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5 hours agoDo less with AI
Trying to do too much hinders productivity and leads to unfinished projects and feelings of inadequacy.
For decades in SAAS, products reduced ambiguity. Users supplied constrained inputs, and the system handled the output. It's never been Minority Report cinematic, but it was predictable. By providing predictable environments for manipulating data, users learned by moving things, adjusting variables - and the outcome emerged through interaction.
If you've signed up for Cursor to do some casual vibecoding, you'll probably find yourself disoriented by the command lines and acronyms that live throughout the software. Lu proposes he can solve this tension with his new project, something he's calling 'Baby Cursor.' Lu imagines Baby Cursor as the next generation of the company's software, which first launched in 2023.
LLMs have made AI assistants a standard feature across SaaS. AI assistants allow users to instantly retrieve information and interact with a system through text-based prompts. Mathias Biilmann, in his article " Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters," discusses two distinct approaches to building AI assistants. The Closed Approach involves a conversational assistant embedded directly within a single SaaS product. Examples include Zoom's AI Companion, Salesforce CRM's Einstein, and Microsoft's Copilot. The Open Approach involves external conversational assistants, such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini,
The normative form for interacting with what we think of as "AI" is something like this: there's a chat you type a question you wait for a few seconds you start seeing an answer. you start reading it you read or scan some more tens of seconds longer, while the rest of the response appears you maybe study the response in more detail you respond the loop continues
Using a pre-built template strategy: The Atlassian team realized that AI was often messing up core elements and not completely understanding complex commands. So they created a sort of "design system" for their AI led prototyping. Here they feed a page with pre-coded elements which AI doesn't change, but lets the tool work on other elements which are open to interpretation in a way.