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530 points duck | 4 comments | 20 Dec 24 07:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.61s | source
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steveruizok ◴[20 Dec 24 15:05 UTC] No.42471660[source]▶
Hey, Steve here from tldraw.

We had a bunch of fun putting this together so I'm really happy to see folks enjoying it. I'm not sure where the project is going but I've been waking up for weeks with a fresh "oh christ, we could do ___", so that's exciting.

Ask me anything!

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zamfi ◴[20 Dec 24 15:31 UTC] No.42471944[source]▶
Hi Steve! Super cool implementation.

Any chance you’ll make the source available?

There are about 50 extensions I’d make to it if I could! (And I’m sure I’m not alone.)

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1. steveruizok ◴[20 Dec 24 18:53 UTC] No.42473732[source]▶
Not immediately! This might turn out to be just a great demo, might be something worth continuing with, really depends on how the next few weeks go. Either way there might be something we can do with the developer community around data endpoints in the short term.
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2. pgbovine ◴[21 Dec 24 00:59 UTC] No.42476650[source]▶
so exciting to see these ideas out in the world! i'm now imagining a Scratch-like playground for kids to explore end-user programming / AI in an accessible way, like some of the example apps you've shown

there's been a rising tide of academic HCI work in a similar space, wonder if there will be cross-pollination of ideas along these lines (many more papers i'm sure but some off the top of my head): https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11473 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09128

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3. sibeliuss ◴[21 Dec 24 02:48 UTC] No.42477149[source]▶
I was thinking the same thing -- the most fun learning to program one could imagine. This!
4. steveruizok ◴[21 Dec 24 18:20 UTC] No.42481241[source]▶
Thanks for the links!

I should really share the design doc from when we started putting this together. The core idea here was a) making a little hobby machine on the canvas and b) using LLMs to “power” the widgets. Somehow that ended up looping back to “ai workflows” but definitely not where we started. I’m only catching up on the space now!