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I feel this article really needs a proper introduction. It starts "When I first rolled out this Apple-style frontend UI, it looked sleek, and I was genuinely ex

I feel this article really needs a proper introduction. It starts "When I first rolled out this Apple-style frontend UI, it looked sleek, and I was genuinely excited." but it never explains what the UI was for. The first picture is of a basketball stats site but it end with "Medications for Menstrual Pain" which is captioned as "interative [?] background". What UI is this post actually talking about?

stavros 1y ago
I am similarly confused. I thought it was about the model, but then it mentions a grid system, typography, JS? Then I was wondering if it was about the editor AWS released, as it was similarly named and maybe I conflated the two, but that doesn't make sense in this context either. I read the whole thing and still I'm not sure what it's about.
evertedsphere 1y ago
the generated ui that their "deep research" tool uses to present a report
billrobertson42 1y ago
When you're writing a release, or about some detail of your project, you need to directly give new readers background, or at least provide some navigation to something else that provides background. A lot of tech and tech-adjacent writing is like that these days. Our cool project X now does Y! With no introduction about what X is, or even a link to something that describes it. So most readers are left to wonder about why should care. At times, I've even tracked down X's github repo only to find that their README has the same problem. It's an easy trap to fall in when you write. It's easy to feel like you're over-explaining things. You, the author, know what it is, and likely many of the people who follow X know too. The problem comes when some curious person outside of the Xosphere takes a look. Chances are good you'll lose most, if not all, of them. If you want people to be interested in your X, then make sure they have a way of learning about your X when you introduce improvement Y.
mrala 1y ago
Yes, if you have never heard of Kimi Research, it is unclear what the article is about. It seems to be referring to Moonshot AI’s product called Kimi. https://www.moonshot.ai/ https://www.moonshot.ai/ https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-Researcher/ https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-Researcher/

stavros 1y ago

I am similarly confused. I thought it was about the model, but then it mentions a grid system, typography, JS? Then I was wondering if it was about the editor AWS released, as it was similarly named and maybe I conflated the two, but that doesn't make sense in this context either. I read the whole thing and still I'm not sure what it's about.

evertedsphere 1y ago

the generated ui that their "deep research" tool uses to present a report

billrobertson42 1y ago

When you're writing a release, or about some detail of your project, you need to directly give new readers background, or at least provide some navigation to something else that provides background. A lot of tech and tech-adjacent writing is like that these days. Our cool project X now does Y! With no introduction about what X is, or even a link to something that describes it. So most readers are left to wonder about why should care. At times, I've even tracked down X's github repo only to find that their README has the same problem. It's an easy trap to fall in when you write. It's easy to feel like you're over-explaining things. You, the author, know what it is, and likely many of the people who follow X know too. The problem comes when some curious person outside of the Xosphere takes a look. Chances are good you'll lose most, if not all, of them. If you want people to be interested in your X, then make sure they have a way of learning about your X when you introduce improvement Y.

mrala 1y ago

Yes, if you have never heard of Kimi Research, it is unclear what the article is about. It seems to be referring to Moonshot AI’s product called Kimi. https://www.moonshot.ai/ https://www.moonshot.ai/ https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-Researcher/ https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-Researcher/