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Whoa, I just used Google's Bard AI to recreate a basic timer app for iPhone in under 4 minutes... just from a screenshot! 🤯 Did not give it hints as to what the app did, and it provided all of the code—it made some mistakes but nothing it couldn't...

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Min Choi3 years ago

@spacecasetay Pretty awesome! 🔥 And while Code Interpreter is disabled!

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Ammaar Reshi3 years ago

@spacecasetay Hahah perfect timing.

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AP3 years ago

Google is cooking 🧑‍🍳

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Ammaar Reshi3 years ago

I feel like we’re sleeping on them!!

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TechnoKing3 years ago

"do not make any mistakes" is my new favorite prompt

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Ammaar Reshi3 years ago

LOL it might have been too much pressure for it

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Databas33 years ago

What do you use for these screen recordings? Looks great!

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Ammaar Reshi3 years ago

@databas3_io from @pie6k—easily one of my favorite mac apps!

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Sam Sung3 years ago

This is awesome - we saw a demo like this when GPT-4 was released (i.e., drawing a UI of a website, and then AI coding it), but GPT-4 does not yet allow uploading of images. This should open up a lot of ideas for non-technical folks who want to build an app or website, but don't want to explain the entire UI (rather, just sketch it or create it in Figma)

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Ammaar Reshi3 years ago

Oh yeah!! I wonder when they’ll open up with that. Totally, just another great way for folks to get started on their ideas!

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