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

[slightlyoff@toot.cafe]

@ricmac STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS (for free)

[slightlyoff@toot.cafe]

@john.kreitlow.rocks "whoa, dude... wouldn't it, like, be strange if this was also more efficient in every other way? We couldn't be that lucky, tho. But what if..."

[eljojo@ruby.social]

@ricmac @cassidy this week i literally found a website that had a full blown photo gallery entirely as base64 encoded images. the entire website was a single html many megabytes in size.

[rotnroll666@mastodon.social]

@fionasboots @glitzersachen @ricmac “from the best programmers in the world” if only. What do one get when training the stuff on stack overflow and mediocre enterprise rest applications?

[rolf_b_lh@muenster.im]

@ricmac But it seems he learned something Form the AI...

[saxnot@chaos.social]

@ricmac we gotta laugh at AI-bros today because perhaps tomorrow they will be gone just like NFT

we can't postpone our laughter and ridicule

[saxnot@chaos.social]

@mikalai @pikesley @ricmac this is so funny

[saxnot@chaos.social]

@glitzersachen @ricmac it's a promise "something for nothing" and the inept are allured by it

[fionasboots@tech.lgbt]

@rotnroll666

@glitzersachen @ricmac fair point

[lari@typo.social]

@ricmac Queue Also Sprach Zarathustra.

[mudasobwa@mastodon.social]

@ricmac Agentic DOM

[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