Fwiw just tried the WordPress AI web builder it sucks
Our New AI Website Builder
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> Even the most non-technical people can tell a designer The vast majority of people who want to make a site don't have a designer, and if they could get one the comparison is something that's near instant and costs pennies. > An AI won't be able to understand that, because it can't surf the web, locate the site and analyze what makes it good in the eyes of the customer. Perhaps ignoring the "what makes it good in th…
> although I'd argue that point for many things, these systems often can surf the web, can locate sites, can take images as input and already know many major themes and major sites. But that's not what's being offered here, and my bet is it won't be. It's more lucrative for businesses to put out LLM freemium shovelware and claim it replaces people than do the enormous work of developing the custom models that actuall…
Those are not custom models, image input is standard in flagship models and searching is offered by multiple providers.
Re: Our New AI Website Builder
#74Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't help but feel this is a solution in search of a problem. I feel like "building a simple website" has been a solved issue with templates for decades now. The only thing you need to add is the text, and for a useful website, you're already going to have to be typing 90% of that into the prompt anyway - most of what an LLM is going to add will be more of a value-subtract than a value-add. Su…
> I feel like "building a simple website" has been a solved issue with templates for decades now I did this recently for a friend and 1000% no. It wasn't easy to find a good template or edit it, and things we tried (including various builders) were a massive pain in the arse. I asked sonnet for a site and had it right in a few minutes. I asked for changes and they just worked. It wasn't a complex site but it was dras…
What did Sonnet build it on, that you ended up using it?
One of the drawbacks of all frontier models (with Sonnet being the most extreme) for web dev is their strong preference for React in any kind of situation, even for Wordpress-blog equivalents where it makes no sense.