Every website looks so similar in design to one another that it feels eerie
Fun fact: It would take ~278 hours to take a look at 1M websites for 1s each.
Readit Newsawb commented on One Million Screenshots onemillionscreenshots.com... · Posted by u/gaws
It would be interesting to analyze this dataset in terms of colors, layout, features, fonts, photos, etc. to be able to statistically measure the uniqueness or creativity of a given web design.
awb commented on LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/tudorizer
Can authors of such articles at least cite Dijkstra's "On the foolishness of "natural language programming"." which appeared eons ago ? Which presents an argument against the "english is a programming language" hype.
[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
Interesting read and thanks for sharing.
Two observations:
1. Natural language appears to be to be the starting point of any endeavor.
2.
> It may be illuminating to try to imagine what would have happened if, right from the start our native tongue would have been the only vehicle for the input into and the output from our information processing equipment. My considered guess is that history would, in a sense, have repeated itself, and that computer science would consist mainly of the indeed black art how to bootstrap from there to a sufficiently well-defined formal system. We would need all the intellect in the world to get the interface narrow enough to be usable, and, in view of the history of mankind, it may not be overly pessimistic to guess that to do the job well enough would require again a few thousand years.
LLMs are trying to replicate all of the intellect in the world.
I’m curious if the author would consider that these lofty caveats may be more plausible today than they were when the text was written.
awb commented on Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/davidbarker
This is starting to encroach on Lovable, right? I do suspect the effect of these "vibe coded" apps on the SaaS market will be smaller than expected. Heavier-featured apps will have all sorts of functionality and polish a user won't even think to ask Claude to build. And the amount of effort to describe everything you need an app to do is higher than it seems.
Instead, I think this is going to open a new paradigm with an immense long-tail of hyper-niche fit-for-purpose business applications. There's so much small-scale work that happens in corporations that isn't common enough to be worth building a product to solve. But it's still a big time-saving to the departments/users if they can improve the process with a vibe-coded app!
Hyper-niche products come with some inherent risk that it’s not always profitable to maintain or develop them long-term.
With a mass market product leader you’re sacrificing a bit of customization for long-term stability.
awb commented on Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet research.roundtable.ai/pr... · Posted by u/timshell
It is late and I am thinking out load. How about a reputation system where users bring proof that other websites haven't found them abusive.
Visit a website that require identification. Generate a random unique identifier in your user agent. Live your life on that site. Download from that site a certificate that prove that your didn't abuse their site. Repeat that a few times.
Visit the site that wants to know if you are an abusive user. Share your certificates. They get to choose if they accept you.
If you abuse that site, it reports the abuse to the other sites that delivered you a certificate. Those sites gets to decide if they revoke their certificate or not.
It is a self policying system that require some level of cooperation. Users make themselves vulnerable to the risk of having sites they like loose trust in them.
PageRank worked well for Google for a long time. This sounds like an adaptation of that that’s interesting to consider.
awb commented on AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/kjhughes
Personally, the best soups I’ve ever had were not made in kitchens that were optimized for efficiency or automation, they were optimized for quality.
They weren’t cheap soups, but they sure were good.
Luxury goods and staple goods have distinct optimizations, both viable for generating profits and economic utility.
A high end soup and an affordable soup might be serving two different markets.
IMO, it depends. I’ve worked with hundreds of startups over the last 20 years. The most significant trend I’ve seen is cultural cohesion. Some startups have a young, energetic culture. Some have an experienced, veteran culture. Some have a quirky, trendy culture.
But overall many companies seem to value and attract more of the same culture they already have in place. So to a degree, I’d say yes ageism exists in certain companies that don’t value experience as highly as other qualities.
awb commented on Prompt engineering playbook for programmers addyo.substack.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/vinhnx
If people feel that they need to learn different language patterns in order to communicate effectively in their native language with an LLM then I'm not sure if I agree. I think that if your native language truly was a programming language then there wouldn't be any need for prompt engineering.
Regardless, I think that programmers are quite well-suited to the methods described in the article, but only in the same way that programmers are generally better at Googling things than the average person; they can imagine what the system needs to see in order to produce the result they want even if that isn't necessarily a natural description of their problem.
As an engineer, if you’ve had a skilled Project Manager you’ve receive detailed, thoughtful “prompts” on how to complete a project that leads to a shared understanding. But with unskilled Project Managers you might receive a vague “prompt” that leads to ambiguity and misalignment. And Project Managers can go through training or read books on how to effectively “prompt” (aka communicate) more effectively.
When I say that your native language is now a programming language, I mean that you are now the Project Manager, and the code is generated automatically. But because the code is auto-generated, the focus shifts towards the “prompt” as the first and potentially only step in generating code.
Occam's Razor should not be used for self-harm. Two of the guys at the head of the biggest open conspiracies in the world are likely to be conspiring if their actions result in favorable conditions.
This social media spat is happening immediately after "Welcomefest," a bizarre Republican-light centrist conference, and positions Elon Musk to capture the centrist Democratic apparatus. This follows a pattern of fecklessness and capitulation from the party's power centers, including major Democratic figures advocating for realignment with MAGA on core issues.
There's another pattern too: we have seen a concerted effort from the MAGA movement to capture societal institutions and forcibly reform them into alignment with their radical agenda to replace the US Constitution. Aligning the DNC into a technocratic fascist organization that supports their monarchic visions of domination will be an incredible humiliation (though far from the last). And quite simple.
I'm going to assume conspiracy from the guys arrogant enough to get caught boasting that the opposition is too credulous to accept an open conspiracy.
I’m not debating the potential accuracy of anyone’s interpretation, just commenting on the degree of simplicity of those interpretations.
It’s a Razor, not a law, so it isn’t going to be 100% accuracy or predictive. But to suggest that the Razor can be used in conjunction with a long, complex explanation is a contradiction.
these two are masters of social media. occams razor suggests that they planned this in advance for some other purpose. my guess is theyre hoping this will cause tesla stock to rise.
Actually, Occam’s razor would suggest that their words be taken at face value. A hidden agenda is not the simplest explanation.