AMA: AI makes life easy
Hey Grapeviners, this is my second AMA, first was related to startup/entrepreneurship..
Last few months have been hyper productive because I am leveraging AI tools, and automating workflows heavily, also shipping AI features with multiple models as product manager at a SaaS startup (I code as well for POCs and have been a coder all my career before PM, so feel free to post technical questions as well)
I would love to answer or help or provide tips to make your life easy.
Let's gooo
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Hi @WrySpace18 Thanks for doing this AMA.
Have few questions:
Which AI tools you use the most?
Which tool is the best to buy the subscription?
Do you think GPT/LLM gives better results for one programming language but not for other? e.g. Python over Java
Do you think too much dependent on GPT/AI tools affect critical thinking? As people used to think/build from scratch but nowadays they just to brainstorming/prompting with LLMs
If AI automate most of the stuff then companies might ask to do more work and expect to achieve more in less time, how to manage time and workload in this AI proliferating world?
Do you think AI is bubble/vapourware considering billions of dollars of investments? Even if person/company doesn’t have product yet but investors keep investing in a hope to get the better returns
Which Al tools you use the most?
Claude - for research, brainstorming and content generation (mails etc)
Windsurf - To build proof of concepts and side projects
Zapier - for automations (it now has co-pilot that helps build workflows via prompts)
Deepseek - for better research with reasoning when required or if claude fails to provide me satisfactory answer
Which tool is the best to buy the subscription?
I currently have subscription for claude and windsurf - ofcourse you may go beyond and research for your usecases/domain, just don't fall prey to AI ecosystem, too much noise out there for each and everything there is AI - which in 90% cases you dont need.
Do you think GPT/LLM gives better results for one programming language but not for other? e.g. Python over Java
Haven't tried with multiple languages - highly possible - according to me python and javascript since most used and common give better results.
Do you think too much dependent on GPT/Al tools affect critical thinking? As people used to think/ build from scratch but nowadays they just to brainstorming/prompting with LLMS
Consider these tools to be 24*7 helping hands (copilots). It doesn't really matter, infact most boring, monotonous work gets offloaded and you can focus on better areas within the task or work. You hire interns and juniors for a reason, this is kindof similar.
If Al automate most of the stuff then companies might ask to do more work and expect to achieve more in less time, how to manage time and workload in this Al proliferating world?
Yes expectations have increased tremendously. But as we become AI native, humans will get used to the speed and expectations which now seem high will get normalised. Consider this as initial phase and hence there will be discomfortness humans adapt to the evolution.
Do you think Al is bubble/vapourware considering billions of dollars of investments? Even if person/ company doesn't have product yet but investors keep investing in a hope to get the better returns
AI isn't a bubble, it's real. The founder is the product when there is no product, they leverage their connections and pedigree. and investors always run behind hot stuff, nothing new.
Why don't you use perplexity for research?
Do you believe, in the long run, AI will make humans dumber, take away our cognitive abilities ? like social media taken our attention span.
Hi @WrySpace18, This is a great thread, thanks for it.
I am an experienced software engineer, who wants to create a simple product which uses AI to simplify some daily tasks for people. Can you please tell me which models give free API access to test out my idea? Also, can we finetune any LLMs for our specific input dataset?
Also My ultimate goal is to make money out of it, and I want to work alone for this. Any advices in this regard are most welcome.
- Start with API calls to LLM - openai (gpt), anthropic (claude), google (gemini) or providers like groq for open source models - gemini has free credits initially or you can simply load minimum of $5 onto openai to get started development
- Then to feed any external custom data use RAG
- If above doesn't work proceed ahead with fine-tune (in most cases this isn't required)
Making business is more of non tech efforts, and hence you need step out of comfort zone and build minimum product asap start reaching out to users through different medium - direct medium being running ads on insta or relevant platforms
ps: don't leave your job till you at least start making it equivalent to your salary, slow and steady wins the race
If one has 2k monthly budget for AI. What do you suggest? Mostly for coding and asking and
Asking some questions*
For coding you need to definitely get windsurf/cursor, if you are still not using it, you are missing out on the future (remember, this isn't just auto complete, it understands context of whole code base and makes changes accordingly).
Asking other general questions can be done through free gpt/claude or deepseek.
Decide on what you do on a day-to-day basis at your work and then purchase either the AI code editor or pro chat subscription
I have been using ChatGPT Premium for quite some time now. Why do you think Claude is the better option?
Claude understands the context really well and the response (including data) is better too, I was a pro user of ChatGPT for almost 6 months, but switched.
The only disadvantage is claude doesn't have web access (they are purposely doing it to keep their base data clean and for security reasons)
But even then u have to pay for it
Just a quick suggestion.
If you’re a no code person, I would seriously suggest you folks to look at lovable.dev
I have used it for quite some projects and feel it’s very neat if you’re able to give better prompts and add Knowledge base for your project.
Apart from it bolt.new is also good.
I feel that the combination of Cursor and Lovable is the best!!
Thanks for the suggestion. Have you primarily used lovable only for web dev projects?
do you think AI will take the jobs of coders and software developers and they have to search or find other jobs for their survival?
Yes and no
Yes, if you show resistance to changes happening around.
No, if you adapt steadily and focus on improving fundamentals and people skills.
How do you make a model with company confidential details that cannot never be shared outside the organisation?? What platform can be used?
Self Host the Vector Database (Ex. Milvus) Self host open-source Embedding and LLM models (Choose the model with less parameters to cost effectively run on your server)
Stitch altogether with RAG architecture.
Hi @WrySpace18 I’ve created quite a few niche products using AI. I feel like some of them can work really well as a SaaS product. But I have zero knowledge on how to market and sell these products. Any advice?
