Today, Friday
- MiroFish warm-up A pitch meets a simulated crowd
- Build round Simon comes to your table
- Demo rehearsal 60 seconds, one user, one path
- Your demo runs Link tested on the pitch laptop
- Final pitches
MiroFish: test your idea on a crowd
Drop in your idea as a short document. A swarm of AI agents talks it through on a simulated social network, and you get a report plus the chance to question every agent. Every group has its own instance and history. Log in with your group name, for example gruppe3, and the password from your card.
- Group 1gruppe1.mirofish.newlifedigital.de
- Group 2gruppe2.mirofish.newlifedigital.de
- Group 3gruppe3.mirofish.newlifedigital.de
- Group 4gruppe4.mirofish.newlifedigital.de
One run, start to report
About 10 minutes. Start a run early, then keep building while it works.
- Upload a seed
One to three pages about your idea (PDF, Markdown or TXT). Write your question into Simulation requirement, for example: “How do students in Mannheim react to this offer?”
- Graph builds itself about 1 min
MiroFish pulls people, organisations and relations out of your seed.
- Agents get profiles 1–2 min
Each entity becomes an agent with its own background and opinions.
- Run the simulation about 2 min
Runs are capped at 10 rounds to keep them quick. More rounds rarely add new arguments anyway.
- Generate the report 4–6 min
Afterwards, open Interaction and ask single agents why they reacted the way they did.
- Read the result as a scenario, not a forecast. The agents argue plausibly; they don't predict the future.
- Reloading is safe. Your run keeps going on the server and the progress comes back.
- For a finished run, open only Report and Interaction. Opening its Environment setup or Simulation step starts that step again.
Outlook: AI that works on AI
Two pieces of news from this week, and the big question behind them.
- An AI edited another AI's weightsMIT researchers had OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra change the weights of a small open model directly, without retraining. Touching 0.016% of the weights lifted its math score from 7.9% to 48.1%, mostly by stopping it from talking in loops. It did not add new knowledge, and no self-improving cycle was shown. VentureBeat, 2 November 2026.
- Anthropic expects recursive self-improvement to come closeIn its IPO filing, the company behind Claude writes that its estimates for future models suggest they “may imminently” reach its threshold for recursive self-improvement: AI that substantially speeds up building the next AI. No current model has crossed it, and Anthropic wants humans to stay in control. TechCrunch, 2 November 2026.
- What is the singularity?The idea that AI improves itself in a loop, each generation building a better next one, until progress gets too fast to predict. The term goes back to the mathematician Vernor Vinge (1993); Ray Kurzweil puts it around 2045. Whether and when it comes is wide open, and researchers disagree sharply.
What it means for your idea: the tools change every few months. The problem you solve and the people you solve it for stay.
From value proposition to clickable prototype
No coding needed, just free accounts. Your goal: one user, one path, a shared link that works in the pitch.
- Build brief
Your value proposition in one sentence: for whom, which problem, which benefit.
- One path
Start, two or three steps, result. More than five screens won't fit into the time.
- Start prompt
Fill in the template below and send it.
- Refine
Click through, then exactly one wish per prompt.
- Demo
Share the link, rehearse a 60-second demo, keep three screenshots as an emergency slide.
Three tools, always a plan B
| Tool | Role | Free quota | Good to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolt.new | Main tool | 300,000 tokens per day and person | Sharing a link is free, 18+ |
| Gemini Canvas | Fallback | No fixed limit stated | When your tokens run out |
| Lovable | Alternative | Only 5 credits per day | Beginner-friendly, runs out fast |
Everyone on the team creates their own account, so you get several quotas. Collect every prompt in a shared doc; if a quota is empty, restart with your start prompt in a second account.
When it gets stuck
| Problem | What to do |
|---|---|
| Too much at once | Cut down to one path, five screens at most |
| Tokens are gone | The next person continues with their account, otherwise Gemini Canvas |
| Everything gets rebuilt | One wish per prompt, plus “Leave everything else as it is.” |
| Error message | Paste the error text and add “Fix it without changing the design.” |
| Demo hangs in the pitch | Open the link on the pitch laptop beforehand, keep three screenshots ready |
The demo in your pitch
- One user, one path
Show how your target group solves its problem. Not every feature.
- Test it before
Open the link on the pitch laptop before it's your turn.
- Emergency slide
Three screenshots in your slides, in case the link or Wi-Fi hangs.
Pitch honestly: say what you built with AI. A prototype looks real but can't do anything yet. That belongs in one sentence of your demo.
Prompt templates
Replace the highlighted parts, then copy. The templates are in German, as on the cheat sheet; writing them in English works just as well.
Start prompt
Baue einen klickbaren Prototyp einer Web-App auf Deutsch. Zielgruppe: [wer genau]. Ihr Problem: [was sie heute nervt]. Unser Werteversprechen: [euer Satz aus dem Value Proposition Canvas]. Die Nutzerin geht diesen Weg: [Screen 1] → [Screen 2] → [Screen 3] → [Ergebnis]. Nutze realistische Beispieldaten, keine echten Daten. Kein Login, keine Datenbank. Einfaches, freundliches Design, gut lesbar auf dem Handy.
Change something
Ändere auf dem Screen [Name] nur [was]. Lass alles andere, wie es ist.
Add a screen
Füge nach [Screen] einen Screen hinzu, auf dem die Nutzerin [was tut].
Button doesn't work
Der Button [Beschriftung] reagiert nicht. Er soll zu [Screen] führen.
Sharpen the copy
Mach alle Texte kürzer und verständlicher für [Zielgruppe].
Sample data
Ersetze die Platzhalter durch 5 realistische Beispiele für [was].
Fix an error
Es erscheint dieser Fehler: [Fehlertext]. Behebe ihn, ohne das Design zu ändern.
What doesn't belong in an AI tool
- Real names, addresses, photos or contact details of people
- Confidential documents from partners or companies
- Passwords and access data
- Your own sensitive data, for example about health or finances
This applies to MiroFish seeds too: fictional or public material only.
Take-home for every team
Three things to keep working with after today.
- Your MiroFish stays open for a week
Until Friday 13 November, 23:59. Same address, same login. Save your reports before then.
- A crowd report on your own pitch
After the final pitches, fill in the pitch seed template with your pitch script, upload it to your instance and paste the simulation requirement from the template. You'll see how your target group, the jury and possible partners react, and what to change before your next pitch.
- Voucher: a 30-minute AI office hour
Every team gets a free 30-minute call with Simon about AI, prototyping or your next steps. Valid until 31 January 2027. Book it on WhatsApp.
Get involved with smabeg
smabeg is an assistance app that New Life Digital is building together with its founder. It's in beta right now, and the team is looking for people who want to be part of it. Pick what fits you; each link opens WhatsApp with a short message to Simon.
- Test the betaTry the app and tell the team what works and what doesn't.
- Join the teamAs a working student, freelancer, or in sales or community.
- Partner upFor organisations and founders who want to work with smabeg or use it.
Material
- Slides today, FridayFrom prototype to pitch: MiroFish warm-up, build round, demo rehearsal, 60-second demo script
- Slides of the AI input, ThursdayFrom value proposition to clickable prototype
- Cheat sheet (PDF, German)Tools, the five steps and all prompt templates on two pages
- Example seed from the MiroFish warm-upA fictional press release as Markdown, plus the matching simulation requirement
- Example prototype “Baumpatenschaft Mannheim”Built live with Bolt.new, one path, four screens
Help
- Message Simon on WhatsAppBoth days, 9:00 to 17:00. Also for MiroFish: no progress for 10 minutes or a “budget” message.
- simon@newlifedigital.deSimon Maiwald, New Life Digital, AI partner of the Ideathon
- On siteThursday 15:00 to 17:00, Friday 9:15 to 10:45