Kyle Poyar

Shift From UI to Agent Experience with Prompt Guidance

Seemingly everyone is replacing point-and-click with a prompt bar. Design no longer differentiates. We're going to need to differentiate on the *agent* experience instead. One 🔥 example from Replit : The product helps you improve your prompt. Most of us (myself included) aren't prompt engineers. We're riddled with prompt anxiety. And a garbage prompt can often mean a garbage result -- and not much patience to keep going. Small things Replit does that make a big difference: 1. They have a Mad Libs-style prompt tutorial directly in the bar. You don't need to remember the best possible prompt. You just replace the text with what you're trying to build: type of project, who it's for, what it does, and features, style & detail. 2. They provide suggestions, likely pulled from data around Replit's most successful apps. These includes apps, data tools, automations, games, business tools, and websites. I found it far more helpful than a blank box telling me to "build anything". 3. They let you choose your own Agent Experience. Specific areas you can customize: - Speed (choose "Fast" to make lightweight changes quickly) - Level of autonomy (low, medium, high or max) - App testing - High power power - Agent access to web search & media generation These options make Replit usable for coding n00bs (like me) up to pros and for use cases ranging from prototypes (build it fast) to production grade apps (take extra time to make it work). --- The best AI products help us clarify our ideas. And they shorten the distance between curiosity and real value. Yaakov Carno tried out 40 AI products with a prompt bar UX and reported back on how to do it well. See the full piece in Growth Unhinged here: https://lnkd.in/ecJ8TRFJ #ai #ux #genai