Andrej Karpathy recently tweeted this:
“Input optional product
Don’t ask your users for input. Coming up with input is hard, and a barrier to use. Think of users as wanting to play. We have AI - predict the input! Design products into autonomous environments. Allow users to play by steering a bit.”
He’s right. I talk to people about AI every day, and most don’t realize all the ways they could use it. I’ve had an idea for an app for a long time. This post is putting it out in the world so someone else will build it.
I think LLMs will continue to revolutionize many industries and professions. However:
I’ve long thought that an ideal interface would feature profession-based “dashboards” of the most useful prompts for that profession or hobby.
Here are some examples:
Hacker’s Toolbox
Writer’s Toolbox
Developer’s Toolbox
High School Science Teacher’s Toolbox
For some profession’s like developers, custom apps like Cursor are probably much better. This is just to express the idea. I’m sure you can think of many other great examples.
Thanks for reading! So, who’s building this?
- Joseph
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