The speaker expresses frustration with existing AI coding tools that generate non-functional code, leaving the debugging to the user. To address this, they introduce 'Microagent,' a novel AI tool that approaches code generation differently. Instead of directly producing code, Microagent first generates tests based on the user's prompt. It then iteratively refines the code until all generated tests pass. The speaker demonstrates Microagent's functionality by showing how it can create a function to convert an HTML string to a DOM element. The process involves the user describing the desired function, Microagent generating a test for it, and then the tool automatically running the test and updating the code until the test passes. The speaker concludes by mentioning that more information about Microagent is available on the builder.io blog.

Steve (Builder.io)

I've grown so tired of AI tools that generate code that would just never work and meticulously debugging all the problems myself until I realize that this is a solvable problem.

Typical AI tools work like this. They generate code and if it works that's great. When it doesn't that's your problem and that's where they stop.

So I made this thing called a microagent. It doesn't turn prompts into code. Instead it first turns prompts into tests and then iterates on the code until the tests pass.

You can try microagent yourself by just npm installing builder.io/micro-agent and then in any project run microagent in your terminal. Describe what you want like a function that converts an HTML string to a DOM node and then generate a test. Then we just let it run.

Microagent will run the test and generate new code or updated code to try to ultimately pass the test. And there we go. After just a couple iterations all the tests pass.

You can learn more about how to use microagent and what we're up to with it in my latest blog post on the builder.io blog.

Micro Agent, a New AI Coding Agent, in 60 Seconds

I've grown so tired of AI tools that
generate code that would just never work
and meticulously debugging all the
problems myself until I realize that
this is a solvable problem so typical AI
tools work like this they generate code
and if it works that's great and when it
doesn't that's your problem and that's
where they stop so I made this thing
called a microagent it doesn't turn
prompts into code instead it first turns
prompts into tests and then iterates on
the code until the test pass you can try
microagent Yourself by just npm
installing Builder doio micro- agent and
then just in any project run microagent
in your terminal describe what you want
like a function that converts an HTML
string to an A and then generate a test
then we just let it run microagent will
run the test and generate new code or
updated code to try to ultimately pass
the test and there we go after just a
couple iterations all the tests pass you
can learn more about how to use
microagent and what we're up to with it
in my latest blog post on the builder.
blog

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Micro Agent, a New AI Coding Agent, in 60 Seconds

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