AI

I’ve built a chrome extension only with AI tools. I used Cursor as my primary code editing IDE and sometimes switched to VS Code with Github Copilot. With cursor, I mostly relied on Antrophics Claude 3.7 . Overall, my general assumption was confirmed that most models only help for smaller task and aren’t (yet) capable of understanding overall concepts of an application. For me, these tools are helpful to write some boilerplate code, rename or refactor some function or write simple scripts without any side effects.

Meta has announced the release of its Meta AI app. This is a trend all of these LLM players are doing. I’d expect it generates more traffic since it’s easier for a user to access ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. via its companion app instead of using the web interface. Also, from a user perspective it’s easier to upload a photo from your camera roll and using your smartphone’s microphone as well feels more natural.

TechCrunsh reports that nate.tech fooled their investors by saying they’re using AI and instead used a call center in the Philippines. From their website it looks like you could let nate buy things by sharing (?) the url with the nate app. Maybe there was also a chatbot integration. This all reminds me of GoButler, a german company that had it’s hype around 2015. You could send them a text message and they would do everything for you. Booking a flight, ordering food, planing your next holiday. They even expanded their business to NYC but closed their doors in Germany in 2016. It’s interesting how all the people are always trying similiar things. This time with “AI” (or a Philippines call center). GoButler still has their german instagram account available. And you can buy the gobutler.de domain for around 2000€.