engineering the perfect group chat
in real life, group chats are often unstructured, chaotic, and dynamic. people respond at their own pace, interrupt each other, add or remove people mid-conversation, and (if you're really popular) bounce between several conversations at once. in my latest project, i tried to replicate this same experience, but replaced my contact list with ai replicas of people who inspire me. the idea came from my friend sharif, who mentioned he'd been using claude to generate socratic-style conversations between ai personas to learn about various topics. the result is a system that feels super fun and strikingly realistic.
this is a technical write up on how i engineered "the perfect group chat". i'll walk through the system architecture and dive into the code in detail.
multiple, dynamic participants: a group chat has 3+ people in a single conversation thread. you can invite someone new mid-conversation or remove someone who’s no longer relevant.
