Simons: StackBlitz Shelved Bolt in Early 2024 Due to Model Limitations
Eric Simons · 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo) · Dec 2, 2024 · at 1:24
Eric Simons is the CEO and co-founder of StackBlitz and Bolt.new.
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“We had the idea for Bolt earlier this year, you know, we haven't really shared this too much publicly, but like, you know, we actually had tried to build it with some of those, you know, state of the art models back in January, you know, February, you can kind of imagine which, and they just like, weren't good enough to actually do the code generation where, where the code was accurate and, you know, as fast and whatever have you without a ton of like rag, but then there's like issues with that.”
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