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by prithvi2206 7mo ago
Actually, you might find this interesting: we wrote a blog post a while back about how we gave our agent a way to voice its suffering. The first example is from the screenshot updating subagent, where it got stuck after 84 browser interacti
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by prithvi2206 7mo ago
Funnily enough, one of our early users (a solo technical writer) told us that the biggest value he got from Promptless was just finding out when the engineering team forgot to tell him about a change that would impact docs. The drafts from
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by prithvi2206 7mo ago
Yep. You give Promptless access to a test account and it navigates and interacts with your product to capture new/updated screenshots. Here's an example from our own docs, where you can see the captured screenshots if you scroll d
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Show HN: Tag Promptless on any GitHub PR/Issue to get updated user-facing docs
35 points by prithvi2206 7mo ago|7 comments
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"I have no mouth, and I must scream" – how I let our agent voice its suffering(docs.gopromptless.ai)
3 points by prithvi2206 8mo ago|1 comments
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by prithvi2206 8mo ago
tl;dr. I'm one of the founders of Promptless, the AI agent that automatically updates docs. 12 months ago, we decided to give our agent a tool to let it "scream" when it was struggling, and we wanted to share our learnings an
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by prithvi2206 8mo ago
A (charitable) interpretation of this is that the model understands "stuff that would embarrass Anthropic" to just be code for "bad/unhelpful/offensive behavior". e.g. guiding against behavior to "write hi
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Promptless tries to check its generated docs against other sources to identify errors, but there are also some very cool documentation testing tools that we might integrate in the near future!
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Happy to clarify! There are two main ways people are using the Slack integration: (1) You click the Promptless Slack message action (video below) on a thread that might warrant a doc update—Slack Connect channels are an extremely common use
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Forgot to post: link to try Promptless out right now is https://gopromptless.ai/hn
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Thank you!
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Yeah, even with lots of full-time resources, companies' documentation regularly fall out of date. It's particularly ubiquitous in AI just because of how fast the general space is changing.
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Thank you!
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
We're still seeing new customers use Promptless in new ways (hence pricing can be a bit bespoke sometimes). But for our standard use-case, the number of docs pages (crude proxy for documentation surface area) ends up being the primary
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Totally. My cofounder and I are very excited about this idea. Sort of a primitive version of this, but one Promptless user is using it to update in-app tutorials for various integrations they have, in addition to public docs. The tutorials
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Yes, Promptless already has the ability to be triggered from Slack channels (e.g. Slack Connect support channels with customers). Discord likely coming later this week or early next week! Happy to get you set up on either!
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Yeah, this is very valid. We opened up a self-service trial this week so that people can more easily give it a spin before deciding to join a paid plan, but we're still working on a lot of the customer experience things to offer a trul
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Yeah, great question! The earliest quantitative measurements people make are around how much time is being saved, but people are also measuring deflection rates in AI support chatbots (better docs => better support), which is strongly co
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Exactly. I think lots of people tend to underestimate how much documentation is out there. When I started working on Promptless, I assumed it was dominated by things like API docs and other developer docs. Turns out that's just a small
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Very cool. Will reach out soon!
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Love this! Those people are definite force multipliers, but the fact that they're rare can end up putting a lot of burden on their shoulders. And yes, I definitely overgeneralized—while it's a running joke that developers hate wri
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Yes, absolutely! Someone mentioned a similar situation where they had 100+ integration-specific landing pages in webflow (mostly for SEO) that became stale within months. Definitely would love to pick your brain more about this if intereste
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Hmm, are you thinking about this in the context of, say, code documentation in Github repos, like README.md files? Or are there types of internal docs that you typically see in markdown?
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
If you're asking about when there are new commits on the source code after a PR is opened, yes that's what happens! It just updates the existing docs branch. If you're asking if Promptless should just add doc updates to the s
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
For sure. It can be challenging to inculcate a culture of treating docs as a product, but since great docs can drive revenue growth and bad docs can increase churn, it's a very important mindset. In terms of creating guides/exampl
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Will do Greg!
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Thanks! Some of our early customers use Mintlify (we're big fans), which is an easy integration since there's always a Github sync. Let's chat soon!
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Awesome!
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Ha, I might also be weird. But yes it just opens PRs for doc updates, which still need to be reviewed. Maybe eventually people will want Promptless to be committing doc updates directly, but I still think human oversight is important for hi
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by prithvi2206 2y ago
Absolutely. There are steps in Promptless's agent flow that are designed to prevent this, but this is why users still review Promptless's suggestions to guides before committing/publishing them. I think people will still want

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