Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x

[mavu@mastodon.social]

@ricmac this is just sad.

[fink@chaos.social]

@ricmac next up: semantic html

[monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ricmac

WTH! Last time I saw a full style tag was about 20 years ago on a page with table layouts. These vibe coders really know F all about developing websites!

[oe_simon@mastodon.social]

@ricmac What's next? Discovering coding?

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@ricmac I don't know the first thing about computer science, and even *I'm* here muttering "jesus fucking christ" to myself..

Wow.

[tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr]

@ricmac

They arev on a good path to discover algoritms.

[bjc@tines.spork.org]

@ricmac this guy's a genius and deserves another $100k/yr raise.

[kalvaro@mastodon.social]

@ricmac "What if we create a special well-defined language, based on symbols and English keywords, to interact with LLM that avoids the ambiguity of natural language and allows to separate code from data?"

[mit_scharf@social.anoxinon.de]

@iain 🤯 no way is this real ? This amazes my an leaves me in wonder

[djno@mastodon.maymundere.org]

@ricmac no way these people are real they have to be chatbots just made to farm engagement

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@ricmac

@zzt burning tokens to make HTML.

I feel like they'd be better off not inhaling the fumes from those token fires.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@iain @mit_scharf @ricmac

Just wait until the token burn subsidy disappears. The subscriptions offered by the platforms or heavily subsidized on the word of 5 to 12 times the token cost.

He can tell all the platforms are squirming at their burn rate because they lose money with every customer and with more usage of the systems.

[tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz]

@eljojo @ricmac @cassidy That honestly sounds like an art piece

[nm0i@functional.cafe]

@ricmac Save your popcorn for the day they discover Java applets.

[enthalpiste@social.sciences.re]

@ricmac Soon they'll be like...

"Look how you can CODE THINGS into your pages using PHP!"

No shit?

[precariousmind@neopaquita.es]

@ricmac sweet mother of God 🫣

[precariousmind@neopaquita.es]

@ricmac also, the use of "burning" is most accurate for LLM use.

[michael@social.net.ua]

@ricmac pillocks

[lime@hachyderm.io]

@fink @ricmac
wait maybe we get the promised web 2.0 for real this time around

[j9t@mas.to]

@ricmac, what will happen when they discover that a lot of HTML is optional and can be omitted…