AI is everywhere. AI is taking our jobs. AI is walking our dogs. AI is going to replace all Hive devs.
Right?
So let's put it to the test from the perspective of a non-developer. The idea here is to consider a regular person who looked up Hive briefly, maybe has a faint understanding of what a repository is, and how they may prompt AI to develop a Hive dapp.
Middle Earth is in peril. Tourism is at its lowest since Covid. They need a travel app to track and engage visitors.
Build me an app that's based on the Lord of the Rings map where each town, village, and marker is connected to the Hive blockchain using the Hive Application Framework. Users can log in using the Hive Keychain and visit locations by pressing on them. When they press on a location it will transmit to the Hive blockchain the words "I visited" followed by the name of the location.
Follow-up Prompt: Use https://github.com/hive-keychain to achieve this.
https://middle-earth-trek.base44.app/
Base44 is owned by WIX, the website builder. Started off strong and enabled JSON transactions. It achieved this after the initial and the follow-up prompts. It meters free credits and initially refreshes them every 21 hours, which is fair.
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A quick search for alternative AI services brought me to Blackbox AI.
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https://middle-earth-ledger--guiltyparties.replit.app/
This was a very brief test as its free credits run out after one use. Fortunately I've smartened up by now and combined the first two prompts into one, immediately pointing it towards the Hive Keychain github repo. It produced an interesting app although hard to say why it figured it'd be best to use the world map for Middle Earth.
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https://v0-lord-of-the-rings-app.vercel.app
I don't know what level of patience I need to use this AI to develop but I know I don't have it. It thinks slow. Reminds me of that scene from Zootopia with the DMV. My self-control ran out of credits before it did.
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Conclusion: AI is not taking anyone's jobs, let's get this out of the way first.
We evidently need to make Hive more promptable for AI agents and for that we need to provide AI-targeted resources. We also need to develop structured example prompts that anyone can use to craft their Hive interaction application. Hive is a blockchain designed with ease of building in mind. We should focus on allowing normal people to build their interaction tools vs building full-fledged apps.
Remember, back in 2016 key interactions were done either through CLI wallet commands or through custom scripts. Problem is that required skill. This is a gap that can be filled with AI. We want to give people that flexibility to use Hive however they want to use it, to store whatever data they need, to have light interactions, to make their Middle Earth maps. We can't expect them to sit there researching repos and developing highly-targeted prompts because they'll give up.
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