@illscience 2. Instinct takes my weight lifting workouts and goals —> meal prep recipes (based on my tastes and macros goals) —> grocery list / instacart
and manages each component as my goals change over time
@illscience +1 on consumer loops:
Two loops I have Instinct running for me on a cadence:
1. I have it send me voice memos of an information digest I’ve curated; news across tech, politics, finance, international, etc. + links to the sources gets sent to me every morning
@ElliotComite Many 'wow' moments throughout my lifetime of using this product.
Most recently: it got me 70mm The Odyssey tickets to a sold out show next week at Metreon. Constantly scoped until it saw a cancellation and booked it for me through my AMC account
Products with extensive/rich UIs lots of sliders, switches, menus, with no scripting support, and built on opaque, custom, binary formats are ngmi in the era of heavy human+AI collaboration.
If an LLM can't read the underlying representations and manipulate them and all of the related settings via scripting, then it also can't co-pilot your product with existing professionals and it doesn't allow vibe coding for the 100X more aspiring prosumers.
Example high risk (binary objects/artifacts, no text DSL): every Adobe product, DAWs, CAD/3D
Example medium-high risk (already partially text scriptable): Blender, Unity
Example medium-low risk (mostly but not entirely text already, some automation/plugins ecosystem): Excel
Example low risk (already just all text, lucky!): IDEs like VS Code, Figma, Jupyter, Obsidian, ...
AIs will get better and better at human UIUX (Operator and friends), but I suspect the products that attempt to exclusively wait for this future without trying to meet the technology halfway where it is today are not going to have a good time.
Great research on open-source by @Harvard:
- $4.15B invested in open-source generates $8.8T of value for companies (aka $1 invested in open-source = $2,000 of value created)
- Companies would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist
I suspect that these numbers and impact are even greater for AI than for software (would be great to study!)