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Exactly. I've spent the weekend trying my hand at making an AI assistant SaaS (I can't believe this doesn't exist yet!), and the biggest lesson I learnt is that
by stavros 1y ago
Exactly. I've spent the weekend trying my hand at making an AI assistant SaaS (I can't believe this doesn't exist yet!), and the biggest lesson I learnt is that I need to pay attention to what Claude Code does. I need to be specific in my instructions, and I need to review the output, because it will sometimes not know how to do things and it will never say "I don't know how to do that", it'll just endlessly write more and more code to try to appease you.
I think I'm faster with Claude Code overall, but that's because it's a tradeoff between "it makes me much faster at the stuff I'm not good at" and "it slows me down on the stuff I am good at". Maybe with better prompting skills, I'll be faster overall, but I'm definitely glad I don't have to write all the boilerplate yet again.
- audessuscest 1y ago> I've spent the weekend trying my hand at making an AI assistant SaaS (I can't believe this doesn't exist yet!) you mean another wrapper ?
- stavros 1y agoDo you know of any good ones?
- audessuscest 1y agothere's plainly, just run a search on perplexity or else. Most YC startup are AI wrapper in some sort...
- stavros 1y agoI haven't been able to find any AI personal assistants, please point me to any you may know.
- com2kid 1y agoThe entire market is focused on productivity ones that all have the same feature set, no real originality in the offerings IMHO. There are a lot of low hanging fruit that can be tackled. From helping people stay focused to managing household schedules. I honestly don't even think the product has to be SaSS, a 16GB VRAM GPU, or a well equipped MacBook, can do everything with locally.
- zaphirplane 1y agoThey keep asking for a specific recommendation and gets there are tons out there
- _pdp_ 1y ago> I've spent the weekend trying my hand at making an AI assistant SaaS (I can't believe this doesn't exist yet!), and the biggest lesson I learnt is that I need to pay attention to what Claude Code does. It is part of the learning curve discovering that making a non-deterministic system act deterministically based on some vague instructions is actually pretty difficult.
- stavros 1y agoI don't need it to act deterministically, I just need it to be correct.
- taormina 1y agoI mean, you need to deterministically produce correctness.
- _alternator_ 1y agoMost of us would be happy with the “probably approximately correct” standard for Claude code. ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_correct_learning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_corre...
- lelanthran 1y ago> Exactly. I've spent the weekend trying my hand at making an AI assistant SaaS (I can't believe this doesn't exist yet!) I'm not sure what this means; what exactly is an AI assistant SaaS? There are plenty of wrappers around LLMs that you can use, but I'm guessing that a wrapper around (for example) the ChatGPT or Claude API isn't what you had in mind, right? Can you explain?
- stavros 1y agoI mean an AI PA. Someone to manage my calendar, todos, personal documentation, emails, etc. Just something to help with general life admin.