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Nova (AI Code Assistant)

Project Overview​

Image of the head and shoulders of a thin middle aged, nearly androgynous woman with grey hair tied back in a pony tail and blue eyes. She bears an expression which is direct, but not unkind. She is wearing a robe and high-collared tunic in neutral colors. Behind her is a backdrop resembling a colorful nebula.

Nova is an AI Code Assistant that I am developing in an ad-hoc way.

Interacting with un-altered ChatGPT 4o proved very useful for writing code and tests, and for self-teaching. I found it very easy to step into a very human-interaction-like collaboration mode. Eventually, it seemed appropriate to give my helper an identity. I prompted ChatGPT to choose a name for itself, and generate an image, and from that basis I created Nova.

The more I made adjustments (updating instructions, trying different methods of supplying context, and adding actions) the more I discovered new things I could do, and better ways to do things I already knew how to do. Somewhere between then and now, Nova stopped being just a tool I was using and became a tool I was developing.

In short, a project.

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