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Shreya Shankar, DocETL creator, details the concurrency and handoff challenges of building her AI markdown editor DocWriter V2

The editor inserts inline agent edits without moving the cursor.

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Hamel Husain@HamelHusain#1277inAI

Why doesn’t a SaaS product **like this** exist yet?

BTW I always find that Shreya’s ideas on UX to be super compelling

V2, at 4x speed. Can't wait to put this out in the open (soon)

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The project is turning out to be way harder than I thought (which is a good thing, means there’s something interesting in there). Some challenges so far

- writing is very personal and subjective; LLMs are not very good at it. need lots of guardrails and guardrails to emerge on the fly - supporting fluid transitions between agent taking the lead and human taking the lead is not easy - nontrivial concurrency issues - keeping the user in flow with a bunch of agent activity happening - parallelizing work such that human think time and agent think time happen at the same time, not sequentially (ie in chat based products)

Hamel Husain@HamelHusain

Why doesn’t a SaaS product **like this** exist yet?

BTW I always find that Shreya’s ideas on UX to be super compelling

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