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Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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

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Post by orose_ »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #62
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…

This will be for real, when I can run this stuff at home. Stable Diffusion is there. But GPT-3 still has to be run on my behalf by a company that could pull the rug at any moment, or add more stuff that they don't approve of to their TOS. (You already can't use it for "sexy" content. Want help writing a love letter? Oh no, you're banned.) The "lighter" versions these text models that can be run at home aren't good en…

You've alluded to my main concern regarding ML models, especially large GPT-3-alikes. Less that they could pull the rug, but rather the more general concern of companies "renting-out" access to these valuable tools that we will likely become dependent upon.

Based on Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, it wouldn't be surprising to me if they also wish to offer access to these AI models via Azure for example as a SaaS offering. Then you can imagine some small start-ups with Billy and Jimmy making some other SaaS product that is based on this very API. It would be a clever way to extract revenue from supposedly novel products whilst controlling and shaping the game.

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

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Post by ilaksh »

slimebot80 wrote: post #32

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 assembl…

It can do it, the challenge is the amount of markup. I have a system that can do it given a template. Which you can generate or manipulate the JSON with the content using the AI, but the template doesn't really fit in memory. Although something like pug.js would fit for a lot of templates but is a security issue.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ux-app wrote: post #40
gwoolhurme wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Post by ux-app »

beepbooptheory wrote: post #79
ux-app wrote: post #63

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>I guess I still don't see your main point though. . . . >You are definitely right that most code is banal and glue looks like you did see my main point.

Just sounds to me like you need a long vacation :)

:)

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

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Post by ilaksh »

paxys wrote: post #25

While such examples are no doubt impressive, I haven't seen these AI tools do anything that couldn't otherwise be achieved by following a simple online tutorial. Bootstrap a fresh project, write hello world or fizzbuzz-equivalent code in a random programming language, generate a landing page...all of these tasks have long been commodified and aren't exactly worth big money. So I'm not scared for my job just yet . "Bu…

That's not true about self driving research plateauing. Tesla, Waymo and Cruise have all made significant progress in the last five years.

What other categories of high tech reached their absolute peak right when everyone started to notice them? We can extrapolate because there are clear trends. And a long history of inventing new things when we hit a bottleneck.

It's like someone looking at a car in the early 1900s and saying "this may be the peak of automotive technology, who knows".

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

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Post by 8note »

krainboltgreene wrote: post #35
ux-app wrote: post #31

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>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.

Most code is glue.

However, that doesn't mean it isn't interesting for data modelling.

I'm very excited to have most of the generic parts automated away

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

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Post by ilaksh »

shostack wrote: post #10
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.

A lot of times just giving it the description of the task and the directory listing is enough. For simple tasks. Other than that you can also using embeddings to search for code that is relevant which OpenAI also has an API for.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ux-app wrote: post #71
shock-value wrote: post #67

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The advancement with these LLMs lies in the fact that they can effectively learn to recognize patterns within “large-ish” input text sequences and probabilistically generate a likely next word given those patterns. It’s a genuine advancement. However it is still just pattern matching. And describing anything it’s doing as “behavior” is a real stretch given that it is a feed-forward network that does not incorporate a…

>However it is still just pattern matching the visual cortex in your brain is also "just a pattern matching" system. guess it's not very impressive by your standard. This[1] isn't my example (it's from another HN user), but if you work as a programmer and you're not absolutely jaw on the floor astonished by this example then I don't know what to say. Explaining[2] the emergent behaviour is literally cutting edge rese…

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

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Post by narag »

mistercow wrote: post #46
krainboltgreene wrote: post #34

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

This seems to be a really common sentiment, and I find it very strange. Why do people think that the level of enthusiasm and hype for a technology is predictive of its likelihood to fizzle? Both real, world-changing tech and overhyped tech will create enthusiasm. You have to look deeper than the tone of voice people are using to talk about a technology to understand its potential.

This seems to be a really common sentiment, and I find it very strange.

The pattern: new thing -> decide if good or bad -> hype or attack.

Waiting to see how it evolves and gathering pros or cons is boring. Using it? Boring. Thinking? Better see if there's some expert you trust that has some opinion already. Readiness is all.

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

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Post by ColonelPhantom »

BMorearty wrote: post #78
LeoPanthera wrote: post #74

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There's a huge difference between utility software, especially utilities that are inherently network-based like "a search engine", and application software used for content creation.

Oh like Google Docs.

If Google Docs suddenly disappeared, everyone would just continue as usual, except that they now use MS Word or LibreOffice instead. If GPT-3 disappeared, what's the alternative?
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