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Tutorials are a great way to learn new tools and APIs but many times developers just want to go right into the code and see real examples that work. This week @ilja and I worked on a feature that generates demo repositories when creating tutorials with Mordisco 🧵
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LLMs are pretty good at generating code, but when it comes to generating a full working project, things get a bit more complicated. Vague prompts will push the LLM to make assumptions of what you are trying to build, what framework, tools, file structure, etc. you want to use.
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Our approach in this area has been to leave LLMs out of most decisions we can make ourselves.
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For instance, if we know you want to build a Discord bot, we will allow you to select a template for that type of project and make the LLM just generate the pieces of code that make your bot different and unique.
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We won’t cover every type of demo out there, but we can probably cover a good chunk of what the platforms we are working with want to generate. Are you building a script, a webhook, a bot, a webapp, a frame, a game? Each of these will have their own templates.
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We will use LLMs just for the actual piece of the code that makes your app different (a bot that translates casts, a webhook that notifies me every time someone mentions my brand, etc.)
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Having a set of templates for different tutorial types helps set expectations on the user side: you know the file structure, framework, and tools you’ll be using as well as how to run and deploy the code.
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You can even automatically host the demo to play with when generating the tutorial. Here’s an example of a repo we generated with Mordisco: https://github.com/mordiscoxyz/optimism-nft-minter
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Once we have the project created we use that as context to generate a tutorial around it. Using a different set of prompts we create a setup section that checks the tech you are using and gives you the required steps to run the tutorial.
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