November 9, 2024

Microblogging Made Easy

Microblogging is easy, especially compared to macroblogging, but sometimes easy isn’t enough. We want effortless. I had an idea today to create an application that you could send thoughts and links to throughout the day and it would create a daily microblog post based on the content. With LLMs, I imagine this would be hardly more difficult than forming a juicy prompt and piping messages into it.

While this doesn’t sound very interesting at first, it could be interesting for two reasons. First, by making the blogging process easier, the user would be encouraged to contribute more content to their blog. The more you contribute, the more your brain shifts into a mode made for contribution. Everything you learn or ideate is immediately recognizable as something worth mentioning. The more you think, the more you pack content into the mixing pot that is your mind, the higher the likelihood of interesting thought concoctions arising on a whim.

Second, the design of LLMs makes them adept at forming connections between seemingly unrelated topics. Combine this with the first point and you create an original idea factory.