alt Hacker NewsCould it be that the fact that the thing you’re an expert at looked like garbage to you, but the things you’re not an expert at, looked just fine, is not a coincidence?
You can talk to a bunch of designers who will say the opposite. Claude Design Studio generated this garbage UI, that I fixed manually, but it created great code j never could have that made it work.
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Yeah, that's basically me. (Hold the "expert", substitute with "has a degree, at least.")
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Maybe specialists have a higher bar than consumers, and as a design consumer he's right about the design, and the designer is right about the code, if "being right" means "understanding what the end customer will think about this".
Colleague (non-designer) generated UI with Claude. It was awful and broke basic design rules. So yes you may be right.
I think this is true, it's like a close relation of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect
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I'm confused, this doesn't make sense. The target they're iterating on (UI) is the same one whose quality they're assessing, not a different one (source code).
You're suggesting that (a) their UI skills are lacking (based on what? isn't UI exactly what they were iterating on and trying to improve?), and (b) that a real UI expert would've somehow felt the UI they were working on was consistently garbage, despite how many times they iterate on it?
Which means you're saying you don't believe anyone can actually produce high quality (to an expert) output with AI on the same target they're working on, and if they think they are, that just means they don't have a good sense of quality?
> Could it be that the fact that the thing you’re an expert at looked like garbage to you, but the things you’re not an expert at, looked just fine, is not a coincidence?
Well when you put it that way ... monetizing the Dunning-Kruger effect does actually sound like a very good business idea.
Ai is a hammer. Use it right and it makes you very powerful. But it's not an easy tool.
this is why people still enjoy eating at Olive Garden and Chipotle and Sweetgreen
basically the AI-slop version of food, yet still they thrive
Good point on "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect."
This is the juxtaposition the general public is in. They don’t have advanced tech skills to know any better so they see an output that they can’t produce from their skills and think it’s great. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. What does the code look like?