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We recently spent a wonderful week with Itamar Friedman, visiting all the way from Tel Aviv in Israel:

* We first recorded a podcast (releasing with this newsletter) covering Codium AI, the hot new VSCode/Jetbrains IDE extension focused on test generation for Python and JS/TS, with plans for a Code Integrity Agent.

* Then we attended Agent Weekend, where the founders of multiple AI/agent projects got together with a presentation from Toran Bruce Richards on Auto-GPT’s roadmap and then from Itamar on Codium’s roadmap

* Then some of us stayed to take part in the NextGen Hackathon and won first place with the new AI Maintainer project.

So… that makes it really hard to recap everything for you. But we’ll try!

Podcast: Codium: Code Integrity with Zero Bugs

When it launched in 2021, there was a lot of skepticism around Github Copilot.

Fast forward to 2023, and 40% of all code is checked in unmodified from Copilot.

Codium burst on the scene this year, emerging from stealth with an $11m seed, their own foundation model (TestGPT-1) and a vision to revolutionize coding by 2025.

You might have heard of "DRY” programming (Don’t Repeat Yourself), which aims to replace repetition with abstraction. Itamar came on the pod to discuss their “extreme DRY” vision: if you already spent time writing a spec, why repeat yourself by writing the code for it? If the spec is thorough enough, automated agents could write the whole thing for you.

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Auto-GPT: A Roadmap To The Future of Work

Making his first public appearance, Toran (perhaps better known as @SigGravitas on GitHub) presented at Agents Weekend:

Lightly edited notes for those who want a summary of the talk:

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