We planned to offer companies automation of certain business processes using GPT-3 in exchange for alignment-relevant data for research purposes.
From the perspective of the business, it sounds like they just want their business problem solved. They don’t care how it’s solved, they just care that it’s solved. So to test the hypothesis that you can get clients, I wonder if it would have made sense to build a Wizard of Oz MVP and solve the business problem yourself instead of using GPT-3. I guess it depends on how much time that’d save you and how confident you are that you’d eventually be able to get the tech to work.
The technical aspects of the full project presented significant challenges. We discovered that we were less familiar with certain technologies than we initially thought, particularly OAuth and specific aspects of Azure. These issues caused us considerable difficulties.
That makes sense. I’ve experienced similar things and I think it’s very common. Reading Authentication Still Sucks made me feel less imposter syndrom feelings.
I think a “Wizard of Oz”-style MVP may have been feasible, though a big part of our value proposition was speed. In retrospect, I could maybe have told the customer that the speed would be slower the first couple of months, and they likely would have accepted that. If I had done so, we plausibly could have failed faster, which is highly desirable.
From the perspective of the business, it sounds like they just want their business problem solved. They don’t care how it’s solved, they just care that it’s solved. So to test the hypothesis that you can get clients, I wonder if it would have made sense to build a Wizard of Oz MVP and solve the business problem yourself instead of using GPT-3. I guess it depends on how much time that’d save you and how confident you are that you’d eventually be able to get the tech to work.
That makes sense. I’ve experienced similar things and I think it’s very common. Reading Authentication Still Sucks made me feel less imposter syndrom feelings.
I think a “Wizard of Oz”-style MVP may have been feasible, though a big part of our value proposition was speed. In retrospect, I could maybe have told the customer that the speed would be slower the first couple of months, and they likely would have accepted that. If I had done so, we plausibly could have failed faster, which is highly desirable.