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Summary

Calix, a sophomore at USC Iovine & Young Academy, developed Dream, an AI-driven no-code tool designed to help both technical and non-technical users create fully functional web apps and components using natural language. During a 10-week hacker residency at LangChain, Calix focused on enhancing Dream's performance, extensibility, and generation quality by addressing challenges such as user experience and custom integrations. He experimented with different user interaction methods, ultimately settling on a survey-based approach to guide users in articulating their project requirements, and incorporated Claude 2 to improve the handling of custom API integrations. A significant shift involved migrating from HTML/JS to React for better efficiency and versatility, supported by LangChain's guidance. Calix also refined the prompting strategy inspired by open-source projects, enhancing Dream's design flexibility. Despite the challenges of creating an intuitive interface for code generation, Calix remains committed to advancing Dream as a platform to empower non-technical users in software development.