SWswyx·Aug 20, 2023Recommendation phrase
forgot to mention - I've been harboring a mild thesis I call "API wrappers < APP wrappers" - in other words, yeah most of the best AI apps are going to be wrappers of closed models anyway, but SOTA features and experience are usually released in the full webapp long before an API is made available for them. This dates as far back as the launch of ChatGPT itself when the likes of Dan Gross were writing ChatGPT Webapp proxies since no API was available (https://github.com/danielgross/whatsapp-gpt). I think this thesis will stand for at least a few years, thats just how the economics of SOTA LLMs is going to work out.
re: naming - I've been going with an understated normcore theme for our projects, but our friends took to calling it like a "God View" overseeing all the chat apps. we did a vote on our team and "GodMode" won. I threw in a lit
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tle shout out to Small Gods, my favorite Terry Pratchett book. It really is like having a bunch of tiny gods living in your laptop responding to your every query.