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ChatDev

MetaGPT's sibling from 2023, built by researchers from Dalian University of Technology, Beijing and Brown. It models a "virtual software company" as a waterfall: design, coding, testing, documentation, with programmer, reviewer and tester agents talking through each phase. The headline claim from the paper was a whole small program in under seven minutes for under a dollar.

MetaGPT's own comparison found ChatDev used about twice as many tokens per line of code and needed more human fixes afterward, which matches the general lesson: chat between roles is cheap to set up and expensive to trust.

Good fit if: you want a readable research baseline. Not something to run production work through.

https://www.pragmaticcoders.com/resources/ai-developer-tools
https://www.alphaxiv.org/overview/2308.00352

#ai #agents #softwarefactory