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I've gone from being blown away by what LLMs could do with web design (I mean, it's impressive, especially what it does purely without vision...) to wishing it
by jchw 17d ago
I've gone from being blown away by what LLMs could do with web design (I mean, it's impressive, especially what it does purely without vision...) to wishing it couldn't. Everything has become "same"y in a way that is hard to describe, kinda like AI generated images. Panda riding a unicorn? Impressive the first time. 1000 uncanny piss filter Pixar images later, you are begging for mediocrity to come back.
Not that the README is any better. It's just a long string of Claudisms. Fuck.
"Don't you ever get bored of pointing out that everything is AI slop?" Yes. I am very bored of pointing this out. I'll let you know when getting bored of it fixes the problem. I'm sorry if you think slop that will likely be unmaintained in a month and can be done even better by next month's model releases anyways is worth taking up a massive chunk of the HN frontpage forever, but I just don't agree.
- MichaelDickens 17d agoI feel like we need some version of "increase the temperature" that works at a macro scale instead of on individual tokens.
- efskap 17d agoThere's an interesting prompting technique for this that asks the model to start with a random string that is then manipulated into the answer: https://pub.sakana.ai/ssot/ https://pub.sakana.ai/ssot/
- snmx999 17d agoThe README is actually much better. Before AI it was three sentences or a placeholder template and you were complaining how nobody writes decent documentation. Now that the README actually describes what the project is all about you don't read it because "it's AI slop".
- jchw 17d ago> you were complaining how nobody writes decent documentation They still don't. > Now that the README actually describes what the project is all about you don't read it because "it's AI slop". Going from no documentation to very bad documentation is closer to a lateral move. I do think repos with only AI slop docs should probably just delete them. They are absolutely worse than nothing in most cases.