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Funny timing. StackBlitz announced Bolt.new (https://bolt.new/) today with multi-file edit, emulated filesystem, arbitrary npm installs, and is open source. I feel ChatGPT is still chasing after Claude 3.5 artifact.

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Bolt.new may be technically open source, but it seems to be dependant on closed source StackBlitz webcontainers? Not truly open source IMHO.

I was coincidentally looking into this yesterday, trying to find an implementation of JS sandbox to run AI-generated code or web apps in.

A similar project is sandpack, but that relies on nodebox which is also closed source.

Another comment rather disparages Bolt:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41733485

Has anyone had much experience with it, that can share their findings? I'm happy with Claude Sonnet and can't try every new AI code tool at the rate they are coming out. I'd love to hear informed opinions.

Just tried it, it wrote promising code but in the end only the last file was created and the other files had no content (even though I saw them being written). Seems a bit bugged at the moment.

EDIT: Only seems to work in Chrome?

I tried Bolt this morning for about 5 minutes, and it did output valid React code, but things like inputs and buttons it created didn't work without additional prompting, and then it started throwing "There was an error processing your request"

The symbol and Blitz kind of give Nazi vibes. Did they think the naming through?

"Blitz" literally just means "lightning"

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