Thank you for this Sam! I always ask myself why products can be so difficult to use, when they really are just tools that should help. Your hypothesis is interesting and leads me to think it can be generational too. So many AI startups are capitalizing on this, but don't necessarily have the wisdom or engineers with the experience when the full product lifecycle comes into question as their products mature. Great stuff!
One application I would like to see is the ability to pipe a live transcript into a Google Doc used for shared note taking by a small team. All of the transcript tools want to hold the transcript hostage and create a notes file that cannot be edited in place.
I have been sent links to Grok output. I am not sure, but I think one is allowed to continue a LLM conversation, but idk.
But unlike Google docs, the LLM needs various setup prompts, and they may be user-specific. This isn't like share-editing a document. If $ tokens are involved...gulp.
But when coding in pairs was a thing, sharing an LLM, especially remotely, would have been very useful. A group sharing a common LLM instance over a network, like a Zoom meeting, but everyone able to enter prompts or extend/refine outputs seems like a logical idea, rather than having a single person select inputs from a chat/Q&A box. Maybe Zoom will add this feature?
Thank you for this Sam! I always ask myself why products can be so difficult to use, when they really are just tools that should help. Your hypothesis is interesting and leads me to think it can be generational too. So many AI startups are capitalizing on this, but don't necessarily have the wisdom or engineers with the experience when the full product lifecycle comes into question as their products mature. Great stuff!
Yep, I am really feeling this lack of shared workspace currently.
One application I would like to see is the ability to pipe a live transcript into a Google Doc used for shared note taking by a small team. All of the transcript tools want to hold the transcript hostage and create a notes file that cannot be edited in place.
One good article that shows some imagination is https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds
I hadn't even thought of that. Good idea.
I have been sent links to Grok output. I am not sure, but I think one is allowed to continue a LLM conversation, but idk.
But unlike Google docs, the LLM needs various setup prompts, and they may be user-specific. This isn't like share-editing a document. If $ tokens are involved...gulp.
But when coding in pairs was a thing, sharing an LLM, especially remotely, would have been very useful. A group sharing a common LLM instance over a network, like a Zoom meeting, but everyone able to enter prompts or extend/refine outputs seems like a logical idea, rather than having a single person select inputs from a chat/Q&A box. Maybe Zoom will add this feature?