Preceden
This week consisted of Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I getting TimelineGPT (the AI content generator we’re working on) from 80% ready to ship to 98%. Lots of small, boring tasks like:
- Figuring out the UX after users click the “Add to Timeline” button in the suggestions dialog. Do we close the dialog? Keep it open? If we keep it open, do we uncheck the suggestions they just added? Hide them completely?
- Sometimes GPT returns 1 suggestion for a topic, other times 30. When it returns just 1, should Preceden automatically try again to generate more? But then when you combine the results, there can be duplicate suggestions, but not exactly identical, so how do you figure out how to make the final list unique?
- Adding lots of unit tests to ensure everything works as intended and edge cases are handled.
- Integrating into OpenAI’s moderation endpoint so users can’t try generating timelines for inappropriate topics.
- Setting up attribution so I can tell which new customers upgraded after using the suggestions tool (which will be important since using the GPT API will cost money, and I’ll need to carefully monitor the ROI of this tool).
- Debugging a weird bug that stemmed from using Ruby’s AASM gem with Delayed Job.
Hopefully can launch the v1 early next week, rolling it out to 25% of users and then monitoring costs and usage before ramping it up to 100% within a week or two.
Plus normal support and maintenance like fixing this lovely bug that has probably lost me a bit of money over the years:
LearnGPT EmergentMind
I renamed LearnGPT to EmergentMind for reasons outlined in this post. Feels like the right move long term.
Other things:
- Last week Andrej Karpathy, one of the leading AI educators in the world, demoed LearnGPT in the first 2 minutes of his recent intro to GPT lecture on YouTube. That explains the traffic spike 📈.
- Milan and I are working on a big redesign to the site which should ship late next week or early the following week. You’ll get to see the difference between what I can do as a developer who is adequate at design and what a talented designer is capable of 🌈.
- I started an EmergentMind Discord which is up to 13 people. I definitely feel like an old man though figuring out how to use Discord. At the moment, I’m just sharing product updates in there. TBD what it winds up being long term.
- Various updates to EmergentMind: adding an account page so users can manage their account, including deleting it if they choose, as well as changing their password and email (for users that signed up via email and password and not Google OAuth). Also added an “About” field there which is displayed on new profile pages for EmergentMind users. Here’s mine. Not a bad v1 profile page, but looking forward to Milan redesigning it in the future.
- Spent some time exploring the prompt engineering space, which is the tentative direction I’m taking the site. There are already a lot of tools like EveryPrompt and some educational sites like LearnPrompting.org that EmergentMind may or may not wind up competing with. We will see.
Thanks for following along! 🙇♂️
Matt Mazur 