In the journey of Val Town’s code generation journey, various tools have been explored such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude Artifacts. The development has been a series of fast-follows, with successful and unsuccessful attempts. The introduction of Codeium completions in April 2024 has been quite successful, solving the accuracy and performance issues. Additionally, the concept of autodetecting errors by LLM has been explored, adding a novel feature. Collaboration and competition in the code generation space have been mostly collaborative, with Val Town openly sharing its technical choices. The article questions if Val Town should continue to compete or focus on integrating with other AI editors like Cursor and Windsurf. Overall, Val Town has seen success in fast-following and aims to provide a fully integrated web AI code editor experience.
https://blog.val.town/blog/fast-follow/