👷 Join the FREE Code Diagnosis Workshop to help you review code more effectively using my 3-Factor Diagnosis Framework: www.arjancodes.com/diagnosis

I see many comments talking trash about your AI videos. However, I think you are doing a great service for us by showing this stuff and how we can benefit from it. Your demeanour always feels like an elder bro trying to teach useful stuff to the new kids. I really appreciate you taking your time out and teaching this to us.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎥 The video discusses the use and perception of GPT Engineer, from its usefulness to potential criticisms. 01:07 🛠️ GPT Engineer allows you to create applications by providing prompts and answering clarifying questions. It supports various formats and lengths for IDs. 03:23 🤖 You can use GPT Engineer to generate code, but it may require modifications, and it doesn't work well with existing codebases. 06:18 💻 Hostinger is recommended for hosting applications like those created with GPT Engineer. They offer VPS services. 09:36 🔄 GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 generate different code styles. GPT 4 may pose fewer clarifying questions but is more expensive and slower. 13:27 🌟 GPT Engineer can be useful for generating boilerplate code and specifying technologies for new projects, saving time. 15:22 📦 Despite some issues, GPT Engineer can provide a good starting point for new projects, reducing initial development time. Made with HARPA AI

To me nothing is more fun when it comes to coding than laying out the initial framework and making decisions about how the project is organized. It also seems that building this foundation is a crucial step in making something that is efficient and sustainable in the long run. That said, I'm not sure how I feel about letting AI do that part for me, especially given that early part of a project development constitutes a very small amount of my workload. I have to admit I have not dug deep into what AI can do for me in my workflow, but generally what I have found is that my time is better spent really learning each of the packages I'm using and understanding what I'm actually doing rather than attempting to have AI build the bones of my project and then trying to sift through what it did correctly and incorrectly. Thanks for your videos, they're incredibly well presented and useful.

Wanted to say that I've been going to you for a while now regarding programming concepts and design. Thank you for posting your material. You hit the sweet spot between novice and professional. Would love to see a video covering programming terminology and examples. Thank you for your efforts and I hope that life is treating you well.

The maraka bit is a classic. I subbed twice just for that

Don't listen to all the haters, keep making the always great content Arjan!

A bad prompt gives you a mediocre result, if you describe the architecture, what libraries to use, coding practices, tree of thought, etc. It actually spits out pretty good code.

Fascinating material in this and close to my own findings. So much covered I'm going to have to watch it again. Thanks

Can the code be further changed, extended and refactored until you are satisfied by using prompts with gpt engineer? So can it change existing code or only new?

I would love to know what the cost was of the examples you gave. I would like to start practicing, but not spend 2 euros for every attempt.

You are the amazing teacher in the world! Please don't discourage yourself. Thanks for broadening my horizons with clear example!

Have you tried Cursor IDE?

Hi Arjan! I'd loved your videos :-) You are the best maybe that ever seen in order to explain some Tech Dev or Design Software problem. Thank you a lot!

you'd want to run a summarization on the project, and status of the different parts of the library. it has to be on a extremely modular code base where ideally a block of code it works on it works independently and can be tested in a repl. have it save that information into a instruction.txt file and have it refer to the file to the file when you initialize it. im not sure about engineer particularly( i use open-interpreter) but you can prompt it to do this maintence a s the final step in any action plan.

You can upload your codebase in gpt-4 instead and aks it to make hanges .. i have suceeded in doing it pretty good but as allways it taks time untils its done the way u want.

SO seeing the short comings of each, could you not specify some of the design requirement into your initial file that the AI is reading? Or as you see the design flaws do a refactor on the initial file?

I find your reviews on AI valuable - your experiences and knowledge on the future of programming

Great insights! Is there any toolkit that CAN take your existing codebase and batch refactor it?

Eagerly awaiting October 2nd...

A maracas engineer is more in-demand than the GPT engineer especially for weddings, bar mitzvahs, birthdays. Plus all of those events sound like fun versus just coding.

its basically useful for boilerplate code

Is this Python only? Can I write a Node app with it?

all good but I would actually have coded it myself faster and better than with the help of GPT. If you give it your (mine) crappy code, it can simplify and make it better, but as a generative tool it still lags a lot behind an average human being.

for me i feel that the current state of AI is really at a junior level. i will not trust it to structure my project as it will probably not be a high quality. as a programmer i think that the foundations of a project should be really solid and thats not what u get will current AI tools (this will probably change in the future). with all that said this is pretty amazing and 10 years from now the machines will rule as all.

i just want a documentation assistant to talk with the documentation, nothing else

Ah yes, the 4000 range of HTTP response codes

It still looks like dev work, just a different type of dev work.

Have 'asked' gpt-engineer to build an API based on the following prompt: ""Build an API using FastAPI and SQLite. Initially there should be one table called 'Concepts' in the SQLite database. That table should have at least three columns: id (INTEGER PRIMARY KEY), name (VARCHAR), description (VARCHAR). The application should allow for the following logic: if a HTTP POST request is sent to an endpoint ("/concepts/") then a new record should be created in 'Concepts' table (if it does not exist) and additionally a new table should be created (if it does not exist) with a name corresponding to that new record. The new table should have at least three columns: id (INTEGER PRIMARY KEY), name (VARCHAR), description (VARCHAR). It should be possible to access and manipulate data in all tables with all HTTP methods (CRUD). The application structure should consist of at least the following files: - __init__.py, - database - with all SQLAlchemy parts required to build a SQLite database, - models - with SQLAlchemy database models, - schemas - with Pydantic models, - crud - with CRUD reusable functions to interact with the data in the database, - main - main FastAPI app.""" The results: - imports were declared incorrectly? (ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent pkg) so the whole thing crashed during executing (had the same issue when building a similar api based on official FastAPI tutorial, hm...), - the funcion to create an additional table was declared but never used/called anywhere (I am not a developer and do not know much about software design principles, so not sure if that point makes sense at all or if it is secure from the software architecture point of view, just wanted to check it), - missing schemas file in the project structure, - I was charged $0.17 for that call...:)

Hey, you are getting thinner! not enough Frikadellen in your area? 😂

Can you please get back to the python/design focused videos.. Or even code roasts? Really fed up with this AI based non stopping videos 😢

Why is this Hostinger so cheap compared to maybe godaddy??

xD maracagologist lol

Oh how I "love" to see one of my beloved content creators devolving into a "GPT Engineer". F in the chat boys and girls.

are you persian?.

Two whole minutes wasted talking about the sponsor... Not good, man. Not. Good.

How much does GPT engineer cost to make a project of this size? I know you pay 'per token', but it's not easy to figure out how much all this would cost.