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> I built ThreadQuilt because I was tired of wading through endless noise to find meaningful discussions. With ThreadQuilt, you get a cleaner, more focused expe

> I built ThreadQuilt because I was tired of wading through endless noise to find meaningful discussions. With ThreadQuilt, you get a cleaner, more focused experience that highlights the best parts of the web's conversations. I applaud your effort. I’ll ask the obvious question around the strongly opinionated approach of not leveraging “AI”. Would you like to expand on what that means to you? I would imagine that some form of intelligence could also help with noise reduction but maybe you considered it and decided otherwise.

andes314 2y ago
To be honest, I would rather use AI, because it would be more fun and cooler to work with. However, I have a track record of making things no one wants, so I really wanted to focus on what I thought would be more popular. Given I keep hearing that AI has "ruined" Google and other platforms, I figured it would be a good decision to not only cut it out from this but to emphasize it as a "marketing" strategy. I am absolutely not opposed to it, and if I can convince myself that integrating AI would be moreso "what people want" then I would integrate it (and have more fun).
- andenacitelli 2y ago
  “AI” (as absurdly broad of a term as it is) has legitimate use case. It isn’t JUST hype. However, because of the buzz, it’s being shoehorned into so many places it really just isn’t the proper fit for, and it’s hard to figure it where. However, there ARE plenty of areas it IS the right fit for. Lots of “fuzzy” systems that would struggle to be rule-based and generalizable benefit hugely from LLMs and other fuzzy / intentionally broadly scoped tooling. Source — I work at a “chat with your data” startup, and our product just categorically wouldn’t be worthwhile if the above weren’t true :)

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> I built ThreadQuilt because I was tired of wading through endless noise to find meaningful discussions. With ThreadQuilt, you get a cleaner, more focused expe

by curious_cat_163 2y ago

andes314 2y ago
To be honest, I would rather use AI, because it would be more fun and cooler to work with. However, I have a track record of making things no one wants, so I really wanted to focus on what I thought would be more popular. Given I keep hearing that AI has "ruined" Google and other platforms, I figured it would be a good decision to not only cut it out from this but to emphasize it as a "marketing" strategy. I am absolutely not opposed to it, and if I can convince myself that integrating AI would be moreso "what people want" then I would integrate it (and have more fun).
- andenacitelli 2y ago
  “AI” (as absurdly broad of a term as it is) has legitimate use case. It isn’t JUST hype. However, because of the buzz, it’s being shoehorned into so many places it really just isn’t the proper fit for, and it’s hard to figure it where. However, there ARE plenty of areas it IS the right fit for. Lots of “fuzzy” systems that would struggle to be rule-based and generalizable benefit hugely from LLMs and other fuzzy / intentionally broadly scoped tooling. Source — I work at a “chat with your data” startup, and our product just categorically wouldn’t be worthwhile if the above weren’t true :)