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 git clone https://github.com/smol-ai/developer.git
 cd developer
 poetry install # install dependencies. pip install poetry if you need
+poetry shell #if you dont run this it will not work
 
 # run
 python main.py "a HTML/JS/CSS Tic Tac Toe Game" # defaults to gpt-4-0613