Building Your Own Creativity System
You can build your own AI-powered creativity system. By assembling simple pieces that you control.
You can build your own AI-powered creativity system. By assembling simple pieces that you control.
For decades, the startup mantra was: Ideas are nothing, execution is everything. That wisdom is inverting. What does this mean for how we work?
I built a research assistant that runs while I sleep. Every morning at 5am, it wakes up, reads RSS feeds from writers I follow, and asks: "Is this relevant to what Matthias is working on right now?"
The real challenge with artificial artists is to rethink creativity itself, not as something exclusively human, but as a field that can expand through collaboration with intelligent machines.
LLMs cannot think. They cannot consciously create mental models, consider hypothetical scenarios, weigh causal relationships, and reflect on meaning. Talking about reasoning is only marketing blurb. Don't fall for it.
I built an AI tool to read everything I’ve ever written—just so I could have better conversations with my own ideas. Here is how.