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While “silly” this is likely the next paradigm/abstraction for intent based pages. You can imagine given 1,000,000 page views just how many experiments could b

While “silly” this is likely the next paradigm/abstraction for intent based pages. You can imagine given 1,000,000 page views just how many experiments could be run. Basically our A/B tests start to resemble natural evolution and survival of the fittest more than decision trees. However, something feels like it’s missing. I wonder what’s still yet to be built before we arrive at that future.

Stwerner 2y ago
Yeah, totally agree that something related to this will likely be the next paradigm. I've been putting together experiments in different directions trying to find that thing that's missing but haven't really found a killer use case yet to pull it all together. That's a really cool idea that once you can get something somewhat reliably consistent generated, you can kind of let your A/B tests start to run themselves with just rough guidelines on what you're trying to optimize for...
dartos 2y ago
I think that’d make for interesting experiments and fringe sites, I don’t really see like your average e-commerce site ever doing anything like that. You’d want the A and B to be intentional, not automatically generated. Every VP thinks their idea for a feature will revolutionize the company.
- theflyinghorse 2y ago
  > Every VP thinks their idea for a feature will revolutionize the company. Now imagine that everyone of them is given a tool that could get them an POC quickly. I think a lot VPs are about to figure out that their ideas are shit.
  - ljm 2y ago
    This pre-supposes that said VPs have the self-awareness to realise their ideas are shit.
cyanydeez 2y ago
yeah, sorry, I don't want optimal dark patterns. We got enough of that atm.
- bnchrch 2y ago
  Yeah unfortunately the world doesn't care about what we "want" only what it can make us do.
weego 2y ago
Well, you missed the bit where ad and marketing networks get involved and corrupt it into some god-awful granular targeting system.

Stwerner 2y ago

Yeah, totally agree that something related to this will likely be the next paradigm. I've been putting together experiments in different directions trying to find that thing that's missing but haven't really found a killer use case yet to pull it all together. That's a really cool idea that once you can get something somewhat reliably consistent generated, you can kind of let your A/B tests start to run themselves with just rough guidelines on what you're trying to optimize for...

dartos 2y ago

I think that’d make for interesting experiments and fringe sites, I don’t really see like your average e-commerce site ever doing anything like that. You’d want the A and B to be intentional, not automatically generated. Every VP thinks their idea for a feature will revolutionize the company.

theflyinghorse 2y ago
> Every VP thinks their idea for a feature will revolutionize the company. Now imagine that everyone of them is given a tool that could get them an POC quickly. I think a lot VPs are about to figure out that their ideas are shit.
- ljm 2y ago
  This pre-supposes that said VPs have the self-awareness to realise their ideas are shit.

cyanydeez 2y ago

yeah, sorry, I don't want optimal dark patterns. We got enough of that atm.

bnchrch 2y ago
Yeah unfortunately the world doesn't care about what we "want" only what it can make us do.

weego 2y ago

Well, you missed the bit where ad and marketing networks get involved and corrupt it into some god-awful granular targeting system.