Ask Your AI To Fill This

Problem

I have a service for additional stats for activities from Strava. It's for personal use. Mostly. Among other features I want to be able to mute repetitive activities from other users' feed. For that I need rules

Constructor UI

A rule can consist of different stats, like distance. All of them can be combined. I need a special UI. First version looked this:

But I quickly understood I need even more complicated engine. Do not want to implement, do not want to use.

Text-editor with parser, validator and auto-complete

Why not instead adding a single huge text area, give some example for pseudo-language that can express condition, add validation and autocomplete?

A code editor. Something from the work. This I can deal with. Could be fun.

Natural Language input

Ok, now in 2026 writing formal expressions is considered old-fashion and waste of keystrokes. People probably never will write regexes, Excel formulas and home brew DSL rules again. Not at the site like this.

It's simple. Let's add a request that some LLM on the backend will transform into a rule? But I don't want to deal with LLM keys, and local ones that I'm able to run on my tiny server are bad. And what will be with that LLM in two years?

Ask Your AI

Okay, don't want to embed any AI, but can't ignore it. Just a copyable json schema and an input - past to UI and ask for writing. Last model, no complicated copyright.

This is where I ended up. But it requires copy pasting, and still ocassionaly break. Not a big of a problem, and it's future proof in a way that agents can use it too.

Browser or OS-level standard in the future

Temporary, in the old era, if LLM progress were frozen, we would have eventually something like this:

<input type="ai" validation="schema.json">

A special input, that browser recognizes and use AI that is tailored to you, making it very simple to create a rule.

But really, no need. All browsers soon if not already will be able to do it anyway, without any hints from developers and just help with any kind of input everywhere.

And even then, only useful until the Singlarity.