No shade to the creators as I'm sure the tool is great but if I didn't know better I'd say this seems like an astroturfed effort by WordPress to stay relevant.
Existing AI tools alongside other open-source builders (Puck for React, Primo for Svelte, etc.) equals all the good things about WordPress's "WYSIWYG-ness" minus all the unnecessary bloat that's piled up over the years.
fat (Jacob Thornton) has a great metaphor that makes this simple to understand. Cute puppy dog syndrome.
Someone adopts a cute puppy. A bunch of people like playing with it and feeding it. It gets really big like Clifford. More and more people want to play with it. Not enough of them want to put in the work to feed it anymore. The person who adopted it gets burnt out trying to do so.
We’re incentivized to take as much and give as little as we can get away with (companies especially) “because profit.” If you’re like “but socialism is worse!!1!” just know that you can either parrot that line or fix the problem but not both.
This is a fantastic piece. If you find yourself thinking “okay, so the brain is different — now what? What should I actually do to learn better?” I wrote about this last year. Pardon the clickbaity title, HackerNoon changed it up on me. https://hackernoon.com/the-four-rs-how-to-become-a-good-prog...
> Whatever your partisan opinion, at least 70M American adults, 48.5% of those voting, disagree with you and think you’re an idiot.
This is a site for hackers - people with a special affinity for technology, science, building things, and solving problems.
Openly supporting a president who gleefully ignores the advice of scientists and bans immigrants from Muslim countries is inherently harmful to the work of hackers not to mention life on this planet.
To pretend both sides have equal merit just because large numbers of people exist on each is dishonest.
I agree with the two party system being terrible, and wish the Dems had a more progressive candidate, but Trump’s effects on the democratic process and the climate and COVID deaths needed to be stopped.
Existing AI tools alongside other open-source builders (Puck for React, Primo for Svelte, etc.) equals all the good things about WordPress's "WYSIWYG-ness" minus all the unnecessary bloat that's piled up over the years.