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 ====== Smol Developer ====== ====== Smol Developer ======
  
-**Smol Developer** is an embeddable AI developer agent that generates entire codebases from a single natural language prompt. Created by Shawn Wang (swyx) in May 2023, it was one of the first viral AI coding projects and pioneered the concept of an embeddable developer agent library. With over **12,200 GitHub stars**, it demonstrated that a "junior developer" agent could scaffold complete applications from a specification.+**Smol Developer** is an embeddable AI developer agent that generates entire codebases from a single natural language prompt. Created by Shawn Wang (swyx) in May 2023, it was one of the first viral AI coding projects and pioneered the concept of an embeddable developer agent library. With over **12,200 GitHub stars**, it demonstrated that a "junior developer" agent could scaffold complete applications from a specification.((([[https://github.com/smol-ai/developer|Smol Developer GitHub Repository.]])))
  
 GitHub: [[https://github.com/smol-ai/developer|smol-ai/developer]] GitHub: [[https://github.com/smol-ai/developer|smol-ai/developer]]
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   * **Embeddability** — Designed as a library first, enabling integration into larger systems   * **Embeddability** — Designed as a library first, enabling integration into larger systems
  
-The project inspired a wave of "smol" AI tools including smol-podcaster, smol-course, and smol-tools, establishing a pattern for minimal, focused AI developer agents. +The project inspired a wave of "smol" AI tools including smol-podcaster, smol-course, and smol-tools, establishing a pattern for minimal, focused AI developer agents.((([[https://www.latent.space/p/smol-developer|Latent Space Podcast: Smol Developer Episode.]])))((([[https://twitter.com/SmolModels|SmolModels Twitter.]]))))
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-===== References ===== +
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-  * [[https://github.com/smol-ai/developer|GitHub Repository]] +
-  * [[https://twitter.com/SmolModels|SmolModels Twitter]] +
-  * [[https://www.latent.space/p/smol-developer|Latent Space Podcast Episode]]+
  
 ===== See Also ===== ===== See Also =====
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   * [[autocoderover|AutoCodeRover]] — Autonomous program improvement agent   * [[autocoderover|AutoCodeRover]] — Autonomous program improvement agent
   * [[trae_agent|Trae Agent]] — ByteDance's research-friendly CLI agent   * [[trae_agent|Trae Agent]] — ByteDance's research-friendly CLI agent
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 +===== References =====
  
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