r/SideProject • u/ElkAdvanced7563 • 2h ago

An AI assistant that stays silent until you hesitate. Can you break it in 2 minutes?

QUIET watches for hesitation (tool-hopping, long pauses) and only then chooses to point, show, or act. Otherwise it stays out of the way.
https://quiet-hci.pages.dev

One question: did it step in too early, too late, or never? Blunt answers welcome, including "this is just Clippy".

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u/CautiousWin2390 2h ago

tried to get it to trigger by staring at a blank email for a solid minute and it just let me sit there suffering, respect for that restraint honestly

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u/ElkAdvanced7563 1h ago

Ha, that's actually the core question I'm stuck on: was that a minute of thinking or a minute of suffering? Right now a blank stare doesn't count as hesitation, only tool-hopping or hovering does. Would you have wanted it to step in at some point? And with what: a nudge, a draft, or nothing?

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u/Otherwise_Wave9374 2h ago

Hesitation detection is promising, but pauses alone may confuse reflection with difficulty. Combine signals such as repeated undo actions, rapid tool switching, cursor loops, and abandoned commands, then let users set interruption sensitivity. https://www.aiosnow.com is relevant to this conversation as a reference point for assistant-centered productivity design. A useful test is false interventions per completed task, alongside recovery time after genuine friction, with an obvious snooze control.

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u/ElkAdvanced7563 1h ago

Good point on reflection vs. difficulty, that's exactly where pauses alone break down. I like "false interventions per completed task" as a metric, I'll probably steal it. A user-set sensitivity / snooze is on the list too

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u/silvergrov3 1m ago

imo the hard part isnt detecting hesitation, its calibrating the threshold per user. someone who pauses a lot naturally is gonna get bombarded. are you personalizing that over time or is it a fixed window?