Hi all - Jeremy Howard from Answer.AI here. Really excited to share with you all what we've learned over the past year about how to work with AI in a way that's entirely human-centered.

Whilst most folks seem focused on how to remove humans from the loop entirely and make AIs do all the work, we've concentrated 100% on how to make humans part of the loop in a way that makes us more and more capable and engaged.

I've enjoyed building and using our tool, "solveit", for the last year, and do basically all my coding, writing, reading, research, etc in it nowadays. I use small fast iterative steps and work to maximize my learning at each step.

Hey everyone, Eric Ries here. solveit is the AI environment I personally have been using every day for months, not just for code but for writing and research, too.

it’s solved all the problems and frustrations I’ve had with both vibecoding and the limitations of the chatbot interface for doing deep work that requires concentration + the ability to understand the artifacts you are producing

and, as a special bonus, people in this course will get a sneak preview of the new book I’m working on. we’re going to use it both to teach some of the concepts from it (on how to create mission-driven long-term companies) and how to use solveit for longform writing projects

happy to answer any questions here, for folks that want to learn more,

Eric

I see a $400 price tag on a five week course. If it takes 5 weeks to learn how to use your product, I am skeptical that it has legs.

Side note: supposedly this is the first cohort of this course, so how do you already have testimonials?

So the antidote to AI fatigue is... more AI?

I read most of this before understanding that I wasn't reading about some new agent or IDE or something, I was reading a sales pitch for a coding course for would-be vibe coders, with AI training wheels in the form of ... a dialog box to talk to an LLM.

I should have noticed the camp counselor / cultish / tedx vibes, throwin around REPL and feedback loops. I feel that it's somewhat misleading to present this as some amazing self-building software or server platform here, and bury the lede that what's being sold is an experimental tutoring method. It's almost like those "I built an AI agent that builds AI agents" posts, only instead of selling the sixty lines of python, it's selling a set of lectures that goes with them.

I'm sure I'm not the only one confused by this, but can you give details on why you decided that a course was necessary to learn this new way of working with AI?

Maybe it's more of a alpha thing, but with millions using chatbots every day, was it not possible to develop a UI?

It's not just about adoption, who has the time to spend 5 weeks learning a new tool? Particularly when you're competing with the existing tools?

dang. thought this was a service for people tired of reading about AI.

Without the intent of hijacking whatever it is you are trying to achieve: I've found the best antidote to the AI-fatigue is to rely less on it. There is no way I am going to spend my day, or my employees day for that matter in reviewing thousands of LoC of bad AI-slop. In my teams we've dialed it back to just consulting mode and asking suggestions,e.g. replacement for good old search, because once you ask the GenAI to write a few thousands of LoC for you, you're also abandoning a lot architecture decisions (which you then have to figure out ad-hoc again, when you do the review of the slop, or at the latest when you notice the "smart" tool has yet again put a secret in plaintext or something similar). So yeah, if you have the so-called AI-fatigue, just use less of the so-called AI.

One thing I loved about the first solveit course was how create the community is. It goes back to fast.ai too, but everyone is super kind, smart, and has diverse backgrounds.

We've captured a slice of that on our main site. Testimonials: https://solve.it.com/testimonials Some blog posts: https://solve.it.com/#testimonials on the main page

And on of the students even made a project dashboard page showcasing all the things everyone has built! https://solveit-project-showcase.pla.sh/

He even blogged about it : ) https://himalayanhacker.substack.com/p/how-i-built-solve-it-...

I've been using SolveIt for about a month and going through the previous cohort content. It's really hard to not to try to vomit out solutions and to go about something in a methodical way. It makes your work visible, maintainable and usable by others (and frankly yourself). It takes a lot of practice, but it is very much intangible and always in the process of becoming. If you want to focus on solving pretty much any problem, and a path to using AI effectively in any endeavor, then this is a really fulfilling path. You will find that there is more magic in AI than you suspect. Many praises to Jeremy and Johno and the SolveIt team. But don't take my word for it. I'm a fresh convert. Go check it out for yourself. It is subtle and requires nuance, so not for everyone.