Using our brains to leverage AI
A couple of days ago, I saw a very interesting newspaper article about how the usage of ChatGpt and its effects our thinking and our memory. In a nutshell, a study was compairing two groups that were writing an essay. One was using the help of ChatGpt for the research, structure and the other group did it without. They weren't so interested in the final result but rather in what the authors remembered of their text. The funny thing is that people who used AI hardly remembered anything of what they had produced.
I can quite concur with that. Often when I'm too lazy to think about something, I tend to ask AI to provide an answer. So is AI becoming the latest tool to feed our laziness and make our lives easier?
Is AI here to replace our brain?
Since I'm researching AI quite a lot recently, I have seen a ton of videos on youtube and tiktok where the main subject was to automate content creation and workflows with AI. The idea is to scrap the most successful videos of the moment, copy the content, generate automatically new videos and post them on autopilot. You can find an increasing amount of such content nowadays and also content that is produced like that on autopilot. What I find interesting is that people want to outsource the work to AI and get rich with it.
What I realised however, is that AI can come up with ideas but not all of them will be good ones and not all of them will be successful even if we expressively ask ChatGpt that they should go viral. Trusting that AI will generate the masterpiece and the followers for you is still an illusion and I think that we still need to think. The more we think, the more we can leverage the power of AI.
Using your brain combined with AI is the golden nugget
I've been trying to build some tools with AI through vibe coding and I also generated some videos with images and videos generated by AI. However, I've realised that when I was using my brain the most, the result was the best. So before even dealing with AI, when I tried to create a webpage or app, I started to make a clear plan of what I wanted the app to do. I thought about all the interactions, the databases, the tools I would use, the processes. I often wrote a summary of several pages for a project. I then let it ripe during a day or two before I went back to it. Only then, did I ask AI to help me brainstorm the idea, to figure out what would be adequate framework or process to use. Once everything was in place, I asked AI to generate a product requirement document (PRD). This would outline all the aspects of the project like the languages that would be used, the frameworks, the logic, the front-end, the back-end, etc. Once I was happy with this PRD, I entered it as a reference for my vibe coding and I asked the program to propose a step by step plan to follow to build this up. By proceeding like that, I managed to generate a really functional product in several cases.
I did the same for my videos. I first outlined the idea of my story. Then I thought about the characters, the setting and how things would unfold. I then wrote a script with scenes, voice over and camera angles. Once I had this together, I started to use AI to generate the first frames and then to animate the scenes. Even if my videos were quite short, the result is something that I'm quite proud if.
In my opinion, AI is not here to do the thinking for us. However, AI can help us to create something that before we didn't have the tools to do. I'm no coder but I managed to generate an app with 2000 lines of code that does exactly what I want. I'm no video maker but I managed to make a couple of videos that tell a real story. If we are willing to use our brain, I believe that AI can leverage our capacities...
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STOPI thought your title should be using AI to leverage our brains !BBH
haha, maybe that would have been the better way around.
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That's very good, particularly since, if the code isn't modular, updating anything in a 2k lines of code project would likely hit the daily limit on most well-known free models out there. You seem to have developed a process that works for you. That's the important part!
I built an app using google sheets and app scripts for my offline business. It allows me to simplify and speed up my workflow. Something that I wanted to do for about 10 years and tried several time and always hit a barrier somewhere that prevented me from achieving it. Thanks to AI, I've managed to build something that works:-). I mainly use gemini for doing it. I also found an open source version or cursor that allows me to jump from one model to the next once the free calls are over :-).
I found Claude best for writing and updating full blocks of code (their interface is even better when you paste code it includes it much like an attachment, rather than a wall of text in the prompt). But I don't think it's best at step-by-step guiding you through changes. I pretty much used all of them to escape the daily limit.
But you still need to provide context when you switch from model to model, right? Or they resubmit the prompt to the next model automatically?
I also like Claude but the free calls are quickly gone :-).
What I do is to actually save the PRD and step-by-step as txt files within the project. Then I call them as context resource when I start with a new model.
You know you can have multiple sessions, right? When a session ends, you can open a clean one. Eventually you run out of free prompts, but not as quickly. You need to be strategic about it. Usually I break things down and follow different threads in different models.
That's a good idea, but won't work if the project gets bigger, because you'll run out of context (I ran into an issue that I couldn't complete 1 prompt before I got to the daily limit - very tough to get out of that situation: I used partial responses and then asked more targeted questions to other models or different sessions while removing the parts that I fixed from the input). You need to break it down into pieces and only work onto the ones that don't interact with each other when the project gets bigger.
I completely agree with you that the combination of human thought and AI is what really makes the difference.
AI can be an incredibly powerful tool, but it's no substitute for our creativity or analytical skills.
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I agree that you should also use your brain. ChatGPT is just a tool, and it helps, but it isn't always correct. You have to understand that it can also make mistakes.
Most of human inventions paradoxically make us more lazy, less knowledgeable and more stupid. It's not different with AI. However, if we use the tool wisely, it can help us to get to new spheres.
It is pretty obvious (to me at least) when AI is used blindly. However, AI has also proved to be an excellent teacher of sorts in teaching me to understand concepts and thought flows. I guess at the end of the day, it depends on the individual.
I totally agree with that. The fact that you can start on a project assisted with a competent helper is quite powerful.
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