The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q When you, when you were creating, let's say, the nano banana photo selfie thing, did you prompt vZero with the reference image of Instagram, or were you plainly using English and just explaining what you wanted?

A I think it was all English in this case, um, which kind of speaks to like, there is one defining characteristic that I do want to point out is that you have to be able to visualize things in your head. And if not in your head, like you have to have some close reference so that you can guide this system. Right. And so all of this that you're looking at, it's just maybe paying more attention to the details, right? Like if you open the, if you open the camera app, Um, there is subtleties to the border. There's subtleties to the background. There's subtleties to the gradient. I, another big thing that it might, might seem small, but it's actually freaking huge is that a few of the initial passes were overly complicated. So there was a process of trimming stuff down and deleting. If I could actually give one lasting piece of advice to everybody, including my own team is always in myself, it's always delete, delete, delete, delete. There should be as few buttons, links, et cetera, as possible on, on any given product. And I think we kind of nailed that here because like, how much, how much attention can people give you, right? Like five seconds, 10 seconds. Another not minor thing is this is actually a very good, um, mobile product. So by having less UI, you are almost forcing yourself to have a good mobile product. What's very interesting about this little app, if you go to it, vzer…

AI assessment note: “I think it was all English in this case”

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Q How long did that take you from start to finish?

A So, uh, it was lunchtime here in SF. By the way, you know, what's funny about the importance of, and by the way, this is not just me patting myself on the back. Cause like, I have a lot of bad ideas. Like you, you should see my team, my chats with my DevRel team. But I do think it's in the age of AI, and I think obviously this is going to resonate with you preaching to the choir. The value of ideas is pretty freaking significant. Why? Because I pitched this idea to a lot of people and like, they were like, ah, I don't know what you're talking about. Like, oh, that's cool. You're a CEO. I'm not going to, I know you, but like, I'm not going to be mean, but like a lot of people kind of ignored it. But the day that we're at that launch and the, and, and I saw that the, the lens of the iPhone had just gotten worse and whatever, I pitched it hard. I was like, guys, we have to actually do this. And so, you know, most of the process was actually downloading it into the prompt. And so there's a lot of debate about like, is prompt engineering a thing and whatever. I'll say it again. If you have a vision in your head and if you're able to explain it in English, amazing things can happen. So I think it was mostly, so I explained it to my colleague and I told him, and in the beginning, he first didn't get me. So it goes back again to like, sometimes you might get frustrated with AI, but, bu…

AI assessment note: “So, uh, it was lunchtime here in SF. By the way, you know, what's funny”

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