topoftheforts (u/topoftheforts)

topoftheforts commented on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/ulrischa

dools · a year ago

> Understanding what kind of tasks LLMs can and cannot reliably solve remains incredibly difficult and unintuitive.

Case in point: the other day my daughter was doing a presentation and she said "Dad can you help me find a picture of the word HELLO spelled out in vegetables?"

I was like "CAN I!!?!?! This sounds like a job for ChatGPT".

I'll tell you what: ChatGPT can give you a picture of a cat wearing a space suit drinking a martini but it definitely cannot give you the word HELLO spelled out in vegetables.

I ended up getting it to give me each individual letter of the alphabet constructed with vegetables and she pasted them together to make the words she wanted for her presentation.

topoftheforts · a year ago

You can do that with flux.1, it's the best image model right now as far as I'm aware, especially for dealing with text.

This is the result for "vegetables spelling out the word "HELLO"" I used flux-pro on Replicate https://ibb.co/1RVKmdk

topoftheforts commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

topoftheforts · a year ago

SEEKING WORK | UK or Remote | IT Consultant / Full Stack Engineer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel (9yrs exp), VueJS/NuxtJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git, Twilio, Stripe, Docker

Email: topoftheforts[at]gmail.com

CV: Please email and I'll send that over + LinkedIn profile

I have 14 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

I've been indie hacking for the last couple years as well, latest project is gumtrends.com - built with Laravel, took me 6 days from idea to finish and made it to HN front page.

Looking for projects and part-time opportunities.

topoftheforts commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

topoftheforts · 2 years ago

SEEKING WORK | UK or Remote | IT Consultant / Full Stack Engineer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel (9yrs exp), VueJS/NuxtJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git, Twilio, Stripe, Docker

Email: topoftheforts[at]gmail.com

CV: Please email and I'll send that over + LinkedIn profile

I have 14 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

I've been indie hacking for the last couple years as well, latest project is gumtrends.com - built with Laravel, took me 6 days from idea to finish and made it to HN front page.

Looking for projects and part-time opportunities.

topoftheforts commented on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? · Posted by u/fuzztester

topoftheforts · 2 years ago

I'm a software engineer and I'm trying to get into selling HTML templates. I wanted to do some competitor research to see what's selling a lot on Themeforest and what people are complaining about, to find gaps in the market.

So I made an app with Laravel that scrapes Themeforest and uses OpenAI APIs to summarise all the bad reviews.

The app is not publicly available but the result of my first scrape (circa 10 days ago) is on Gumroad https://albertofort.gumroad.com/l/themeforest-templates-ai-d...

topoftheforts commented on · Posted by u/llmllmllm

topoftheforts · 2 years ago

I think the main link of this post should be the homepage and not the generated report, I was very confused at what I was looking at.

I understand the value proposition of this but I can't get past the feeling of "this is just more auto-generated garbage". I am aware that a lot of online outlets do pretty much the same - they summarize a press release and make it their own, adding some images - and this tool is automating that process.

I just can't see myself ever reading an article like this, especially cause it's obvious to me that it's AI generated (paragraphs starting with "Moreover," , "In Summary,"). I'm a sample size of 1 though, and many other people might still read articles like this.

Another doubt I have is in regards to Google - do they like this kind of content? From what I understand they're not against AI but it has to provide valuable information. This seems to regurgitate existing information without extra commentary, so is this even helping SEO?

Apologies if this comes across as negative, I appreciate the work involved, just trying to give some honest feedback.

topoftheforts commented on Halfsies brilliant.org/challenges/... · Posted by u/hysan

karaterobot · 2 years ago

100%! Not sure what this measures, but I've spent decades trying to gauge whether a design is one pixel off, or if some minor change has affected the layout of something. Maybe that was all preparation for slicing America in two using an Australia-shaped knife.

topoftheforts · 2 years ago

"Maybe that was all preparation for slicing America in two using an Australia-shaped knife" one of those sentences I feel like no one has ever said before (/r/brandnewsentence material)

topoftheforts commented on Halfsies brilliant.org/challenges/... · Posted by u/hysan

topoftheforts · 2 years ago

96%, really proud of that

topoftheforts commented on Svelte 5: Runes svelte.dev/blog/runes... · Posted by u/benmccann

schietegal · 2 years ago

Comparisons (Svelte 4 vs. Svelte 5 and other Frameworks): https://component-party-runes.vercel.app/

topoftheforts · 2 years ago

thank you so much for sharing this site! I've been having a hard time wrapping my head around some Vue2->Vue3 changes and this is very helpful

topoftheforts commented on New York Times doesn’t want its stories archived theintercept.com/2023/09/... · Posted by u/kakokeko

topoftheforts · 2 years ago

I kinda feel it's mostly because of the paywall

topoftheforts commented on Show HN: I built a dataset of 25k+ Gumroad products to spot market opportunities gumtrends.com... · Posted by u/topoftheforts