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by zurfer 609 days ago
Anthropic recently released something that looks more polished but follows the chat paradigm. [1]

As a builder of something like that [2], I believe the future is a mix, where you have chat (because it's easy to go deep and refine) AND generate UIs that are still configurable manually. It's interesting to see that you also use plotly for rendering charts. I found it non-trivial to make these highly configurable via a UI (so far).

Thank you for open sourcing so we can all learn from it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41885231 [2] https://getdot.ai
3 comments
flessner 609 days ago
The future in this space will probably stick to what IDEs have done from the beginning: Leaving the "core platform" unchanged while providing additional AI powered features around it.

Microsoft Office, VS Code, Adobe Photoshop and most other large software platforms have all embraced this.

I have genuinely not seen an AI product that works standalone (without a preexisting platform) besides chat-based LLMs.

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zurfer 609 days ago
Here is the link to one of the prompts. It seems like all the LLM tasks are in the agents directory: https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator/blob/main/py-sr...

Some of these "agents" are used for surprising things like sorting: https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator/blob/main/py-sr... [this seems a bit lazy, but I guess it works :D]

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chenglong-hn 609 days ago
you find it! you can't imagine how often I'm annoyed when see April being ranked before March due to alphabetic order...

Thus the sorting agent, and now running by default in the background!

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DeathArrow 609 days ago
If you look in the video from OP, you can see that chat is still used at some point.
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chenglong-hn 609 days ago
yes! chat is still a necessary component, since it's sometimes the only way for us to communicate unstructured information to the system.
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zurfer 609 days ago
hmm there is a follow up to show the difference in percent instead of absolute values, which is similar to the type of interaction you can have in chat and there is a sort of history on the left side, so things are chat like to some degree.
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