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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @justin_shocknet 12h \ on: What's the Best Consumer Application of AI? AI
Most of these things are just algorithms
So that means the correct answer is an interface for algorithms
I agree.
I'm just more curious to know it from the angle of consumers or to say it in other terms what's the best use case of AI for consumers?
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The unified interface seems to be it, since a chat bot can manipulate APIs for literally anything, it's becomes the chat bot expands access to otherwise niche algos that couldn't stand alone as there own tool
It's the interface for programs the same way search engines are for the web
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One of the lessons I learned from making the pylint MCP is that its more efficient to just run pylint and feed the results to an LLM than it is to make it make the call. And I expect that letting an LLM write the query parameters to an API call but then executing the call programmatically is more efficient too.
The trick right now if you don't know how to code is to let the LLM write the code to call the API, and integrate it with calling the LLM and then the API, and then execute that chain.
If you know how to code, just code it. Much faster.
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Yea things like gpt, cursor and Gemini are doing a lot of tricks behind the scenes to make so much functionality available in their bots
I think MCP will eventually enable similarly useful bots to be more distributed and open, but that still has to be built brick by brick
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Here's what I think is useful in MCP today for most people: search & apply. Like the old school google one-shot ("I'm feeling lucky" button) but with a cognitive part in the middle to determine the top result by actually reading the link.
So you let
<chat agent> query the search engine, then let <search ranking agent> rank the results properly (zhe algo is awfully good at determining relevance, to my surprise and dismay) and then let <chat agent but without memory> answer the original question based on the provided results.The difference between what current search engines do in their LLM suggestion top box and this is that they don't read the linked content, but the indexed meta tags. Which is why i really like my news summarizer because it gives meaningful summaries rather than SEO-gameable results.
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