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Software today is mostly nouns; AI requires verbs for workflows and actions.
  • Static interfaces use nouns like text forms, buttons
  • AI introduces verbs like auto-complete, auto-suggest, gather info
  • Current tools lack ways to visually represent verbs on screen
Rafael ShadY Combinator00:00:50

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software of today or kind of like up until this point was mostly kind of like just clear things you can point out on the screen um that are you know kind of nouns like text forms drop downs buttons Etc and with AI what really changes is I think so much of the design of what AI does is kind of more verbs um it's more the workflows Auto Complete Auto suggest um go out and gather some information for me Etc and we don't really have the tooling yet to kind of draw verbs on the screen Rafael Shad
these are all verbs we're creating videos we have agents going out executing tasks and so much of it is how do you keep the user in the loop and in control while AI does its magic Host

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