AI Product
Partial Autonomy Applications
📶 The Autonomy Slider
Andrej Karpathy created the autonomy slider. It classifies AI products by their level of autonomy.
AI-Enhanced Products: Add LLM features to an existing product. The core workflow stays the same. Examples: Miro, Jira, Slack, Google Docs.
AI-First Products: Design the UX around the LLM or agent. Examples: ChatGPT, Claude, Devin.
✨ AI as the Engine
AI can act as an engine, adding LLM power to an existing product. Here, AI is a key component, not the whole product.
Simon Wardan's YOW! 2025 talk explores this idea. View slides.
👥 AI as an Assistant
This pattern deeply integrates LLM features into a traditional UI. It creates tight interaction between the UI and the LLM.
Examples include code assistants that are tightly integrated into the development environment.
🤖 AI as an Agent
In this model, the UI is built around the agent. See this Manus replay for an example:
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