[stavros]

Exactly. I've spent the weekend trying my hand at making an AI assistant SaaS (I can't believe this doesn't exist yet!), and the biggest lesson I learnt is that I need to pay attention to what Claude Code does. I need to be specific in my instructions, and I need to review the output, because it will sometimes not know how to do things and it will never say "I don't know how to do that", it'll just endlessly write more and more code to try to appease you.

I think I'm faster with Claude Code overall, but that's because it's a tradeoff between "it makes me much faster at the stuff I'm not good at" and "it slows me down on the stuff I am good at". Maybe with better prompting skills, I'll be faster overall, but I'm definitely glad I don't have to write all the boilerplate yet again.

[_pdp_]

> I've spent the weekend trying my hand at making an AI assistant SaaS (I can't believe this doesn't exist yet!), and the biggest lesson I learnt is that I need to pay attention to what Claude Code does.

It is part of the learning curve discovering that making a non-deterministic system act deterministically based on some vague instructions is actually pretty difficult.

[stavros]

I don't need it to act deterministically, I just need it to be correct.

[taormina]

I mean, you need to deterministically produce correctness.

[_alternator_]

Most of us would be happy with the “probably approximately correct” standard for Claude code. ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_corre...

[audessuscest]

> I've spent the weekend trying my hand at making an AI assistant SaaS (I can't believe this doesn't exist yet!)

you mean another wrapper ?

[stavros]

Do you know of any good ones?

[audessuscest]

there's plainly, just run a search on perplexity or else. Most YC startup are AI wrapper in some sort...

[stavros]

I haven't been able to find any AI personal assistants, please point me to any you may know.

[com2kid]

The entire market is focused on productivity ones that all have the same feature set, no real originality in the offerings IMHO.

There are a lot of low hanging fruit that can be tackled. From helping people stay focused to managing household schedules. I honestly don't even think the product has to be SaSS, a 16GB VRAM GPU, or a well equipped MacBook, can do everything with locally.

[zaphirplane]

They keep asking for a specific recommendation and gets there are tons out there

[lelanthran]

> Exactly. I've spent the weekend trying my hand at making an AI assistant SaaS (I can't believe this doesn't exist yet!)

I'm not sure what this means; what exactly is an AI assistant SaaS? There are plenty of wrappers around LLMs that you can use, but I'm guessing that a wrapper around (for example) the ChatGPT or Claude API isn't what you had in mind, right?

Can you explain?

[stavros]

I mean an AI PA. Someone to manage my calendar, todos, personal documentation, emails, etc. Just something to help with general life admin.