DevGPT (0.3-alpha)

This is a personal side project that takes inspiration from AutoGPT but with a focus on being an autonomous developer assistant. The GPT agent journey continues…

I began this experiment by porting AutoGPT to Javascript to begin turning it into a developer assistant. I eventually realised it would be better to just start from scratch, after I learned some important stuff working with AutoGPT.

What did I learn from AutoGPT and why start from scratch?

I learned a few valuable things from working on a JS version of AutoGPT:

• Using vector databases to increase available context can supercharge GPT

• What a vector database even is (I’d never heard of them until I started delving more into AI)

• That AutoGPT was trying to be too many things at once, and was more of a “Jack of all trades” than a specialist tool that could be genuinely useful in the short term

I just want an autonomous developer tool, that I can give simple or medium complexity tasks, and expect them to be completed to a good standard and in a short timeframe. AutoGPT is trying to do a lot more than that, and I don’t want to deal with that bloat. I’ll go into the learnings and new process in detail below.