The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
Oct 2, 2025 · 55:26
Jeremy Howard, Eric Ries, and Johno Whitaker join host Alessio to present Answer.ai's Solveit platform, arguing that human-in-the-loop, step-by-step AI collaboration outperforms fully autonomous agents for complex coding and writing tasks. The 12-person team built their own integrated development and deployment system, eschewing cloud vendors. Solveit provides each user a persistent Linux Docker container with a Jupyter-like interface where the AI can see all steps, enabling immediate error correction and iterative improvement. Johno demonstrates building a perfume scent search engine in under an hour; Eric shows how he uses Solveit to manage writing his book 'Incorruptible', incorporating test reader comments and fact-checking sections. Jeremy reveals they turned Andrej Karpathy's GPT tokenizer video into a polished blog post. The Solveit course launches October 20th at solve.it.com, teaching this philosophy beyond just the tool.