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Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:55 Pete Koomen And, and the example that I used at the time was the, the kind of email writer that, uh, that the Gmail, uh,
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:40 Pete Koomen The example that I chose in my essay, uh, was to pick on the integration that the Gmail team built between their AI model, Gemini, and Gmail's, uh, interface that, uh, this is a little draft writing agent that can create 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:20 Pete Koomen The feature that I chose as my example was this little draft writing agent that shows up in the Gmail interface and
- ▶ 5:02 Pete Koomen Well, what's actually happening under the hood when I ask this Gmail agent for a draft is that this Gmail agent, this little UI, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:07 Pete Koomen And so just to illustrate what's possible, let's imagine that Gmail allowed me to not only see, but edit this system prompt for myself. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:13 Pete Koomen And so, going back to your question, why did the Gmail team hide, decide to hide this system prompt away? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:12 Pete Koomen I think the, the deepest problem here is that when the, when the Gmail team set out to build this, they kind of asked, how can we slot AI into the Gmail application? 2 times in the scene