We accidentally made an AI platform: Jamie Turner
Oct 8, 2024 · 5:36
Jamie Turner, co-founder of Convex, explains how his company's backend platform accidentally became an AI platform because its reactive data flow paradigm—extending React's state reactivity to the server with subscribable queries and mutations—perfectly suits generative AI workflows. He describes Convex's architecture as seamlessly syncing state between backend steps and the application, enabling concurrent chains of tasks like automatic speech recognition, summarization, embedding generation, and finding related notes. Turner notes that post-ChatGPT, over 90% of Convex projects are generative AI. To support this shift, Convex added native vector indexes for schema fields and launched a startups program with discounts and exclusive forums. Upcoming high-level components will encapsulate state machines for sophisticated workflows. Turner presents Convex as a way for generative AI engineers to ship quickly and confidently.
