Solveit is a "Dialog Engineering" web application for interactive development. Unlike ChatGPT (pure chat) or Jupyter (pure code), Solveit combines three message types in one workspace: code execution, markdown notes, and AI prompts. Users build solutions incrementally—writing a few lines, understanding them, then continuing—rather than generating large code blocks.
The AI sees the full dialog context (code, outputs, notes, prompts) when responding -- but only those ABOVE the current message. Users can edit any message at any time, including AI responses—the dialog is a living document, not an append-only log.
The dialog is a running ipykernel instance. A "dialog" is like a "Jupyter notebook", and uses a compatible ipynb file format, but provides a superset of functionality (in particular, "prompt messages"). A "message" is like a "Jupyter cell", with additional attributes stored as ipynb cell metadata. Most standard jupyter functionality is supported (including cell