Creating an AI Startup

You may have seen online that all AI startups are just wrappers on API calls to ChatGPT. From what I have observed, this is largely accurate due to being extremely simple and cost-effective.

The Idea

Recently, my father asked me if I could get ChatGPT to do a read-through of his book and point out where it strayed from the rules laid by the Official Chicago Style Manual. This includes simple things like where to have new lines, when to write out a number versus when to use the symbol, and whether to use "straight quotes" or “smart quotes.” However, the website version could not accept a 200-page book...

The Excecution

I was able to get this done in a weekend by asking ChatGPT what to do. The AI showed me how to run the API calls from a Python script, helped me implement strategies to minimize token usage, and understand the realistic limitations of editing a full-length novel using an LLM. This was done much faster than someone with years of experience, simply because it ended up being about 1000 lines of code, which would have taken me the whole day to just type out, let alone test.

The Birth of the Idea Guy

When I took my first game design class, the first lesson I learned was that no one's job can be just to come up with good ideas. Anyone can have good ideas. What one needs to succeed are technical skills to contribute to implementing and creating good ideas. However, with the rise of AI we have the birth of the idea guy.