Comment by echelon
1 day ago
People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love.
This is 100% a good thing.
I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.
I agree that this is an example of interesting and good AI usage. The person who made it obviously put thought into it. Unfortunately a lot of vibe coded sites do not have that same level of care
People were already building cool side projects to completion and giving them love before AI.
You get downvoted for being weirdly ecstatic about AI "enabling" things that were already possible, while not caring about the human element that AI lacks.
People that say "things [...] were already possible" don't dream enough.
Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early.
I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploads, immortality, jet packs, surfing on Titan, etc.
I legitimately enjoy the future we're hurtling towards. It's the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species. I hated the world where "Apple iPhones" were the pinnacle of human achievement.
We might be able to vibe engineer our own iPhones in a few years. That'll be fun.
But building a website like the one posted here was already possible. you compared it to the early "indie" web.
There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species."
FFS we've stood on the moon.
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What world are you living in where you’re okay with this?
Phoned in websites / AI slop is not a good thing.
Code something yourself on neocities.
This is not slop. It took effort. This is not a one shot fire and forget project.
Value != Effort:
Infinite randomly generated slop + The Algorithm = Extremely personalized value delivered