馃 Developer Ports Botparty to SvelteKit to Enable AI-Assisted Bug Fixes
馃 Developer Ports Botparty to SvelteKit to Enable AI-Assisted Bug Fixes
馃 Making Code Robot-Friendly
A developer has ported their botparty project to SvelteKit, with plans to do the same for voxels if the migration proves successful.
Key motivation: The original Preact/Express codebase was too idiosyncratic for AI coding assistants like Cursor to effectively debug and fix issues.
Additional updates:
- Work continues on avatars at splat.land
- Multiple bugs fixed that were previously difficult to debug in voxels
- Users can hold 'v' to interact with the AI assistant
The move represents a practical shift toward more standardized frameworks that work better with AI development tools, potentially making maintenance and bug fixes more efficient.
Ported botparty to sveltekit as an experiment. Thinking of doing the same to voxels if cursor can do a good job. I鈥檇 like to make it easier for the robots to fix bugs, and the preact / express code I wrote is so idiosyncratic it can鈥檛.
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