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Reflecting on WikiTok

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Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by aizk »

slevis wrote: post #13
lwansbrough wrote: post #5

> I built wikitok.io in about 2 hours (but not the iphone app that doesn't work, nor the play store rip off, nor wikitok.net but I'm getting ahead of myself). It all came from this tweet. This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". I see the author is OP, so my suggestion might be to consider rephrasing a bit as it comes off a bit accusatory. I did try my hand on t…

> This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". The author is giving credit. Literally the opposite of your interpretation. > I had the same idea in my notes app dated a couple years ago. On the other hand this seems as if you now want to claim to be the inventor of the idea?

A mixture of both. Some of those were copycats and some of those came before me, (the iPhone app, but I didn't know about it when I made the website). The point I was making was there's lots of clones happening when you go viral.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by tonyhart7 »

aizk wrote: post #19
dev_chhatbar wrote: post #17

I really like this idea! Thank you for making it! I personally prefer web-apps to phone-apps but wouldn't mind installing one if its in the pipeline from OP!

There is no phone app! There's a progressive web app you can download. Funnily, I thought I solved the mobile issue making the PWA until I realized 99% of people have no idea what a progressive web app is.

"I realized 99% of people have no idea what a progressive web app."

I never used it, Yeah I know it exist but who tf use that???? and I'm considering myself "techy"

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by aizk »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #22
aizk wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no phone app! There's a progressive web app you can download. Funnily, I thought I solved the mobile issue making the PWA until I realized 99% of people have no idea what a progressive web app is.

"I realized 99% of people have no idea what a progressive web app." I never used it, Yeah I know it exist but who tf use that???? and I'm considering myself "techy"

Yeah I had a request on GitHub for it, so I implemented it! But it was only a "fix" for a very specific technical group people, not ALL the users. Good lesson learned there.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by johnisgood »

Jdfmiller wrote: post #9

This: And with regards to AI taking jobs - it obviously will become a serious problem in future. But being a doomer right now is like lying down in a parking lot waiting to get run over - you're surrendering to a pointless outcome while the rest of the world keeps moving. Great sentiment. I've had a similar experience with LLMs and writing code - helpful when keeping the requests small, and a background in the area i…

> and a background in the area is essential

Yes, precisely. Maybe one could (re)make something using LLMs without understanding a thing, but that is as good as copy pasting from SO without understanding.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by aizk »

timkq wrote: post #2

It's great that LLMs provide opportunity for non-software engineers to make tech products, but I wonder how those "vibe-coded" products will fare when faced with actually maintaining the code (and also accounting for tech debt..)

Does writing software with an LLM not make me a software engineer?

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by lwansbrough »

aizk wrote: post #18
lwansbrough wrote: post #5

> I built wikitok.io in about 2 hours (but not the iphone app that doesn't work, nor the play store rip off, nor wikitok.net but I'm getting ahead of myself). It all came from this tweet. This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". I see the author is OP, so my suggestion might be to consider rephrasing a bit as it comes off a bit accusatory. I did try my hand on t…

The point of that phrase was just to highlight the derivatives the I had no affiliation with. I built it and marketed it, but the idea came from some tweets that were gaining momentum.

Oh I see. My apologies, my assumption was that you had wrote the tweet.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by janalsncm »

Disagree on the “algorithm” bit but that’s ok.

“Random” is an algorithm. It just says that the next article you should read has no relationship with anything you’ve read before. That is a point of view. It’s good for an “explore” phase, where you want to expose yourself to as much variety as possible.

But eventually most people want to “exploit” their impressions from before. Just like I don’t want to always roll the dice on restaurants, sometimes I want to go back to one that I know is good.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by vondur »

johnisgood wrote: post #24
Jdfmiller wrote: post #9

This: And with regards to AI taking jobs - it obviously will become a serious problem in future. But being a doomer right now is like lying down in a parking lot waiting to get run over - you're surrendering to a pointless outcome while the rest of the world keeps moving. Great sentiment. I've had a similar experience with LLMs and writing code - helpful when keeping the requests small, and a background in the area i…

> and a background in the area is essential Yes, precisely. Maybe one could (re)make something using LLMs without understanding a thing, but that is as good as copy pasting from SO without understanding.

> but that is as good as copy pasting from SO without understanding.

I'm sure there are a large amount of programmers who do this quite often..

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by the-chitmonger »

Hey, I'm also a former civil engineer-turned SWE in the NJ/NYC area! Nice to know that there are more of us out there. I already spend hours looking through Wikipedia articles, so when your site dropped I was on it right away. I dodged the AI conversation entirely by getting into a state government position where my job is all but guaranteed by the union.
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