Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
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Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
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Re: Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
#2This is what we are all working for. If we can automate the stupid stuff we do then we can work on other interesting stuff and automate it too.
I don't understand why we aren't all working on automating everything that we do.
Every line of code you pulled out of the code mine today is finite and given a business logic rule engine it's outcome could have been generated.
Re: Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
#3Aren't there a bunch of WYSIWYG tools for creating appearance and HTML/CSS together? Years ago when I looked, these existed (but designers prefered photoshop just because).
I mean, I'd assume also there's normally a give-and-take between designer, CSS-artist and client. The question is whether the neural network can also learn to take calls at 3am from a client wanting a different shade of aqua.
Re: Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
#4This is what we are all working for. If we can automate the stupid stuff we do then we can work on other interesting stuff and automate it too. I don't understand why we aren't all working on automating everything that we do. Every line of code you pulled out of the code mine today is finite and given a business logic rule engine it's outcome could have been generated.
Because we like being employed. I don't get paid by increasing the global productivity of society. The idiot who automates their own job (and shares it with their employer) is much more likely to be impoverished than lauded.
Re: Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
#5This is what we are all working for. If we can automate the stupid stuff we do then we can work on other interesting stuff and automate it too. I don't understand why we aren't all working on automating everything that we do. Every line of code you pulled out of the code mine today is finite and given a business logic rule engine it's outcome could have been generated.
Because we like being employed. I don't get paid by increasing the global productivity of society. The idiot who automates their own job (and shares it with their employer) is much more likely to be impoverished than lauded.
I see this attitude all the time while people are being automated out of their jobs. Those people end up getting laid off anyway, and then wondering why jobs for their skillset don't pay as much as they used to.
Resisting automation doesn't help, because if you don't do it, someone else eventually will.
If you're in a job that's at risk of being automated in the near term, you're much better off learning how to automate it and switching to being one of the automators, than continuing doing something that's all but proven to be something machines can do. People capable of automating jobs out of existence are in high demand, for obvious reasons.
If you're not capable of becoming an automator, that's more of a problem. In that case you probably need a strategy for moving into a different kind of job, that's less threatened.
Re: Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
#6Writing HTML and CSS to implement a mockup is trivial for anyone with even a little bit of web dev experience. If you want high quality code, an AI isn't going to produce that.
I can't imagine ever using something so complex, if I can implement the same thing in a few minutes.
There's also further considerations when dealing with the real world. For example, you need to be aware of how to handle different accessibility features. Designers rarely seem to care about things like accessibility, but it needs to be declared somewhere.
Re: Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because we like being employed. I don't get paid by increasing the global productivity of society. The idiot who automates their own job (and shares it with their employer) is much more likely to be impoverished than lauded.
I see this attitude all the time while people are being automated out of their jobs. Those people end up getting laid off anyway, and then wondering why jobs for their skillset don't pay as much as they used to. Resisting automation doesn't help, because if you don't do it, someone else eventually will. If you're in a job that's at risk of being automated in the near term, you're much better off learning how to autom…
You say it like there's something to do, but in your formulation it's actually a lose-lose situation. Either you automate and get fucked, or someone else does and you get fucked anyway. Either way you have to try and find a different job, which isn't free, costless, or painless.
Yes, automation creates better global productivity, but it also creates concentrated harms that are almost never redressed. Similar problem as outsourcing/free trade.
Re: Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
#8This is what we are all working for. If we can automate the stupid stuff we do then we can work on other interesting stuff and automate it too. I don't understand why we aren't all working on automating everything that we do. Every line of code you pulled out of the code mine today is finite and given a business logic rule engine it's outcome could have been generated.
Because we like being employed. I don't get paid by increasing the global productivity of society. The idiot who automates their own job (and shares it with their employer) is much more likely to be impoverished than lauded.
But some of us are very easily bored. Being trapped doing the same job for a few years is torture. So automating the stuff thats boring becomes very attractive. I cant imagine how unpleasant it will be if i have to write html and css for the rest of my life, automation cant come quickly enough. In fact I have a break between contracts coming up and i intend to monetise this technique.
Re: Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
#9This is what we are all working for. If we can automate the stupid stuff we do then we can work on other interesting stuff and automate it too. I don't understand why we aren't all working on automating everything that we do. Every line of code you pulled out of the code mine today is finite and given a business logic rule engine it's outcome could have been generated.
> This is what we are all working for. If we can automate the stupid stuff we do then we can work on other interesting stuff and automate it too.
Read: Designing your job out from under your own feet
Also read: Becoming unemployable through your own making
Re: Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
#10This is what we are all working for. If we can automate the stupid stuff we do then we can work on other interesting stuff and automate it too. I don't understand why we aren't all working on automating everything that we do. Every line of code you pulled out of the code mine today is finite and given a business logic rule engine it's outcome could have been generated.
Because we like being employed. I don't get paid by increasing the global productivity of society. The idiot who automates their own job (and shares it with their employer) is much more likely to be impoverished than lauded.
Attempting to prevent this happening by ignoring it is more foolish.