And start a fucking webring!
Have a fucking website
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Re: Have a fucking website
#382Someone wrote and deleted a comment saying > I don't get it. LLMs are supposed to have 100% bridged this gap from "normie" to "DIY website." What's missing? This is an all too common thought process among technologists, so: Where to even start? Well, let's start that every single "AI" company is massively overhyping everything to try to avoid any unfortunate realizations about the emperor's clothes regarding their Ca…
The way to get a website for your small restaurant used to be having Jim's nephew make one for you and you'd give him a pizza and a six pack as payment for setting it up.
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#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
I often turn to the saying "Rich people don't talk to robots". Time poor people want things done for them not by them. The agency of action needs to be delegated. Just because Flight Centre can automatically line up your flights for you, doesn't mean they want to. Time poor people still don't have time to go through that nor do they want to. They ask their assistant to do it, their assistant knows them well and fills…
If you're time-poor maybe you're not as rich as you think. The richest person I know talks to robots all the time.
Oh I am not speaking from experience here, I'll clear that up.
Also the original saying used rich people but I think it better pertains to busy people in general.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Time-poor" rather than "time poor" would make this a lot more readable. I struggled a bit on the first go of reading. Otherwise, totally agree.
Referring to a person rich enough to buy human labor as “time poor” is interesting because poorer people working 12+ hour shifts who don’t get paid time off or holidays would consider themselves “time poor”.
Agreed to be fair, the saying better pertains to time-poor people but I didn't want to misrepresent the original idiom.
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#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
I often turn to the saying "Rich people don't talk to robots". Time poor people want things done for them not by them. The agency of action needs to be delegated. Just because Flight Centre can automatically line up your flights for you, doesn't mean they want to. Time poor people still don't have time to go through that nor do they want to. They ask their assistant to do it, their assistant knows them well and fills…
"Time-poor" rather than "time poor" would make this a lot more readable. I struggled a bit on the first go of reading. Otherwise, totally agree.
I can see that when reading it back, I'll keep it in mind.
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Millenniales delendi sunt." Now, write it out a hundred times. If it's not done by sunrise...
looks up latin conjugation chart fuck this i'll learn mandarin instead
It's not the conjugations that scare most people, it's the declensions (ok, well, at least anglophones).
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
All of the demos of booking travel using AI are hilarious to me. This used to be a job a travel agent did, and planning a trip was either a fun conversation or you could be like "send me somewhere warm" and let them do it. Is it cheaper now that you can swear at flight booking software yourself, and scream at the hotel when they cancel your rooms that you got from a third party site that went through some other inter…
> Oh sure, all the web searches and ads are targeted in a way that you're going to end up at the same place a travel agent would have put you, but you can perceive the freedom of choice along the way! And you can enjoy all the risk and liability for mistakes made along the way, too, which is where the actual optimization happened in the economy.
What did travel agents do when they made a mistake? I don’t think they reimbursed people?
Re: Have a fucking website
#388Someone wrote and deleted a comment saying > I don't get it. LLMs are supposed to have 100% bridged this gap from "normie" to "DIY website." What's missing? This is an all too common thought process among technologists, so: Where to even start? Well, let's start that every single "AI" company is massively overhyping everything to try to avoid any unfortunate realizations about the emperor's clothes regarding their Ca…
I often turn to the saying "Rich people don't talk to robots". Time poor people want things done for them not by them. The agency of action needs to be delegated. Just because Flight Centre can automatically line up your flights for you, doesn't mean they want to. Time poor people still don't have time to go through that nor do they want to. They ask their assistant to do it, their assistant knows them well and fills…
Why can’t people just ask for simpler, less custom, prebuilt websites? If you want a custom app then you can always create spaghetti logic, but does a restaurant or small accounting firm really need that?
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#389This matches exactly what I see building software for small merchants
in the GCC. A coffee shop owner in Riyadh is working 14 hour days.
The barrier isn't technical ability or even cost. It's that every
solution requires context they don't have and time they don't have.
The products that work are the ones where the merchant never has to think about the technology at all. They just see customers coming back.
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Get a VPS with an nginx image pre-installed You probably already lost 90% of 'normies'. Most people won't be able to or willing to do that on their own. They could learn it of course, but they don't bother. https://xkcd.com/2501/
The reality is much much easier. You just google "I want a website" or "give me a .com" and click links until you get some free website builder or a webhosting company who will take your credit card and give you very easy to follow directions to choose a domain name and then takes you right into their online builder where everything is super user friendly and not much different than leaving a post on a social media p…
after
>will take your credit card
I expected you will go on with a joke how they will get scammed out of their money.
But then you went on and it made me think: people in question also trust these big name platforms. If they have just enough grit to try something on their own, they have, usually, enough of healthy view on themselves to know that they aren't sure how can they make this safely.