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hank9

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About hank9

SF. Tech. work at briefhq.ai

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    Comment #48193345

    I’m one of the authors. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08112 At first, we kind hated AI tools. We’d ask it to build something and we’d get the most generic looking nonsense that…

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    Comment #48186928

    Figma isn't much better these days

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    Comment #48186817

    Totally fair. I just want more weird one-off websites from non technically people that aren't terrible squarespace/webflow/whatever clones

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    Comment #48186788

    Gatekeeping is probably the wrong word here. But like, letting someone create a script that uses regex to parse some annoying forms they have to deal with in my totally made up hyp…

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    Comment #48182264

    I don't remember who said it first but "software teams always ship their org chart" has always stuck with me. How a team is organized has such an outsized hand it what they build.

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    Comment #48182148

    Yeah for all of the criticism (rightly so), that AI gets. Breaking down any gatekeeping behind creating stuff on the internet has to be a net good.

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