Meta comment: I've been wondering why AI-generated websites/artifacts/reports always have the same "look". It reminds me of Bootstrap (CSS Framework) days when every startup website looked the same. Are they following some sort of common guideline?
Because most AI generated websites are from people who don't know much and as such cannot even articulate the look they want
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think these guideline are built into the llms. After all with llms, any decision you don't take will be taken for you. For a so called slop site (Simon's words, not mine :P) I don't think they specified a style so the llm just decided the default it knows. One day I will run experiments (when I can afford it) trying to identify the "taste" of different llms.
I told it "Design aesthetic should be technical docs, minimal flare" - full prompt here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625#49505116
nit, the LHS menu does not scroll until I get the the very bottom of the main content, it should scroll independently so I can see the "ToC" in full without having to view the page in full
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#53I think the most interesting skill here is the control-browser one: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/skills/cont... It tells ChatGPT Work how to launch a Playwright instance via its Node.js REPL, and tells it to run: nodeRepl.write(await browser.documentation()); To get further instructions. That method returns this text with full details about how to use the browser: https://codex-tool-reference.simo…
That's a pattern I often follow - refer it to the docs, don't include them. Usually it's another markdown, but sometimes it can be the output of something else. This avoids including any of that in context before it's actually needed.
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#54See this comment for background (and creation prompt): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625#49505116
Simon, thanks for all the great work you do. I definitely appreciate your contributions to discussion threads here as well as your blog. I learned so much from you.
For ultimate show of appreciation, there is a way to subscribe to his work on github :)
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#55Can we get one for how to test websites on a regular sized screen?
That left-hand sidebar needs to be able to scroll on its own, unless you're on a 4k monitor. Otherwise, there's no way to view the bottom half of the list.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I told it "Design aesthetic should be technical docs, minimal flare" - full prompt here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625#49505116
nit, the LHS menu does not scroll until I get the the very bottom of the main content, it should scroll independently so I can see the "ToC" in full without having to view the page in full
Thanks, I passed that on to ChatGPT Work, should be fixed now (I'm on mobile so haven't tried it on desktop yet.)
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#57I don't get how this is different from Codex if Codex can do all the same things.
ChatGPT Work in the ChatGPT desktop app is effectively Codex with a different skin. It can operate on your local files in the same way. ChatGPT Work in the ChatGPT web and mobile app experience is very different. If you like, you can think of it as a cloud-hosted version of Codex that's skinned to look more like consumer ChatGPT.
> ChatGPT Work in the ChatGPT desktop app is effectively Codex with a different skin. It can operate on your local files in the same way.
It even shares the same login state and conversation history with /resume, at least when running it in a "project" (which seems to largely map to a directory/repo, at least the one selected as "primary"?)
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#58Meta comment: I've been wondering why AI-generated websites/artifacts/reports always have the same "look". It reminds me of Bootstrap (CSS Framework) days when every startup website looked the same. Are they following some sort of common guideline?
I keep seeing comments like this, and having messed around and generated a few (non-public) websites myself they all looked completely different?
Mind you I don’t spend a lot of time on ai generated websites or the kinds of places you might find those. Well except for HN but you get my point.
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#60Some of these work tools can slow things down and waste plentiful tokens