ChatDev (Communicative Agents for Software Development)
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ChatDev is a virtual chat-powered software company where LLM agents take on roles in a waterfall-model dev process.
Waterfall mirroring: LLM agents play roles (CEO, CTO, programmer, reviewer, tester) in a simulated waterfall software-development process, coordinating through chat.
End-to-end pipeline: Completes the entire software-development lifecycle from requirements to testing, producing working software artifacts.
Under $1, under 7 minutes: Generates full software projects in under 7 minutes for less than $1 of API cost - striking cost-efficiency for agent-based development.
Multi-agent coordination: Demonstrates that simple role-based multi-agent coordination can produce coherent, non-trivial software without heavy scaffolding.
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