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Superblocks CEO: How to find a unicorn idea by studying AI system prompts
- Brad Menezes, CEO of Superblocks, believes billion-dollar startup ideas can be found by studying system prompts used by AI startups.
- System prompts are detailed instructions used by AI startups to train foundational models in specific domains and tasks.
- Superblocks shared 19 system prompts from popular AI coding products like Windsurf, Manus, Cursor, Lovable, and Bolt.
- Menezes highlighted that prompt enrichment around the system prompts is crucial, constituting 80% of the 'secret sauce'.
- The three components of system prompts to study are role prompting, contextual prompting, and tool use.
- Role prompting gives models purpose and personality, while contextual prompting provides relevant context for actions.
- Tool use enables models to perform agentic tasks beyond text generation, such as editing code and querying databases.
- Superblocks aims to allow non-programmers to write apps by handling security and access to enterprise data sources.
- Menezes restricts software engineers at Superblocks from building internal tools, encouraging the use of the product for various needs.
- Superblocks has gained customers like Instacart and Paypaya Global, focusing on providing vibe coding tools for enterprises.
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