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

#31

Post by ux-app »

beepbooptheory wrote: post #23

Appreciate the effort but these demos have really quickly become so boring. If you can design an entire website with the AI tools, it appears its almost certainly a website you don't need to create in the first place. Either it has already essentially been made by somebody who actually understood and cared about the code, or it's such a trivial mix of stuff you're better off making a squarespace site or whatever. At…

>Coding involve care and inspiration

give it a rest mate. Most coding is garbage generic gluing of boilerplate and API calls.

Aligning buttons and agonizing over 18px vs 20px padding is a monumental waste of human capital. 99.999% of coding is basically an interface to a DB (fetch some data, display it, maybe do some basic arithmetic and then save the data).

A machine will do all that drudgery better and quicker. We're not there yet, but the writing is on the wall.

>and should not necessarily be reinventing the wheel again and again

you must be new to the job.

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

#32

Post by slimebot80 »

OK somehow I've become blasé with text and image generation. (I shouldn't be, but hey)

What impressed me was the possibility you used AI to produce a responsive HTML structure and somehow assembled all the assets..... but from what I can tell this was still done manually, even if using a template.

It's funny how I am no longer amazed by these generated images. They are amazing. Yet I am still skeptical AI can assemble assets and html from scratch :)

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

#33

Post by gwoolhurme »

ux-app wrote: post #31
beepbooptheory wrote: post #23

Appreciate the effort but these demos have really quickly become so boring. If you can design an entire website with the AI tools, it appears its almost certainly a website you don't need to create in the first place. Either it has already essentially been made by somebody who actually understood and cared about the code, or it's such a trivial mix of stuff you're better off making a squarespace site or whatever. At…

>Coding involve care and inspiration give it a rest mate. Most coding is garbage generic gluing of boilerplate and API calls. Aligning buttons and agonizing over 18px vs 20px padding is a monumental waste of human capital. 99.999% of coding is basically an interface to a DB (fetch some data, display it, maybe do some basic arithmetic and then save the data). A machine will do all that drudgery better and quicker. We'…

While I don't disagree with you largely. What a really nasty way to say it no? It's true a lot of what happens is boilerplate API calls and copy pasting of solved problems. AI is making that happen a lot faster, however the parent comment also has some good points. If you work for a large company most of your day is spent understanding domain specific problems then executing on that. It would be nice to see something more exciting because this is the Nth version of "AI made a thing" I have seen.

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

#34

Post by krainboltgreene »

tambourine_man wrote: post #27

I’m always amazed at the dismissive comments recent AI advancement generates: it’s not really creation, a human would do much better, it’s getting old, etc Think about it for a second: a machine understood your request in plain English and executed it adequately, instantly and free. If you can’t think how that will affect every aspect of UX and creative job I don’t know what to tell you. And that’s not even touching…

You could have written an incredibly similar comment but for the blockchain 6 years ago. Down to the tone and verbiage.

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

#35

Post by krainboltgreene »

ux-app wrote: post #31
beepbooptheory wrote: post #23

Appreciate the effort but these demos have really quickly become so boring. If you can design an entire website with the AI tools, it appears its almost certainly a website you don't need to create in the first place. Either it has already essentially been made by somebody who actually understood and cared about the code, or it's such a trivial mix of stuff you're better off making a squarespace site or whatever. At…

>Coding involve care and inspiration give it a rest mate. Most coding is garbage generic gluing of boilerplate and API calls. Aligning buttons and agonizing over 18px vs 20px padding is a monumental waste of human capital. 99.999% of coding is basically an interface to a DB (fetch some data, display it, maybe do some basic arithmetic and then save the data). A machine will do all that drudgery better and quicker. We'…

> give it a rest mate. Most coding is garbage generic gluing of boilerplate and API calls.

I think that says a lot more about the code you perceive than it does about what coding happens in the world.

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

#36

Post by jvm___ »

taberiand wrote: post #28
tambourine_man wrote: post #27

I’m always amazed at the dismissive comments recent AI advancement generates: it’s not really creation, a human would do much better, it’s getting old, etc Think about it for a second: a machine understood your request in plain English and executed it adequately, instantly and free. If you can’t think how that will affect every aspect of UX and creative job I don’t know what to tell you. And that’s not even touching…

> Think about it for a second: a machine understood your request in plain English and executed it adequately, instantly and free. And the same general purpose publicly available free AI can perform at that level for a very, very wide range of tasks. Even if the general purpose bot is just 'adequate', how long until fine-tuned versions for specific tasks come out, performing at superhuman levels?

Today's software programs are written by humans for humans.

We'll rewrite those to be by AI for AI.

Craziness is incoming technologically and societally.

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

#37

Post by tambourine_man »

krainboltgreene wrote: post #34
tambourine_man wrote: post #27

I’m always amazed at the dismissive comments recent AI advancement generates: it’s not really creation, a human would do much better, it’s getting old, etc Think about it for a second: a machine understood your request in plain English and executed it adequately, instantly and free. If you can’t think how that will affect every aspect of UX and creative job I don’t know what to tell you. And that’s not even touching…

You could have written an incredibly similar comment but for the blockchain 6 years ago. Down to the tone and verbiage.

I could never have done that. Never bought into the crypto hype, even though I still find the blockchain very interesting. Never had a cent in crypto currency or NFT.

In fact, I’m extremely averse to hype, perhaps almost to a pathological degree.

And yet, I can’t remember when I was more scared and excited about some tech. Take that as you wish.

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

#38

Post by vasco »

jvm___ wrote: post #36
taberiand wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Think about it for a second: a machine understood your request in plain English and executed it adequately, instantly and free. And the same general purpose publicly available free AI can perform at that level for a very, very wide range of tasks. Even if the general purpose bot is just 'adequate', how long until fine-tuned versions for specific tasks come out, performing at superhuman levels?

Today's software programs are written by humans for humans. We'll rewrite those to be by AI for AI. Craziness is incoming technologically and societally.

I was thinking recently when reading that OpenAI is piping some of the textual prompts into iPython based on some rules, for example when someone asks for an answer that requires math. I could see ChatGPT piping to "itself" in the background and potentially having specialized AIs that would figure out better prompts from your prompt for example, among other obvious specialised ones like piping to image generation models and so on. You'd obviously also use an AI to choose what to pipe too. I agree with you eventually it'll be AI all the way down.

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

#39

Post by andybak »

jfvinueza wrote: post #18
echelon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?)…

how do magazine ads look dated?

I'm trying to understand what you're asking here and failing.

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

#40

Post by ux-app »

gwoolhurme wrote: post #33
ux-app wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Coding involve care and inspiration give it a rest mate. Most coding is garbage generic gluing of boilerplate and API calls. Aligning buttons and agonizing over 18px vs 20px padding is a monumental waste of human capital. 99.999% of coding is basically an interface to a DB (fetch some data, display it, maybe do some basic arithmetic and then save the data). A machine will do all that drudgery better and quicker. We'…

While I don't disagree with you largely. What a really nasty way to say it no? It's true a lot of what happens is boilerplate API calls and copy pasting of solved problems. AI is making that happen a lot faster, however the parent comment also has some good points. If you work for a large company most of your day is spent understanding domain specific problems then executing on that. It would be nice to see something…

>If you work for a large company most of your day is spent understanding domain specific problems then executing on that.

... which involves fetching some data, displaying it, maybe doing some basic arithmetic and then shuffling it off to a DB?

drudgery.

bring the machines on so we don;t have to deal with this nonsense any more.

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