On Building with AI - Decision Node

In a few short years, AI has taken the world of software by storm. Every new model features improved intelligence, better performance, and new, seemingly magical, capabilities. For app builders, it has evoked a mix of kid in a candy shop giddiness and keeping up with the Joneses anxiety.

At Eraser, we started our journey with AI a year ago, building DiagramGPT, and eventually incorporating multiple AI features into our core app. Today, we’ll look at several decisions we made along the way, addressing some in a more philosophical or strategic manner, and some more tactically:

Eraser is a docs and diagrams tool for engineering teams. Our conviction: most of us want to get better at making decisions collaboratively and documenting our work, but don't because:

Because AI models are so powerful, it's easy to feel drawn in many directions. As a small team, we found value in articulating what we didn't want to build (for now, at least):

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