After 6 Months of Working on a CodeGen Dev Tool (GPT Pilot), This Is What I Learned

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Here are the things I learned in 6 months of working on the most powerful CodeGen dev tool GPT Pilot:
1. The initial app description is much more important than we thought
2. Coding is not a straight line, agents can review themselves
3. LLMs work best when they focus on one problem compared to multiple problems in a single prompt
4. Verbose logs do miracles
5. Splitting the codebase into smaller files helps a lot
6. For a human to be able to fix the code
7. They must be…