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title: "BREAKING NEWS: oTToDev is Now the OFFICIAL Open Source Bolt.new"
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published: 2024-12-11
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## Transcript

**[0:00:00]** over the past couple of months we as a community have been building up autod Dev our for kabolt on new which we are building to be the best open source AI coding assistant and so far we have been absolutely crushing it and now things are about to get aund times more

**[0:00:16]** exciting last week I announced that we're forming a strategic partnership that's going to supercharge this project beyond what any of us could even have dreamed of when we started and now I get to make that announcement to you finally and I'm just going to cut right to the

**[0:00:30]** Chase because I can't even contain my excitement anymore and I don't want to drag you through a bunch of fluff anyway automator which is the platform that I and a few others have been building up behind the scenes for you that is also the home of the autod dev Community is

**[0:00:44]** partnering with stack Blitz to make autod Dev the official open-source version of bolt. new and we will be renaming to bolt. DIY I even got to sit down and talk to Eric the CEO of Stack Blitz about this partnership so check that out now and then after this little

**[0:01:01]** segment I'll talk about what this means for us as a community hey everyone just wanted to give a quick little segment here with Eric introducing the partnership between automator and stack Blitz as we are making autod Dev the official open- Source repo for bolt. new and renaming it to bolt. DIY so I wanted

**[0:01:18]** to get Eric on here first of all to say you've done an amazing job with bolt. new and the product that you created it's helped so many people make insane applications already um and now I just wanted to pick your brain with bolt. DIY specifically where you see it going the

**[0:01:32]** kind of Future Vision that you have for it because you got your own thoughts I've got my own as well and they really work together super nicely so yeah I just want to hear from you like kind of what your vision is for it totally well and I think I mean I wanted a huge

**[0:01:45]** credit to you and then the community of folks that you've pulled together um you to work on autod dev and you now both DIY because I think I mean it's been amazing to see The Innovation that's happened as a result of you know y'all adding the ability to have you know any

**[0:01:59]** type of llm powering the experience and you know what just coming from the from the world we're in like building a you know kind of a frontier AI agent you know we we the reason we open sourced you know kind of the core components of Bolt is when we looked around when we

**[0:02:15]** were building bolt you know from scratch there was just no good examples of like actual uh production software you know that have ai agents like good examples at least and uh you so we felt there was like you just kind of there was something missing in the open source

**[0:02:28]** world for that and you all have to kind of it to the next level where when you look at the the folks that are building these Frontier AI models right whether they're open source or closed Source the The evals and benchmarks that they're testing these things against are I mean

**[0:02:42]** not that they're not useful certainly in the earlier days as we were kind of trying to figure out how good are these things at coding or whatever it's like they're not actually representative of like real world applications and so what folks have been using what what caught my eye you know like when you know

**[0:02:56]** actually um you when you were you know with your fork was that a lot of the Frontier uh research labs are taking you know you know what's now bolt. DIY and they're using that to test out their nextg models because it's actually it's it's if you kind of like for those who

**[0:03:12]** are doing uh PC gaming in the 2000s it's like you know can it run crisis you know like for a lot of these these these AI model providers they're now going okay can it can it run Bol because there because there's not a lot of other things to to test it out against and

**[0:03:24]** this is going to be uh you know it's it it's a huge gap right and you if we want these AI models to keep getting better they need a reliable Target of Hey What Can we test this against to kind of get a a real world perspective of how well

**[0:03:37]** these things are going to perform um and and and you know yall have enabled that to happen you know with the you be able to swap out any LM on the Fly um so that's what I'm stoked about it's this this is already starting to change this this is starting to change how folks

**[0:03:51]** that are training models are are going about their business and in doing it you know and that's it's huge I mean this that's going to be you know that we're going to feel the benefits of that uh you know in every AI product going forward you know so this is It's a you

**[0:04:04]** know it may it's maybe a small number of people working on you know bolt. DIY but like the impact is is huge you know so so I just want huge credit to you all I'm I'm so excited about this yeah I appreciate that and I'm definitely with you there I whenever a new model comes

**[0:04:17]** out before I was using bolt I would just test it as an AI agent like I just had my python script using Lang chain or whatever I'd say how is it do as an agent but now I also will test the model with bolt. DIY like immediately like

**[0:04:29]** when quen 2.5 coder 32b came out within like six hours of it being released I had it up and running with bolt. DIY seeing how good it would perform and I'm going to keep doing that with every single model coming out that like anybody cares about um so I'm definitely

**[0:04:43]** with you there and then on my side I have some other aspects to the vision too that I think still play with that really well one of them is having this be an educational project in a way um cuz one big thing right now is like people just don't know how to work with

**[0:04:57]** AI coding assistants and they get bad results and they just think that the llm is terrible it's hallucinating and there's nothing they can do and really there's actually a lot that goes into working with it as a co-pilot even though it does a lot for you now like

**[0:05:09]** bolt. new generates entire full stack applications and it's a lot different than you know GitHub copilot in 2022 you still have to work with it and so I think that bolt. DIY is going to be an awesome platform just to learn how to work with AI coning assistance but it's

**[0:05:25]** still going to be more than that too it's also going to be this fully-fledged product in a sense that you can run yourself and use to work with all these local llms with all these insanely cool features that commercial bolt. new won't have because we can just move so fast as

**[0:05:40]** an open source repository and so you can think of it like bolt. new this is the stable product for you to go and very easily build anything but then if you want to experiment some really cool stuff push the limits build things yourself even and work with different

**[0:05:53]** llms that's when you go to bolt. DIY and so they work very well together um and definitely bolt. DIY does have a separate vision for the things that you said Eric and then a lot of like you know educational and Cutting Edge stuff that I was talking about too so yeah

**[0:06:07]** yeah totally and that that's what's been amazing is like seeing you know all the the different things that folks are building on top of it I mean this is and it's cool because like and we're going to be doing the same of like it's it's uh it's great I mean everyone can share

**[0:06:19]** their ideas like hey how should this sort of experience work and like how can you expand it and that's helped us with our product road map too of like how we're like you know doing Persistence of chat messages and like you know having roll backs and things like that that

**[0:06:30]** stuff it's like that came to the open source version first you know um and so you I think I think it's great like we get to contribute to the mix and and your community has been contributing and a lot of other people right are able to do that um I agree on your point around

**[0:06:42]** education I mean there's not a lot of good real world things to look at you know um so this is this is providing a huge a huge uh uh you know there's a huge gap there that this is that this is filling right um so yeah just I couldn't

**[0:06:55]** agree more I mean it's it's really exciting like it I'm I'm I'm super stoked for this uh for you for us all to be kind of you pulling this in and joining forces here and and you know taking this to the next level yeah same here I am stoked out of my mind it's

**[0:07:08]** just been non-stop just me like pouring into this repo over and over again every single day day and day out and so now being able to to partner with you and like make this you know the official open source bolt on it was just so cool for me and and the entire the team of

**[0:07:22]** maintainers and the whole Community built around it like it's just super exciting so yeah I think um with that we'll dive into the the last part of my video here my announcement where I'll just talk about more what this means for our community and what we've got coming

**[0:07:37]** up for b. DIY as well so thank you Eric so much for doing this with me and getting this segment together I'm super excited for what we've got in store for the future here yeah likewise likewise really excited about this yeah all right thanks Eric so there you have it I am

**[0:07:50]** just so excited for what this partnership means for both bolt. DIY and our community as a whole this partnership is really the best case scenario and it's really going to give us permission to say that we are actually building the best open- source AI coding assistant bolt. new itself is

**[0:08:07]** just such an incredible platform and has already enabled thousands tens of thousands of people to build insanely powerful applications with AI so it's just an honor to partner with stack Blitz on this and it means such incredible things for bolt. DIY and bolt. new going forward also I'm going

**[0:08:25]** to be in the stack Blitz office hours today the 11th at 1:00 Central Time so be there for that we're going to have a whole segment on this partnership right after they talk about some of their super base announcements that they're doing as an integration for bolt. new

**[0:08:39]** now here's the thing I fully expect this transition to not be entirely smooth sailing for everyone I mean there is a lot going on here so I want to spend a couple of minutes right now making sure that we're all on the same page covering some key parts of this partnership and

**[0:08:54]** the transition I'm going to have some little demos of bolt. DIY up as I'm doing some talking here just to keep it interesting but it's really important that we're on the same page for all of these things first of all the automator think tank is still going to be the home

**[0:09:06]** of the bolt. DIY Community we're going to keep growing it into a super vibrant place to share ideas work on the project together and just get as many people as possible involved in the project our repository for bolt. DIY is going to move it's going to go into the stack

**[0:09:22]** Blitz lab organization and GitHub but the repo itself will still be the same so we'll still have the same Stars the same Forks the same history for commits the same pull requests and issues All That Remains the Same so we really aren't losing anything second I've spent a lot of time talking to the stack Blitz

**[0:09:39]** team about the future direction for bolt. DIY so far for autod Dev we have had complete creative freedom for what we Implement how we manage our community and also creating our road map and guiding the direction of the project and I'm super happy that I can confidently say that none of that is going to change

**[0:09:58]** we are still going to be able to completely keep our creative freedom the biggest reason I can say this is because the commercial bolt. new will be diverging from bolt. DIY which is actually a really good thing because what this means is we can Implement things for bolt. DIY without having to

**[0:10:14]** worry about if it makes sense for bolt. new as well because after all both projects have different Visions just like I was talking about with Eric the specific visions that we have for bolt. DIY so this just makes sense and at the same time we're still going to be

**[0:10:28]** sharing ideas between both . DIY and bolt. new so it's still a super mutually beneficial relationship third I'm not going to sugarcoat it it really does Sting that we are losing the name autod Dev which we have already started to build a reputation around as a community but now that this is going to be the

**[0:10:45]** official open source bolt. new it definitely makes sense to have bolt in the name and bolt. DIY really plays well into the goals of the project because DIY which stands for do-it-yourself really speaks well to being able to run this yourself test with your own local llms and we'll be implementing crazy

**[0:11:04]** amounts of features to really make this a Cutting Edge project lastly a lot more announcements for bolt. DIY and automator coming very soon here we're going to be partnering with stack Blitz for events we're going to be getting their open- Source experts involved in the project and a lot more so stay tuned

**[0:11:20]** for that I just hope that you are as excited as me for what this partnership means for bolt. DIY and all the things that we have stored in the future for this incredible project if you appreciated this content and you're looking forward to more things bolt. DIY I would really appreciate a like and a

**[0:11:35]** subscribe my channel is still going to keep being the place for all the big announcements for bolt. DIY and with that I will see you in the next video
