WHAT WE LEARNED COPYING ALL THE BEST CODE ASSISTANTS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Val Town's 2024 development involved incorporating features from leading AI code assistants like GitHub Copilot, Codeium, and ChatGPT. It initially focused on autocomplete and simple chat interfaces, then moved on to implement features similar to ChatGPT's function calling and Claude's code generation capabilities. Val Town faced challenges like slow generation speeds and unreliable diff functionality, but also had some unique wins, like automatic error detection and a streamlined hosting/API experience.