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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…
> software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code People keep trying to make simplified programming environments for significantly less-trained people and they keep failing. Is mixing in an AI actually going to make it easier to get a result that has no crippling bugs?
And how is it going to increase information in the output by having AI involved, if these AIs aren’t actually thinking and pouring out of their own entropy source into outputs?
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#33Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely. I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don’t want them shown to me on a daily basis while I’m reading blogs.
The article isn't loading for me, so I can't really comment on the images it contains, but I've found telling the ai to apply an impressionistic filter does wonders for removing the unsettling aspect. Obviously that limits you to a specific style of image, but I imagine there are other stylistic filters you might apply that achieve the same goal. I could spend all day looking at the output of "impressionist cats" and…
I'm over 1000 credits into Dalle so far (I know, I know..) and you're on the money. You can go a lot further than impressionism, though. Specifying the names of famous illustrators, photographers or artists. Specifying the media used. Lens types. Colorways. Film types. Lighting. The right combinations can yield some incredibly realistic looking things, even faces, and then for the rest of it, there's Photoshop, Gigapixel, and other tools to patch things up. (I've had more luck creating 'elements' with Dalle and then montaging them the old fashioned way.)
The images used in the blog linked by OP are okay but stylistically all over the place. OP acknowledges how difficult good prompts are to write. Beyond that, though, you still need to think like an art director and establish a way to set a common style to avoid jarring the readers, and Dalle alone can't do that.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Programming requires far more breadth and precision than 2D art. I think that in the very long run programming work will be automated, but by that stage we will either be post-scarcity or reconstituted in computation substrate.
You say that with such confidence. I'm looking for ways to hedge my reliance on my skills.
I'm confident that society would be so radically different that trying to predict and prepare is a fools game.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#35Visit their main blog page to see a subset of the resulting images all at once https://deephaven.io/blog/ https://deephaven.io/blog/page/2/ etc
I find the images fairly distracting and they take all the focus on the above page. The artwork also isn't very consistent which makes it feel like a jumbled mess. When you click a post the image takes the entire screen and pushes all the content below the fold. It's more like browsing a community art portfolio instead of a tech blog.
I'd prefer smaller thumbnails or icons that give more context to the actual post. This way they could add some benefit, such as helping to visually categorize the content. As of now, they're just a bunch of random illustrations taking up valuable screen real estate.
That being said, thanks for sharing, it's interesting to see an example of someone integrating DALL·E 2 into their workflow.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#36You should've invested in CloudFront first because your site isn't loading.
Just curious, is there any general number range for how much traffic a front page post might get? Less than 10k, 10-100,000, 100,000+, etc
I front paged a couple times back in the day. In the neighborhood of thousands of pageloads and hundreds of concurrent users. Totally trivial for static HTML, but most people get into trouble with hand-rolled or poorly tuned blog frameworks that make multiple database calls on every visitor.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know. I wasn't actually expecting to hit front-page. Trying to reinforce it best I can.
Fwiw, in my experience you don't actually need a CDN just to survive HN. It may be enough to just make sure you're not hitting a DB on every request; ideally you'd be caching the HTML output wholesale (via static site generator or otherwise) For reference: with cached HTML, my single Node.js process running on Heroku's cheapest tier has weathered the front page multiple times without breaking a sweat
Right, like something like Varnish.
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#38Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#39When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.
It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…
Imma be honest, working as an artist who has to come up with Dall-E prompts and as a programmer who has to maintain a codebase slapped together from GPT-5 output sounds equally horrifying. I think I'll stick to my grug brain engineering.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#40You should've invested in CloudFront first because your site isn't loading.
Just curious, is there any general number range for how much traffic a front page post might get? Less than 10k, 10-100,000, 100,000+, etc
I once frontpaged with a funny article that readers also shared with others. Back when people still did that instead of taking a screenshot.
1,000,000 uniques over 3 days in ~2011.
I have been trying to re-create that high ever since, lol. Going viral is one hell of a drug.