I like the idea of getting a lot of small examples of clever uses of LLM in the wild, especially by particularly clever/experimental people.
I recently made this post to try to gather some of the techniques common around this community.
One issue that I have though is that I’m really unsure what it looks like to promote neat ideas like these, outside of writing long papers or making semi-viral or at least [loved by a narrow community] projects.
The most obvious way is via X/Twitter. But this often requires building an X audience, which few people are good at. Occasionally particularly neat images/clips by new authors go viral, but it’s tough.
I’d also flag: - It’s getting cheaper to make web applications. - I think EA has seen more success in making blog posts and web apps than we did things like [presenting neat ideas in videos/tweets]. - Often, [simple custom applications] are pretty crucial for actually testing out an idea. You can generate wireframes, but this only tells you a very small amount.
I guess what I’m getting at is that I think [web applications] are likely a major part of the solution—but that we should favor experimenting with many small ones, rather than going all-in on 2-4 ideas or so.
Good points! I agree that actual prototyping is necessary to see if an idea works, and as a demo it can be far more convincing. Especially w/ the decreased cost of building web apps, leveraging them for fast demos of techniques seems valuable.
Happy to see thinking on this.
I like the idea of getting a lot of small examples of clever uses of LLM in the wild, especially by particularly clever/experimental people.
I recently made this post to try to gather some of the techniques common around this community.
One issue that I have though is that I’m really unsure what it looks like to promote neat ideas like these, outside of writing long papers or making semi-viral or at least [loved by a narrow community] projects.
The most obvious way is via X/Twitter. But this often requires building an X audience, which few people are good at. Occasionally particularly neat images/clips by new authors go viral, but it’s tough.
I’d also flag:
- It’s getting cheaper to make web applications.
- I think EA has seen more success in making blog posts and web apps than we did things like [presenting neat ideas in videos/tweets].
- Often, [simple custom applications] are pretty crucial for actually testing out an idea. You can generate wireframes, but this only tells you a very small amount.
I guess what I’m getting at is that I think [web applications] are likely a major part of the solution—but that we should favor experimenting with many small ones, rather than going all-in on 2-4 ideas or so.
Good points! I agree that actual prototyping is necessary to see if an idea works, and as a demo it can be far more convincing. Especially w/ the decreased cost of building web apps, leveraging them for fast demos of techniques seems valuable.