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Re: I think I need to go lie down

#21
post #7

Can we please stop posting twitter links? It's a horror show of a website, especially if you don't have an account.

I’m confused - what are you specifically having problems with?

I’m not logged in and the site loaded fine on mobile and then again on desktop. The video played immediately, I didn’t see any ads. Are you hoping to be able to comment without an account? That’s usually not how things work.

I’m guessing this is another case of Elon induced nerd grumpiness?

Re: I think I need to go lie down

#22
post #4

Lets make ourselves redundant. At least I won't have to relearn JS every 2 weeks.

If there is one good thing going to come out of EVEN the fairly clumsy LLMs, it is that we probably can forget about this js frontend framework crap and can focus on work instead of figuring out what the taste-du-jour is. It won't matter; the LLM will translate it.

Re: I think I need to go lie down

#23
Squarespace, Wix etc have already taken the bottom of the market, and if they hadn’t, Indian outsourcing would have anyway.

This is the logical progression of those same concepts. If I were a product manager at a website builder, I’d be all over integrating ai builders like this. It will never work for barely defined complex business tasks, but it might do fine to create a cost estimator for a photography business, for example.

Re: I think I need to go lie down

#24
post #7

Can we please stop posting twitter links? It's a horror show of a website, especially if you don't have an account.

I’m confused - what are you specifically having problems with? I’m not logged in and the site loaded fine on mobile and then again on desktop. The video played immediately, I didn’t see any ads. Are you hoping to be able to comment without an account? That’s usually not how things work. I’m guessing this is another case of Elon induced nerd grumpiness?

The cookie terror footer? The additional giant sign up bar? The fact that after a few seconds it will just hide everything behind a giant black pop-up about enabling notifications?

Malware websites are less awful than this.

Re: I think I need to go lie down

#25
post #4

Lets make ourselves redundant. At least I won't have to relearn JS every 2 weeks.

These little demos of toy UIs are cute but humans can still hold the context of a whole codebase in their heads.

We're not quite at the level (yet) of feeding a whole codebase to an LLM and making it add features or make changes while understanding the big picture of the problem being solved, being consistent with the design principles and coding style of the overall existing codebase. And I'm not even talking about creating complex UIs where performance matters

Another issue I've ran into a lot is staleness of the knowledge the LLM was trained on, a lot of libraries and frameworks get really frequent, quite often breaking changes, and LLMs have a cutoff date.

Try using ChatGPT for something like Godot's GDScript, it will always try to use old Godot v3 style scripting because that's what it's been taught, and the whole documentation for Godot v4 is not something small enough to just fit into context

Maybe this would be a better fit for some agent type workflow where it can decide what to lookup from the documentation and then retrieve it, but it also needs to know and decide what to look up and how. There is still a lot to figure out

Re: I think I need to go lie down

#26
post #7

Can we please stop posting twitter links? It's a horror show of a website, especially if you don't have an account.

One forum I frequent automatically replaces Twitter links with nitter.net, which still isn't great but at least lets you see the post.

It’s a lot better as it lets you see the replies / thread which xitter has stopped showing and does not drive engagement it.

Re: I think I need to go lie down

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m confused - what are you specifically having problems with? I’m not logged in and the site loaded fine on mobile and then again on desktop. The video played immediately, I didn’t see any ads. Are you hoping to be able to comment without an account? That’s usually not how things work. I’m guessing this is another case of Elon induced nerd grumpiness?

The cookie terror footer? The additional giant sign up bar? The fact that after a few seconds it will just hide everything behind a giant black pop-up about enabling notifications? Malware websites are less awful than this.

Also that it has stopped showing either the post being replied (unless RT-replied) to or any of the replies so you just have one item with no context available.

Re: I think I need to go lie down

#29
post #7

Can we please stop posting twitter links? It's a horror show of a website, especially if you don't have an account.

I’m confused - what are you specifically having problems with? I’m not logged in and the site loaded fine on mobile and then again on desktop. The video played immediately, I didn’t see any ads. Are you hoping to be able to comment without an account? That’s usually not how things work. I’m guessing this is another case of Elon induced nerd grumpiness?

Not who you’re replying to but: Im on iOS using the HACK app and the built in safari web view wouldn’t play the videos, and same in chrome. So now I’ve given up.

Also, if I clicked into the tweet (xeet?) in the web view and hit “open in system browser”, I just got an X “something went wrong” page. Also if I opened the first video that failed to play, closed it, and clicked the second video, the first would attempt to load again instead until I reloaded the whole page and clicked the second…that still failed to play

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