenient tool in your IDE or the like.

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Matija Sosic

wow, this is a super detailed comparison! I especially like the table where you can quickly see the differences between the two.

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vincanger

Thanks!