on Jan 3, 2025 Since the beginning of Val Town, our users have been clamouring for the state-of-the-art LLM code generation experience. When we launched our code hosting service in 2022, the state-of-the-art was GitHub Copilot. But soon it was ChatGPT, then Claude Artifacts, and now Bolt, Cursor, and Windsurf. We’ve been trying our best to keep up. Looking back over 2024, our efforts have mostly been a series of fast-follows, copying the innovation of others. Some have been successful, and ...