Today I’m launching Swipe -- a new way to steer image models.
The idea is simple – start with a prompt, swipe left / right to steer the model towards what you’re thinking of. https://t.co/zG3iQ7NXGR
for any productivity software, the only good use case for ai is lightweight, overridable autosuggests
if you try to add gen ai slop to my work tools, i will fight you
(early proto i whipped up for linear projects a week ago) https://t.co/7Bc4AvESiM
Personally, I see at least 2 "types" of websites. In short: I am for AI for "getting information quickly," against it for "consolidating the internet landscape."
1. "Get stuff done/get information quickly." Where efficiency is key. Get from A→B as fast as possible. "What does this error code mean?" would be an example.... See more
This brings me to my core thesis: The inconvenience and inferior data transfer speeds of conversational interfaces make them an unlikely replacement for existing computing paradigms – but what if they complement them?
This takes me to a second problem, though. Excel isn’t just giving suggestions - those tiles are documents, and documents are the start of a process, not an answer. You can see what you’ve built and what it’s doing, and how far you’ve got. The same sense of creation as process applies to Photoshop, Ableton or Powerpoint, or even a simple text... See more
Chat is overrated as a user experience.
Good visualization, information hierarchy, copy, call to actions is underrated as a user experience.
Multiply all of these effects by 10X when you have the power of an LLM involved. Start with great UX, not a chatbot.