Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

I’ve gotten a (very) basic website done via Chat-GPT in about five minutes. Very static but you can ask it to do fancier stuff and it seems to work all right.

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by toiletfuneral » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 9:38 PM UTC

As a designer none of these make me worried about my skill set, they all look pretty bad with the slightest amount of attention.

The real concern is how ugly a world the capitalists are willing accept to cut labor costs, and we know the answer, just look what capitalism did architecture. Dogshit buildings everywhere designed by contractors to avoid skilled labor. What an ugly time to be alive

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by joe_the_user » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 9:50 PM UTC

It's entertaining to have an AI create a fantasy web page for a fantasy product that's clearly not serious. Entertaining but I see it sooooo much now that it's kind of wearing off.

However I'd like to see AI create a web page for an product that's appealing and plausible. This would be closer to seeing if the AI as a human replacement or not.

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by echelon » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 9:51 PM UTC

toiletfuneral wrote: post #5

As a designer none of these make me worried about my skill set, they all look pretty bad with the slightest amount of attention. The real concern is how ugly a world the capitalists are willing accept to cut labor costs, and we know the answer, just look what capitalism did architecture. Dogshit buildings everywhere designed by contractors to avoid skilled labor. What an ugly time to be alive

This is day one.

You're seeing the results of amateurs adapting unspecialized tools. They're using minimal effort and still deriving head turning results.

A great analogy might be all the folks making Geocities websites back in '99. Look at how far we've come from that. Can you even fathom where we'll be in five years? (Or even just this fall, given the pace of research and new startups optimizing models/workflows?)

These tools are going to be specially purposed for every domain soon. VC is going to pour into every possible optimization niche, and talented teams will build specially purposed tools that put entire careers on easy mode.

This is good. We shouldn't want to write HTML any more than we should want to churn butter.

The job of designer will change to incorporate the new workflows. But everything else will also change. Websites of 2000-2020 will look as dated as magazine ads. New websites will be rich and interactive as never before.

This is the biggest boom and shakeup of our industry perhaps ever. Get excited by the opportunities. You're not going to have to work like a caveman designer anymore. You'll be a year 2080 designer before the decade ends.

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by gtirloni » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 10:02 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #7

toiletfuneral wrote: post #5

As a designer none of these make me worried about my skill set, they all look pretty bad with the slightest amount of attention. The real concern is how ugly a world the capitalists are willing accept to cut labor costs, and we know the answer, just look what capitalism did architecture. Dogshit buildings everywhere designed by contractors to avoid skilled labor. What an ugly time to be alive

This is day one. You're seeing the results of amateurs adapting unspecialized tools. They're using minimal effort and still deriving head turning results. A great analogy might be all the folks making Geocities websites back in '99. Look at how far we've come from that. Can you even fathom where we'll be in five years? (Or even just this fall, given the pace of research and new startups optimizing models/workflows?)…

> New websites will be rich and interactive as never before.

So Flash is making a comeback?

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by minusf » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 10:08 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #7

toiletfuneral wrote: post #5

As a designer none of these make me worried about my skill set, they all look pretty bad with the slightest amount of attention. The real concern is how ugly a world the capitalists are willing accept to cut labor costs, and we know the answer, just look what capitalism did architecture. Dogshit buildings everywhere designed by contractors to avoid skilled labor. What an ugly time to be alive

This is day one. You're seeing the results of amateurs adapting unspecialized tools. They're using minimal effort and still deriving head turning results. A great analogy might be all the folks making Geocities websites back in '99. Look at how far we've come from that. Can you even fathom where we'll be in five years? (Or even just this fall, given the pace of research and new startups optimizing models/workflows?)…

is that you sidney?

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by shostack » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 10:09 PM UTC

cammikebrown wrote: post #4

I’ve gotten a (very) basic website done via Chat-GPT in about five minutes. Very static but you can ask it to do fancier stuff and it seems to work all right.

It can do basic rails stuff. But I do wonder what options there are to train it on your codebase for even a small project so it can just know what files to edit and that to name things.