What's your AI project of the week? Anything to share?
ASKED BY · Andre DeLay · BERLIN, GERMANY · 19 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:20:40
Working on Showhub with question management, show checklists, and enhancements; also developing a complexity calculator for determining what's required to scale apps from personal use to production or internet-exposed systems.
Building an indexing and search system using Philmont (which houses petabytes of YouTube data with auto-transcriptions) to allow community members to search across six years of Office Hours episodes, enabling keyword/sponsor tracking and clip discovery.
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20:15Andre DeLay in Berlin, Germany asked, what's your AI project of the week? Anything to share? All right, Craig, you have some experience with this. I do. And I don't have anything to share at the moment. I was on vacation for a week and then this week has been really swamped with work. I've got a lot of work things going on, but I'm going to be
20:43digging in this weekend on Show Hub. There's a whole bunch of backed up features for question enabling all the question pieces, doing checklists for the show management team, and a bunch of other enhancements. I'm also working on this. A lot of people vibe code and they don't know what's next. They're not professional product managers. And so if you have the nugget of, oh, I saw this app that I use, it's a SaaS app, whatever, and I'd like to
21:17replace it? Well, if you're just doing it for yourself and you're not going to share anybody, you can just vibe code it and start using it. If you're going to share it with others, if you're going to use it in a productive manner, if you're going to expose it to the internet, there's a bunch of things that you need to do. And some of that can be more than what people are
21:39expecting. And so there's a graphic or might end up being a calculator just to say, hey, here's what I've done. How much is left? Because it can be quite a bit, you know, adding or adding multi-user support. Well, you got to change around the app because you didn't plan from that from the beginning or, you know, the way it's set up, it's not really set up to scale
22:04to the number of people you're expecting or doesn't have the support, you know, role-based security or there's a whole bunch of things that I'd love to be able to make sure people have the right expectation or ability to say, oh yeah, I got to add that in and not just rely on AI to tell you, oh, don't forget to do this. Right. And so when you, I don't know how you
22:32start your projects but obviously conceptually you have an idea for a product you kind of know what it what you want it to be but I like for me and I've only done like a couple of I mean extremely rudimentary basic apps and I always started with like a simple a simple prompt but how do you start like a big project like show hub obviously many people in the community that watch
22:56this show know what it is but there there are many that don't so like when When you're going to develop a web-based application, do you write like a spec doc, a product requirements doc outside of the AI tool and then just upload and say, this is the product spec sheet? Or like, how are you doing that? You know, I use AI to do it.
23:22And one of the easiest ways is to say, hey, I want to build an app to do. And then it's a two or three sentence thing. and then you tell it, interview me for what you need to know to build the spec. Not to go ahead and do it, but to build the spec. Because often the spec can be huge, you know, 20 or more pages with lots of detail.
23:45And one of the things you want to be able to do, especially these days, is be able to break that up into phases. because once you start playing with it, you may have different ideas about the, you know, future or enhanced features. And so have it interview you and then have it create it and tell it. And I'm going to have this other AI bot build it out.
24:12And that piece is actually surprisingly interesting because it'll say, oh, if you're going to have ChatGPT build this, here's some things that, And it will disclose things that it thinks are deficiencies or extra things that it needs to know about. And that's really fascinating to see. But then so then I'll I'll have this doc, whether it's two or 10 pages, and then I'll give it to the bot that's going to be building it and say, look at this and tell me what's missing or confusing and give me how are you going to approach it?
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