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Expanding access to Opal, our no-code AI mini-app builder
- DataDaemon 1y agoliving in the EU feels like living in the Stone Age
- sjbr 1y agoAt least you are getting chat control.
- dmitrygr 1y agoNobody in the stone age voted to live in the stone age, ignoring all warnings that their vote would produce a stone age.
- simonjgreen 1y agoOr like there is an expectation companies will treat your information with respect and act with integrity. It is unfortunate that that causes companies to have to think for longer about how they will act before they do.
- nicce 1y agoOpenAI tried without real regulation and we see how that turned out.
- dmitrygr 1y ago> It is unfortunate that that causes companies to have to think for longer It is basic market dynamics that the harder you make it to enter a market, the more reluctant entrants will be. Whether the regulation that makes market entry more difficult is "good" or "bad" is simply irrelevant.
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- yanosc 1y agoIf you think a node-based editor makes a society modern, you have no idea what you are talking about, and you are foolish enough to believe this is what progress looks like. Not to discredit OAI, but you are just a victim of their marketing, chasing the next thing, which is merely an illusion of innovation, and it works because it fills your lack of true belonging. Do as you wish, you are a free consumer after all, but don’t go on the internet and discredit other people, their work and contribution, just because you’re are pathetic bystander yourself.
- gundmc 1y agoSeems like cool framework, but I'm bothered by the example image around having AI research and generate a blog post. This is exactly the sort of thing I don't want.
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- dang 1y agoMost of us probably agree, but can you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? We want curious conversation here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ngruhn 1y agoName one successful no-code solution. Not snark. I'm serious. Give me examples. In my experience, these no-code tools either die being too simple or live long enough to be patched into fully fledged visual programming languages. At which point the promised simplicity is gone. Idk, maybe with AI it's different.
- mjr00 1y agoReally depends on the scope of the solution; a lot of web development has gone no-code through the use of frameworks and platforms like Wix, Unbounce, Squarespace, Shopify, Gumroad, etc. Like it's crazy to think, but 15 years ago if you were a person with a single widget you wanted to sell over the internet (even a digital widget with no shipping logistics!) it was a big hassle that involved a lot of programming and hooking up various APIs. Now you can get a full e-commerce site with analytics and payments integrated fairly easily with basically no technical knowledge. The counter-argument is that these tools are too narrowly scoped, but I think that's exactly what made them successful; their "no-code" tools provided a solution for a common problem. Ultimately I agree with what you're getting at. There's never been a successful no-code, or even low-code, replacement for general purpose programming, and there never will be.
- ngruhn 1y agoFair enough. Those website builders have their place. I'm rather thinking of something like NodeRed where you specify control flow. But with boxes and arrows instead of code. Which is also what this Google product seems to do.
- blast 1y agoReplit
- holografix 1y agoUnreal Engine’s Blueprints
- shmoogy 1y agoNode Red, N8N, and Zapier I think are the biggest ones. I think the cool idea of AI implemented no code is, in theory, you can add a new node - tell the AI what to do, and it can build custom logic to do whatever it is that you want with the input. Thats probably verging on too high of a complexity for end users, but if you can obfuscate the black box and have it work well enough, it can definitely be big.
- Onavo 1y agoWhat happened to Microsoft's low code AI builder? https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/microsoft-acquires-lobe-a-drag-and-drop-ai-tool/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/microsoft-acquires-lobe-a-...
- holografix 1y agoWhat about jules.google.com ? Are these competing products?
- danpalmer 1y agoThis is a no-code app building framework, Jules is a coding agent that will write whatever you ask it to, so, no. You could use them to achieve the same result, but they are for very different purposes and target audiences.
- nextworddev 1y agoThis was a garbage product compared to n8n
- usrxcghghj 1y agogoogle as a product company is pretty lame these days. its too bad because i know without a doubt some incredibly talent and intelligent people work there. But maybe in the past 10 years? or so. LAME
- cadamsdotcom 1y agoWhatever this product is, it shows what an org can achieve when staff care only about promotions. Can't fault Google employees - the software retirement village is comfy. But it's a big opportunity cost for society.
- puppycodes 1y agoThe example they show... generating a garbage AI generated blog.
- puppycodes 1y agoI can smell its sunset already.