Bishops and bolt.new

I gave bolt.new a try and made an old puzzle from 7th guest with it. You can try the puzzle in the iframe below.

Bolt takes an interesting approach by offering a web container from the browser. Instead of wrapping around VSCode, which is what Copilot does, it tends offer a VSCode clone from inside the browser. Completely isolated environment, which is a good thing and it is also set up to spin up entire environments. It tends to focus on the frontend frameworks which is also where being able to set up a full environment is more important.

The project setup experience is very nice, you can also export quite easily, but I have found that it is harder to steer the LLM to update code the right way when there are way more files to worry about. It seems fine for some of the simple stuff, but the moment you try to generate something novel, like a video game experience, it can go downhill quite fast.

Worth playing with though!