I will quite often ask my favourite chat LLM to check an architectural idea for me or ask for a different idea but I thought back the the old school advice of getting 3 quotes. We do that to check a number of things – the price, the items included and the ways of doing things. So how can I use that in my daily job?
I started this singularly. Create a client, a specification, an architect and a design and 1000X that.
The Client
Loom Ventures was born. And using all my LLM Chat skills I crafted a fictional company with lots of AI cheesiness based on the name. The highlights:
Loom Ventures: a venture capital firm dedicated to empowering visionary entrepreneurs and early-stage startups
About Us: At Loom Ventures, we believe that great ideas are woven together with innovation, strategy, and support. We are a venture capital firm dedicated to empowering visionary entrepreneurs and early-stage startups, providing not just funding but the strategic guidance and network connections they need to scale.
Our Mission: Our mission is to invest in groundbreaking technology and innovative business models that have the potential to redefine industries. We see startups as intricate threads in the fabric of progress, and we are committed to helping founders weave their ideas into sustainable, high-impact businesses.
Join Us: Whether you’re a founder looking for a strategic partner or an investor seeking the next big opportunity, Loom Ventures is here to help turn bold ideas into reality. Let’s weave the future together.
The Specification
Then I used the following prompt to create our specification:
Create a detailed specification for all aspects of the web application required for the following company.
Keep it as functional requirements only as this will be sent out to various companies to propose the detailed design.
The Architect
To create our architect I wanted to have a persona aswell as a visual image to emcompass them.
The persona
Create a high quality persona in JSON format for a software design, architecture and security expert.
Using the following attributes create a realistic person to be used for llms to emulate the thinking, design choices and language of that expert.
Which gave the following output:
Profile Picture
For this we wanted a simple, consistent type of profile picture using the following prompt:
Generate a realistic professional profile headshot photo on a simple background with no extra design elements in 1:1 aspect ratio for the following persona
Scaling to 1000
To get a diverse set of views I generally wanted to let the AI do the randomisation work but I wanted to control a few things through code:
- 50/50 male/female
- even ratio of architects per country. Using Pycountry where were are 249 gave us basically 4 architects each for a couple of bonuses.
So please – meet our architects.
Side Notes
Generating these I tripped the Responsible AI Policy a few times. Some I tried 3 times with the same prompt but eventually all worked. There wasn’t anything you’d note as “bad” about the query.