I'm absolutely right

#1

Post by yoavfr » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 12:36 PM UTC

I'm absolutely right
absolutelyright.lol

Re: I'm absolutely right

#2

Post by stuartjohnson12 » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 1:14 PM UTC

I /adore/ the hand-drawn styling of this webpage (although the punchline, domain name, and beautiful overengineering are great too). Where did it come from? Is it home grown?

Re: I'm absolutely right

#3

Post by tyushk » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 1:14 PM UTC

I wonder if this is a tactic that LLM providers use to coerce the model into doing something.

Gemini will often start responses that use the canvas tool with "Of course", which would force the model into going down a line of tokens that end up with attempting to fulfill the user's request. It happens often enough that it seems like it's not being generated by the model, but instead inserted by the backend. Maybe "you're absolutely right" is used the same way?

Re: I'm absolutely right

#4

Post by latexr » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 1:14 PM UTC

As I opened the website, the “16” changed to “17”. This looked interesting, as if the data were being updated live just as I loaded the page. Alas, a refresh (and quick check in the Developer Tools) reveals it’s fake and always does the transition. It’s a cool effect, but feels like a dirty trick.

Re: I'm absolutely right

#5

Post by latexr » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

stuartjohnson12 wrote: post #2

I /adore/ the hand-drawn styling of this webpage (although the punchline, domain name, and beautiful overengineering are great too). Where did it come from? Is it home grown?

It’s a library (not by the same author).

https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz

Re: I'm absolutely right

#6

Post by stuartjohnson12 » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #4

As I opened the website, the “16” changed to “17”. This looked interesting, as if the data were being updated live just as I loaded the page. Alas, a refresh (and quick check in the Developer Tools) reveals it’s fake and always does the transition. It’s a cool effect, but feels like a dirty trick.

It is fetching data from an API though - it's just the live updates that are a trick.

Re: I'm absolutely right

#7

Post by tantalor » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #4

As I opened the website, the “16” changed to “17”. This looked interesting, as if the data were being updated live just as I loaded the page. Alas, a refresh (and quick check in the Developer Tools) reveals it’s fake and always does the transition. It’s a cool effect, but feels like a dirty trick.

It's a dark pattern

Re: I'm absolutely right

#8

Post by yoavfr » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 1:17 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #4

As I opened the website, the “16” changed to “17”. This looked interesting, as if the data were being updated live just as I loaded the page. Alas, a refresh (and quick check in the Developer Tools) reveals it’s fake and always does the transition. It’s a cool effect, but feels like a dirty trick.

Sorry if that felt dirty - I thought about it as a signal that the data is live (it is!).

Re: I'm absolutely right

#9

Post by blitzar » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 1:17 PM UTC

I know!

Re: I'm absolutely right

#10

Post by stuartjohnson12 » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 1:17 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #5

stuartjohnson12 wrote: post #2

I /adore/ the hand-drawn styling of this webpage (although the punchline, domain name, and beautiful overengineering are great too). Where did it come from? Is it home grown?

It’s a library (not by the same author). https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz

Wow this is gorgeous, definitely finding a way to shoehorn this into my next project. Even if it's not by the same author, I am grateful to both you and him for making me aware of this nifty library :)