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
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Now they’ve discovered external style sheets.
@ricmac @drahardja What happened to tokenmaxing? This sounds like tokenmining — do these people even AI?
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Now they’ve discovered external style sheets.
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Unfortunately, I think the next step might be: “What if we created a virtual DOM…”
@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?”
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Now they’ve discovered external style sheets.
@ricmac I wait for the moment when they find out that thinking for yourself burns 0 tokens!
That is -100% tokens!
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what is happening
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Now they’ve discovered external style sheets.
@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?:
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@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.
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@ricmac I feel like the old witch in the woods who knows all the secret spells who everyone ignores.
@superflippy @ricmac <sighs in BOFH>
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@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.
Only in this case obviously a breach of copyright.
LLMs on the other side work pretty well as copyright laundering machines. Like money laundering turns dark money into clean income, copyright laundering turns plagiarized works into original works...
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Unfortunately, I think the next step might be: “What if we created a virtual DOM…”
@ricmac If not that, then perhaps they'll realize that the semantics of html tags don't match up with their needs, and they'll want extensible language of markup.
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