Agreed. It's not that the designs it produces are bad necessarily, they're just very same-y. People often talk about the bootstrap era, but that wasn't as bad because bootstrap wasn't so strongly associated with low-effort slop projects (low-effort on the frontend maybe, but not the project as a whole).
The comparison is pretty accurate though. The moment anyone dared to stray from the bootstrap defaults is when the whole thing would go to shit.
Every steaming pile said less about the development effort and so much more about the project management. This same boneheaded top-down approach is why AI isn't working for anyone without being willing to pour as much effort into babysitting as just writing the damn code yourself.
Old adages continue to ring true and as loud as ever. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
> but that wasn't as bad because bootstrap wasn't so strongly associated with low-effort slop projects (low-effort on the frontend maybe, but not the project as a whole)
They were, at least for that era. Just maybe not at AI-scale.
Like you had to know a little HTML in the bootstrap era. I made what I thought was a pretty nifty landing page but I got endless complaints because “it looked like bootstrap”
Can you please compare the code generated by other similar quality pelicans by other models. Code in your first link (Fable 5 Default) looks minimal yet very good.
Lookup or modify selected text using AI (chrome extension). I just select any text and click the tiny popup button "what's this" and get an answer right there on the page. Made it mainly to explain terms and abbreviations I come across on HN often. Can also ask any other question about selected text. Can even modify the selected text the same way. [1]
OneNote to markdown/obsidian canvas converter. It did that using interop api to read the actual XML of the onenote files.
Work time tracker as 1px line on edge of monitor. Shows thin line at the edge of the display which fills up based on what i am doing.
Plaintext bookmark chrome extension that save links to local markdown file, Dynalist, Workflowy, Github Gist and import export between them. Was originally for Dynalist when AI couldn't do much 2-3 years ago. Recently added these other end points. [2]
A heart rate monitor with finger on camera. It's bit crappy though. Had to make it because many trackers, including google fit, couldn't detect 200bpm. https://github.com/SMUsamaShah/heart-rate
> I should not be known and my picture should not be on the blog post
That is the opposite of what parent comment says. It took offence on a generated photo of you. It would have been better to not have anything than a generated image.
I think it was Joel Spolsky's book "User Interface Design for Programmers" where one of his strong points was that nobody reads manuals. Documentation isn't any different.
And on the article's point (the title at least), I write stuff for LLM more freely because they will not care if what I have written is complete garbage. I can't do that in the documents I write for fellow humans. They will be read by them and carry more weight, and therefore require much more effort to write. With LLM, all I care about is providing enough context.
May be we just need to ingrain some of that thought process in our for-humans docs.
When I uncheck rounded corners, it turn window square and loose shadow. Could you make it more like file pilot. I mean, keep the window rounded with shadow like the rest of OS, with the other element in app square corners.
Look at how pure the signal is from the peregrine's wings. The signal from feral pigeon is extremely noisy in comparison, as if it is fighting to stay the in the air. The peregrine wingbeat is clean so I presume the energy is being turned into velocity with high efficiency. Extremely cool.
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