Amelia Wattenberger 🪷

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@Wattenberger

design, AI, web dev, data viz, tools for thought

✨ @shv, previously R&D @GitHubNext, design @AdeptAILabs

🍃 Oakland wattenberger.com Joined January 2013

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Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger Nov 5

Intent has been my daily driver for over a year now (!) built around the belief that we should work in spaces, not chat threads

we keep working on it for the sole reason that it's our favorite way to code.

- free, open source, bring your own agents
- run it anywhere (mac, windows, linux, any remote, super sleek mobile apps)
- a superset of native agent capabilities by giving them some new primitives (custom hooks, browser tools, freeform notes, &c)
- lots of features dedicated to making it easy to focus on an individual task, and also easy to multitask across 50+ workspaces (ask me how I know)

plus lots of features I'm excited about coming up:
- multiplayer is almost baked
- easy access notch/dock
- stay tuned for more :)

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Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger Oct 30

really loving this notch extension we're adding to Intent

not having to open the full app to give feedback feels magical

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Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger Oct 6

we need ways to make it clear what is…

- explicitly specified
- hinted at
- an agent assumption

any amount of the above is fine, but once code is in the codebase there’s no way to tease out what’s what

dax Verified account @thdxr Oct 6

we've mostly gotten past the slop issue in this new world of working together with AI

the next problem is people keep accidentally undoing functionality

this is happening because everyone is more in everyone else's business. hit an issue? fix it right away without nagging anyone

the problem is it's unclear how intentional the current behavior is and what absolutely should not be rolled back

you can say tests should be this. but they don't capture the fact that you discarded seemingly valid solutions 1-4 and settled on 5. someone later (an agent) might thing "oh 3 is simpler"

any additional document also doesn't feel like it solves the problem because it's yet another thing that can drift

where is the source of truth for how your software is supposed to work?
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Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger Oct 6

not even at spacejam.com

www.spacejam.com Space Jam: A New Legacy | Official Site Space Jam: A New Legacy

Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger Oct 6

how do we escape the chat trap? Maybe intelligent interfaces

wattenberger.com/thoughts/ai-is…

wattenberger.com Chat is AI’s command line We need better ways to work with intelligent computers.

Luke Wroblewski Verified account @LukeW Oct 5

every app is being CHAT-ified.

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