Wow, cool to see this make it on to HN!
Author here, happy to answer any questions about this or chat about the ideas behind it :)
While “silly” this is likely the next paradigm/abstraction for intent based pages.
You can imagine given 1,000,000 page views just how many experiments could be run. Basically our A/B tests start to resemble natural evolution and survival of the fittest more than decision trees.
However, something feels like it’s missing. I wonder what’s still yet to be built before we arrive at that future.
I don't know if I would use a framework named after something that's by nature unreliable, or even devious.
This reminds me of something _why the lucky stiff would create.
> Natural language as source code: Your intention becomes the program
Reminds me of Cucumber testing framework
At least this is the end of the js framework of the week. We developers deliberated ourselves from software development. Hell. We made our own jobs redundant. How stupid and genius at the same time can a profession be
I imagine the perfect programing language would have 3 levels.
1.LLM "code" , this should work for most basic use cases. Should be so basic any random person can create a CRUD app.
2. Scripting, something like Python. This should handle 95% of use cases.
3. Systems programing. Zig, Rust, etc. For when you need extremely specific performance requirements to be met.
My dream language would integrate all three of these in the same stack, ideally the same project would be a mix of all three ( most of the time a mix of the first two).
I also created an experiment for this, giving the AI an ability to write/read from a database so you could build full CRUD apps.
It works somewhat but even with the smaller/faster models it's very slow and even with the big models it is pretty unreliable. Long term I can definitely imagine this will get more viable and maybe become a complement to the 'chat' interface with most SaaS apps essentially being replaced with a AI in front of system or systems of record.
This is it folks, we have finally reached peak of webdev
It's been about 15 years since I've worked with RoR, but my favorite aspect of ruby was and will always be the library names. Shout out to factory_girl which I found out this morning was unforunately renamed to factory_bot