Sahil Lavingia: belief

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…Awesome. Yeah, I mean, so I think the coolest thing about all this AI stuff is that you get to spend more time doing what you really enjoy, which to me, and I think you as well, like solving customer problems. And with this product that we build, it's called Flexile. And you can think of it like a store deal, but built specifically for the way that we run the business, which is like hiring a bunch of people, a lot of project-based, a lot of hourly-based, monthly retainers, all sorts of different types of people, remote, in-person, full-time, let them choose their equity split, manage your cap table, all of that stuff in the same product. And one of the reasons I love AI is that I can basically just use the product and instead of running into some issue and being like, Hey, engineer, can you go solve this? And then spending all this time, like writing up a spec, you know, then putting that into, you know, sending that to a designer, that designer will then do like tomorrow or the next day, we'll then do a mock, there'll be some back and forth. And then it will go to like next week on Monday, it'll go to an engineer. they may have some questions that goes back to the desire. And by the time it shifts, you know, it makes it to production, even for something relatively trivial, you know, it's been two weeks or something, right? And so like, can you do something that used to take two weeks in two hours? And that's like a 40 times speed increase. So that's kind of like the number that I have in my head generally, like what's like the most optimistic case, if you kind of remove all the bottlenecks, something that would take 40 hours would take one hour. And that's Pretty awesome. So even in this form, like pretty simple. And I built the software. So I'm like, you know, I'm not like saying, oh, it's so terrible. But there's always room to improve. And even on this one screen, which is the contractor invitation page, There's already a couple things that I noticed that aren't big enough to really ask someone to do. Everyone's busy. They have their own stuff that they're working on. But there are a few things that I noticed. For example, the date picker is kind of terrible. It just uses the native date picker. It's not humanized. You can't type in next Monday or this Monday or have a nice date picker. If you go to ShadCN... And this is the beauty of open source is, you know, and why AI is so good is there's a lot of open source. You get like a nice date picker like this, right? It's like nicely humanized and you can do all sorts of cool stuff. So that's like one thing I noticed that I think is like a really good candidate for this. I would go straight to Devin. I would, you know, it's, it's, it doesn't really re really need that much scoping. It's kind of just like replace date widget, you know, date picker in contractor invitation screen with a chat CN date picker. We might as well. I mean, the cool thing with Devin is you can like, ping. It's kind of just like replace date widget, you know, date picker in contractor invitation screen with a chat CN date picker. We might as well. I mean, the cool thing with Devin is you can like, that do that while you do other stuff. So there's, there's no risk really. So I can select the Flexile repo and, you know, say for this specific page, like update the date picker from the browser native, you know, input to shad CN import if required. I've never actually used this button, but again, this is a good example. Like even somebody who's using this stuff, like you have to constantly like up your game to learn more. You know, basically, I think there should be really like a rich text like this, like you can just type into it and you could type in like next Monday, I think Resend at a cool demo like this, where they have more like a natural language, something like this. And you could type in, in one hour tomorrow at 9am, these sorts of things. Or Slack actually has something similar, where if you go into a canvas, This is our roadmap if you type in Thursday. This is what I think would be really cool. I'm going to have Devon do multiple versions and then we can take a look at how far it got on them. But this is how I would generally work is I would just take these forms and say, build this form. So you're putting into V0, you know, use this form using the very descriptive great requirements. Magical. And then you're going to use V0 to get a prototype?…

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