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i'd be interested to check it out

here's a take, I adapted this from someone on the notebookLM team on swyx's podcast

> the only way to build really impressive experiences in AI, is to find something right at the edge of the model's capability, and to get it right consistently.

So in order to build something very good / better than the rest, you will always benefit from being able to bring in every optimization you can.

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I think the building blocks of the most impressive experiences will come from choosing the exact right point to involve an LLM, the orchestration of the component pieces, and the user experience.

That's certainly what I found in games. The games which felt magic to play were never the ones with the best hand rolled engine.

The tools aren't there yet to ignore prompts, and you'll always need to drop down to raw prompting sometimes. I'm looking forward to a future where wrangling prompts is only needed for 1% of my system.

yeah. the issue is when you're baked into a tool stack/framework where you cant go customize in that 1% of cases. A lot of tools try to get the right abstractions where you can "customize everything you would want to" but they miss the mark in some cases

100%. You can't and shouldn't wrap every interaction. We need a new approach.