Chris has Jacob Miller on the show, who is building a tool called DiffUI. The big idea is that it uses a diffusion model to do prompt-to-website design rather than an LLM, because image-based models are more interesting and creative. So stay there for a while, producing really detailed visual mockups and plans, then head to the LLM.

Time Jumps

  • 00:00:08 Getting excited about building on CodePen
  • 00:02:16 Building with AI tooling could be better
  • 00:05:35 Where we started with LLMs to where we are now
  • 00:12:00 How do we get better design out of LLMs?
  • 00:17:09 You create a build plan to hand to an LLM
  • 00:24:18 Getting customers to stick
  • 00:26:20 Building safety concerns into an app

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