How can non-programmers build apps? Claude.ai, Replit.com, Bolt.new, V0.dev, Pythagora.ai and a few other tools write and deploy code just based on a prompt. You should try them out. But how do you build the skill? Is there a tutorial?" I’m often asked. No, I can’t find a tutorial, but here is my suggestion. You probably can’t guess what’s easy or hard. e.g. “Take my picture in black & white” is FAR easier than “When’s the next lunar eclipse? ...
How can non-programmers build apps? Claude.ai, Replit.com, Bolt.new, V0.dev, Pythagora.ai and a few other tools write and deploy code just based on a prompt. You should try them out. “But how do you build the skill? Is there a tutorial?” I’m often asked. No, I can’t find a tutorial, but here is my suggestion. You probably can’t guess what’s easy or hard. e.g. “Take my picture in black & white” is FAR easier than “When’s the next lunar eclipse?” So if the app doesn’t work, try 2-3 times, then GIVE UP! Note it down. Then try something else. (You’ll soon get a feel for what’s possible.) Revisit what failed 3-6 months later. It might suddenly become possible.
Arun Tangirala and I webinared on “AI in Education” yesterday." “(“Webinared” is not a word. But “verbing weirds language”.)” Mid-way, Jose Swan from the audience asked, “Can you summarise this session using an AI? There are SEVERAL tools you can use to summarize talks. Whisper for transcription, FFMpeg for keyframe extraction, #NotebookLM for podcast generation, text-embedding-3-small for topic modelling, and of course, any regular LLM include #ChatGPT for summarization or translation. ...
Arun Tangirala and I webinared on “AI in Education” yesterday. This post isn’t about the webinar, which went on for an hour and was good fun. This post isn’t for my preparation for the webinar, which happened frantically 15 minutes before it started. This post is about how I created the annotated talk at https://github.com/sanand0/ai-in-education-webinar (inspired by Simon Willison’s annotated presentations process) – a post-processing step that took ~3 hours – and the tools I used for this. ...