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

[residuum@digitalcourage.social]

@misty @ricmac
How many tokens does it cost to generate this thing called "blog" from a post on X?

[dalcacer@mas.to]

@ricmac @bkastl They came full circle.

Also, they were meant, when Gordon Ramsy performed the idiot sandwich.

[mit_scharf@social.anoxinon.de]

@ricmac What is a 12116 token HTML article? Haha, I'm so out of the loop on this topic, and it makes so little sense to me

[fionasboots@tech.lgbt]

@bms48

@ricmac I don't think grep deserves to have some perverse AI failure named after it! That aside, having found out what that term means, it just lends more credibility to the idea that humans and real intelligence are just better at this. LLMs are just for corporations to make money without producing any of their own value.

If you need an actual answer, as the person who wrote the code the LLM was trained on. Don't burn through tokens (in a way that isn't transparent) to come up with slop.

[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.