Profession-Specific AI Assistants

Guillermo Rauch proposes creating vertical-specific AI agents built on the Vercel platform, similar to how V Zero works but tailored for specific industries and professions.

Key Points:

• Concept:

  • Build specialized AI agents for specific verticals (e.g., "V Zero for doctors," "V Zero for video games," "V Zero for lawyers")
  • Use Vercel as the underlying platform/engine for deploying these AI agents

• Current Status:

  • The technology to build these vertical-specific AI agents exists today
  • Vercel has open-sourced components of V Zero to enable entrepreneurs to create these specialized agents
  • Guillermo expresses surprise that more people haven't built these yet ("I'm like why, please like where are y'all at")

• Implementation Approach:

  • Entrepreneurs can use Vercel's templatized components
  • Similar to how game engines enable different video games, Vercel enables different AI applications
  • Developers can identify opportunities for AI to disrupt specific professional spaces

• Example of Creative AI Engineering:

  • Guillermo created a "Doom Captcha" where users kill three enemies in Doom instead of selecting images
  • Built by using a WebAssembly version of Doom running in the browser
  • Required hacking the C codebase to create a constrained version of the game
  • Project went viral with multiple news articles written about it
  • Created in "a couple hours of prompting" rather than traditional coding

• Broader Implication:

  • "I no longer write code, I only prompt" - represents a shift in how developers work
  • Opportunity for "creative coding" and "interactive art" platforms
  • AI enables rapid development of previously complex applications