Programmers are cooked.
…works on my machine
As a web designer (well, customizer/reseller for small businesses) I definitely thought I was done for when I heard AI could spit out a functional website in one prompt. Then I saw some examples and realized it’s just going to be another thing clients bring me, begging for a fix. No problemo, small upcharge.
Small upcharge? Unfucking a whole front end and backend should be more than small.
Sorry, wrong link for some reason, it’s supposed to be http://192.168.1.36/
Eh… don’t want to be mean but that’s what’s called an “IP address” for Internet Protocol Address… but this one is for your LAN, aka Local Area Network.
So that won’t work, people outside your LAN can’t reach it. What you need instead is a domain. What most people don’t know though is that there is a special domain name anybody can use for free! Check this out, assuming your LLM did the right setup do all that step, making website, starting Web server then try :
https://localhost/ and voila, free domain from your newly generated websites!
… /s
Can I do that from Internet Explorer or do I have to use Safari?
That’s actually a great question, safer to ask your LLM directly! So helpful. /s
This reminds me of a video where a girl was like “yeah so you know all that streaming stuff is so expensive? Thanks to AI I coded my own Netflix streaming site…”
And there was this one comment like “Backend???” and she was like “Yeah I dont know what that is, but if you want a part 2 I can do that later” 😂
Just tell her about Jellyfin I guess
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Entire website
Also known as the most basic thing you could ever do
Saw a generated site, but it just made up plausible image links and also went image heavy so it was a bunch of broken image icons as it linked to nowhere.
Haha your job is so done
I gave Claude a shot at guiding me through an install of a matrix home server the other day. It got about halfway through before it absolutely shat itself. I mean like going in circles and completely incapable of breaking itself out.
And that’s for a fairly easy sysadmin task. Not even doing it right, just doing it to the point where the service can be brought up and be accessible. I cannot believe anyone is under the impression that these bots are going to take anyone’s jobs. The only thing that’s going to “destroy jobs” is the rabid desperation management has to destroy labor.
Yeah that’s a common issue I’ve seen with Gemini and ChatGPT as well. They can do simple tasks but as soon as it’s something that requires more than a 5-6 steps, or if there are complications along the way they will get lost. Also ChatGPT will commonly just make up commands if it doesn’t actually know how to do something.
I will say that after I went back to my normal usage pattern of going as far as I could alone and then asking the chatbot what went wrong it did save me a ton of time by suggesting I check whether caddy was importing from
conf.d, which it wasn’t.I would have gotten there eventually, but not was it nice not having to hunt through snarky unhelpful forum comments on my own.
I just did a long winded reply to your other comment before seeing this one. Seems like we landed in the same place! Hope the server is working well you
It’s been a good decade since I did any “serious” sysadmin tasks.
I get to do it again because it appears we actually do want some features synapse supports that conduit doesn’t, door knocking being a big one. I also get to write user facing documentation as well; the “techy” person I enlisted to help me test the core conduit services got very frustrated by the onboarding process even with my handholding.
I sound annoyed but I genuinely love doing this kinda stuff. I’m stupid, and figuring out where I screwed up is fun. Plus I get to make an onboarding webpage to explain things, which is gonna be loads of fun
I did the same thing a few days ago, but I’m also pretty well versed with self hosting tedious-to-configure services. I would have spent hours rabbit-holing before setting up, and Claude just sped up the process.
I spent most of my time researching and forming an action plan, arguably the most important piece. Within two hours I had a Matrix server stood up with element-web, as well as coturn for calls. Setting up Element-Call for groups took a little longer, but not terrible all told.
I guess what I’m saying is if you’re experienced with a given task, it can be a really great tool to speed things along. If you want to sit back and have it run the show, you’re going to have a rough time.
Pretty much sums up a lot of younger people who didn’t grow up learning far more hands-on basic computer use. Z and A are gonna be the “AI” generation that surrenders the last of critical thought and hands it all to walled gardens of instant, tailored, and curated information.
Local storage? Wouldn’t it be saved to their OneDrive?
oh snap, root’s here
This motherfucker over here is ruining the good name of Bens all over the planet
As a Ben, I think I speak for all of us when I say that this Ben does not represent us or our Benly sensibilities.
As a Ben myself, Ben’s can eat shit. I’ve never met a Ben I didn’t want to punch or fuck.
So… What happens when you look in a mirror?
I leave you to make assumptions.
My direct experience is that, using chatgpt, making basic html DOM elements is simple, but coding behaviours in a reliable manner isn’t as simple. And css shouldn’t even need AI to be coded effectively. Javascript is the part where the ineffciency and the weird behaviour of a website are. I bet there are professional web design tools that use ai, but using genAI for that is…uh
Getting it to open on someone else’s computer is like the first thing about web development
