Currently there are three AI projects going on. Without giving too much away right now, I’ll call these:
- KTX
- DXP
- SQA
KTX is my platform built in Laravel and I see it as a strong reliable backbone for everything I do going forward. I see it linking in with other AI services. It will serve the main web interface that eventually paying customers will be using.
Today’s main focus was on getting monthly subscriptions configured and setup along with Stripe integration. I’ve got this done but there’s plenty of QA, configuration and understanding I still want to do on it. But the basics are in place and eventually I will be able to take monthly payments from people. I kind of have an idea about what I can do with this in the short term.
DXP is a prebuilt platform that I am very grateful to have the opportunity to work with and help drive forward. Now’s not the time to delve too much into that, but past few days we’ve got it to a point where we can start taking it for a spin. A lot of it is around content generation, which is obviously highly competitive, but there’s quite a lot of good points to the platform and it would be naive to not investigate its potential.
Today I had a conversation about high level strategy around the DXP.
SQA is a potential third platform that a friend is prototyping using bolt.new and supabase. It’s amazing to see what no-code tools can output now. Time will tell how resilient the code is when it comes to actually being used by people but I can’t deny how cool it is to see something like bolt help someone with no programming experience helps get their ideas down into prototype form – not just UI, but actually functionality including Supabase.
Today I had a brief look at the progress on his prototype, and was amazed at how it was starting to come together.
Yes these tools help us make UIs faster, but are they just digging themselves into a hole faster? Time will tell. Programmers without AI are now at a huge disadvantage, and I know of one good friend who pretty much just directs an AI in everything now. But he has the experience and knowledge of how to structure an app, and WHY it is structured in such a way.
Anyway this is a conversation that’s going to drag on for a while. Many programmers will refuse to think AI is going to take their job, some will think it supplements their job, and others think it has fundamentally changed their job.
We can build UI and functionality far faster now … but it’s always been about making software that’s wonderful for humans to use. It’s about the design, not just aesthetically, but how the software itself is engineered to user flow. AI is the best pattern recognition tool out there, and it will recognise best practices; the good news is that humans will have intuition to point it in the right direction.
Hopefully anyway.
That’s it for today.
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