Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue

Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by eries on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:37PM (#45455909)

Hey everyone, Eric Ries here. solveit is the AI environment I personally have been using every day for months, not just for code but for writing and research, too.

it’s solved all the problems and frustrations I’ve had with both vibecoding and the limitations of the chatbot interface for doing deep work that requires concentration + the ability to understand the artifacts you are producing

and, as a special bonus, people in this course will get a sneak preview of the new book I’m working on. we’re going to use it both to teach some of the concepts from it (on how to create mission-driven long-term companies) and how to use solveit for longform writing projects

happy to answer any questions here, for folks that want to learn more,

Eric

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by jph00 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:57PM (#45456096)

(For those that don't recognise the name, Eric is the creator of The Lean Startup, and also founded the Long Term Stock Exchange. He's the co-founder of Answer.AI, which has built the solveit platform, and which fast.ai is not part of.)

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by jph00 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:26PM (#45457728)

Oops that should say "which fast.ai is now part of". s/not/now/

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by dang on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:33PM (#45457786)

I fixed it :)

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by mritchie712 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:13PM (#45456245)

do you have a video of someone using it?

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by Yenrabbit on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:07PM (#45456649)

And this prompted me to record a video showing some of my random non-work usage recently, to give a feeling for what the app looks like :) https://youtu.be/Y2B27hdKMMA

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by bhollan on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @06:37PM (#45599161)

Cool tool. I think I'm seasick now from all the scrolling. But cool tool.

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by erikgaas on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:25PM (#45456335)

Here is a video showing off using solveit for creating a web app. https://youtu.be/DgPr3HVp0eg?t=3120 To reiterate other comments, this is more about the methodology than the tool, but it is fun to see the tool in action too.

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by jph00 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:31PM (#45456394)

Thanks Erik - I've added that video to the article now.! :)

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by jph00 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:20PM (#45456749)

Latent Space just released an interview about Solveit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ybLOH1fnU

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by Armstrongdr on Thursday October 02, 2025 @08:01PM (#45457085)

I loved this interview, I can't wait to learn more about the tool use aspect.

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by Yenrabbit on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:29PM (#45456365)

We also showed it as part of Hamel's course: https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/1956514524628127875 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPr3HVp0eg) which is a longer example of the tool in action

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by mathcass on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:05AM (#45459543)

Thanks Eric (and Jeremy and Johno). The course details are a bit sparse on the sign-up site. What's the expected time commitment for the course over the 5 weeks? And how useful would the course be if you missed a few of the courses and had to catch up later?

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Re:Launching Solveit – an antidote to AI fatigue by jph00 on Saturday October 04, 2025 @03:12PM (#45475845)

Everything is recorded so it doesn't matter at all if you catch up later. Some people in the preview course didn't start until we finished! Obviously you'll get better interaction with the community if you're following along at the same time, but that's the only real issue.

I'd say budget a minimum 4 hours homework + 3-4 hours lesson watching time.

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