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

[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…

[kyonshi@dice.camp]

@ricmac I'm seriously not sure anymore what's satire and what isn't because the world's gone so fucking stupid

[fink@chaos.social]

@lime @ricmac At %workplace proper documentation is beginning to be a thing nowerdays because the tapeworms otherwise do even more BS

[ccunning@mastodon.world]

@ricmac @drahardja What happened to tokenmaxing? This sounds like tokenmining — do these people even AI?

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@ricmac @braddunbar

[robin@daugherty.nl]

@ricmac “What if we name tags semantically so that we can reuse styles for items with similar meaning instead of generating tailwind classes on everything?”

[themipper@mastodon.social]

@ricmac I wait for the moment when they find out that thinking for yourself burns 0 tokens!

That is -100% tokens!

[balglaas@mastodon.social]

@pikesley @ricmac Most likely a case of "People are idiots", again.

[oggie@woof.group]

@ricmac eventually they're literally going to create all of programming best practices from first principles and the textbooks from the 80s will be shockingly relevant again.

'So I can just private a function?:

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@fionasboots @glitzersachen @ricmac Not too different from asking applicants to design an entire suspiciously specific thing, not hiring them, and putting the design into production the next day.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@superflippy @ricmac <sighs in BOFH>