Rapid Prototyping of LLM Enabled Webapps

PepTalk: AI Journaling Tool Realtime conversation with aI companion to help you note down feelings and journals for the day. (Prototype: https://peptalk-navy.web.app/) What2Do: AI Trip Planning Tool A trip planning tool for generating itinearies based on article url input and content extraction. (Prototype: what2do-51224.web.app) OHours: Office Hour Scheduling Tool An office hour queuing system to improve student experience and help TAs manage questions more efficiently. (Prototype: ohours.web.app/) Credits: Lian Zhang, Janna Lee, Soham Shah, Jonny Kong ...

October 19, 2024 • 📖 1 min read • Terry Chen

Deciding the Right Question Is More Important Than the Answer

When problems are ambiguous, the limiting factor is often not answer quality but question quality. This piece explores why framing better questions is the real leverage point in AI-assisted thinking and product work.

October 5, 2024 • 📖 3 min read • Terry Chen

Why Context is Everything in AI Content Generation

Why context is the critical factor in AI content quality - moving beyond single-prompt expectations to rich, contextual content generation that adapts to individual needs and cognitive patterns.

September 20, 2024 • 📖 3 min read • Terry Chen

Essence of Creativity: Future of Creative Work

Exploring the intersection of AI-generated content and human creativity. Analysis of creative workflows, multimodal interactions, and the future of content creation in the AI era.

August 25, 2024 • 📖 14 min read • Terry Chen

Building AI That Actually Understands How Students Learn

How we built an LLM system that identifies student learning gaps and connects them with peers who've solved similar problems—scaling personalized mentorship through AI that understands the nuances of how people actually learn.

August 15, 2024 • 📖 27 min read • Terry Chen

Multi-modal Creative Ad Generation

Development of TikTok Symphony Assistant - an AI-powered creative tool for generating ad scripts and video content. Agentic workflows and interface optimization for automated creative generation.

May 20, 2024 • 📖 12 min read • Terry Chen

Marrrket: AI Listing Secondhand Marketplace

Marrrket is an AI-powered second-hand marketplace platform targeting North American university students, initially focusing on Chinese international students. The platform aims to solve the inefficiency in the current second-hand market by simplifying the listing process through AI-generated product descriptions from images and minimal user input. By reducing friction in the listing process, Marrrket will increase the overall volume of second-hand items available in the market, creating a more efficient marketplace for both buyers and sellers. The platform’s innovation centers on using artificial intelligence to dramatically lower the barrier to entry for sellers, which is hypothesized to be the primary constraint on market growth. ...

March 20, 2024 • 📖 10 min read • Terry Chen

Cogno: Multi-agent AI for Sales Automation

Multi-agent system for cross boarder e-commerce sales automation. Co-founder and head of product. https://cognogpt.com Cogno+ is dedicated to revolutionizing global e-commerce by empowering brands with AI-driven assistance that offers seamless, personalized customer experiences. Our mission is to serve as the digital bridge between brands and customers, enhancing interactions and transactions across international markets, and allowing the brand to increase conversion and upsell while reducing time and money spent on manual customer service. ...

March 1, 2024 • 📖 3 min read • Terry Chen

Service Localization

Technology built for one market rarely works in another without rethinking the product, not just the language.

August 18, 2023 • 📖 1 min read • Terry Chen