Almost every SaaS app inside Vercel has now been replaced with a generated app or agent interface, deployed on Vercel.
Support, sales, marketing, PM, HR, dataviz, even design and video workflows. It’s shocking.
The SaaSpocalypse is both understated and overstated. Over because the key systems of record and storage are still there (Salesforce, Snowflake, etc.)
Understated because the software we are generating is more beautiful, personalized, and crucially, fits our business problems better.
We struggled for years to represent the health of a Vercel customer properly inside Salesforce. Too much data (trillions of consumption data points), the ontology of Vercel was a mismatch to the built-in assumptions, and the resulting UI was bizarre. We generated what we needed instead. When you don’t need a UI, you just ask an agent with natural language.
We’ve also been moving off legacy systems with poor, slow, outdated, and inconsistent APIs, as well as just dropping abstraction down to more traditional databases. UI is a function 𝑓 of data (always has been), and that 𝑓 is increasingly becoming the LLM.
如果说之前使用 AI 来编程以及处理工作,都在我能预期的范围之内,但今天晚上发生的一件事,确实让我体验到了一个非常明显的 AHA moment
晚上收拾完东西,我不打算再继续用电脑了,因为之前用 AI 经常搞得比较兴奋,晚上睡得比较晚。所以我打算看一会儿电视。看电视的时候,我突然想起在我的索尼电视上之前装的 YouTube 最近几个月显示无法启动,可能是因为版本号比较老。我想通过 Happy Coder 在手机上跟我电脑的终端聊天,希望它帮我下载几个 YouTube 的安装包,这样等我有空的时候,可以把安装包拷到 U 盘里,插到电视上重新安装 YouTube 客户端。
我(在手机上)把电视的一些系统版本号和 IP 地址拍照发给了他。他看了之后说,我的电脑和电视在同一个 IP 地址下,可以通过开发者调试模式直接控制电视,安装 YouTube,而安装包也是他自己从网上下载的。于是我按照他的指导,在电视上打开了开发者模式。接下来,一切都是他自动运行的。在我的电脑和电视上,成功装好了 YouTube 客户端。
也就是说,我通过手机遥控书房的电脑,让电脑又遥控客厅的电视,完成了这项操作。YouTube 客户端打不开的问题已经发生了几个月,我试过几种方案都没能解决。结果是因为突发奇想把问题告诉了他,他顺畅地给我解决了,这真的太令我吃惊了。
有人问我的小红书视频是不是用AI剪辑的,其实我的小红书视频都是手动剪的,因为我手动剪大概 10 分钟就能完成。没有必要让 AI 去做
为什么这么快就能完成?是因为我把工作做在了前置的部分。我在录制之前就列了我想讲述的东西,并且跟 AI 讨论后帮我写出了口播稿,然后我再对此做一些调整
相当于工作都在前置部分,后置只需要把中间的一些磕巴和空白的部分删掉就行了
正所谓垃圾进垃圾出,如果你做的东西比较混乱,你让 AI 去帮你整理的话,效果也不会太好
其实很多事情也都是这个样子,就像我的摄影师朋友给我分享她的工作流,她需要在拍摄前做好很多准备工作,这样才能够保证产出的片子是 OK 的,而不是靠后期来补救,先不说后期补救的工作量很大,而且很多是后期无法补救的
其实这也就是对工作流的安排的一个实际案例,这种再放大一点就是对整个系统架构的安排。在 AI 干活能力很强的时代,我们的核心竞争力其实就是如何安排他们,给他们当一个合格的领导
Summary reading format after building a knowledge system:
Match your own knowledge system with a book.
Which viewpoints are similar to mine?
Which viewpoints contradict mine?
What perspectives or fields have I not mentioned here?
Reorganize the book in this way.
The AI-generated output is not a one-size-fits-all summary but rather a personalized summary tailored to you.
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