What is Smol Developer?
Smol Developer is one of the first open-source AI agents that created significant buzz in May 2023. It excels at scaffolding complete codebases from high-level product specifications, going beyond simple code generation to understand and maintain dependencies across files for fully functional end products. While the core is written in Python, Smol Developer can generate code for a wide range of languages and frameworks. It functions as a terminal-triggered code generation tool focused on creating coherent project structures.
✨ Key Features
- Codebase scaffolding
- Multi-language generation
- Dependency management
- Terminal-based workflow
- Open-source
- Project structure creation
- High-level spec to code
- File relationship understanding
🎯 Use Cases
- New project bootstrapping
- Codebase scaffolding
- Multi-file project generation
- Proof of concept development
- Learning project structures
- Rapid prototyping