"ChatGPT make the checkout button more pronounced but not too much I don't want to look greedy. Also move it so it looks better. Also only use good colors. It should work like Amazon. Also in checkout make middle name required but only if they have one."<p>Real client quotes slightly paraphrased due to memory constraints.<p>I feel for ya ChatGPT - I've been there.
I sometimes have to interact with Wix for one customer. It's a complete nightmare to work with. Their WYSIWYG editor takes minutes to load on an M1 Mac with a decent Internet connection, and every operation is incredibly sluggish.<p>What they've done with this AI is rather... unimpressive. ChatGPT already generates pretty decent websites, we've generated more than one demo or PoC with it. They <i>really</i> should focus on their core product UX, because it's... just trash.
A photographer "friend", pretty prominent name, asked me to create a website for him.
I showed him a demo of a masonry wall.
A month later he created his own website with wix.
Absolutely terrible looking.
I guess he sells that as "new art design" or something.<p>Photographers can get away with anything.
And us honestl, hard working folks of the web dev "industry" get replaced by AI.<p>So what are we supposed to do? Just die? In the end, it won't make a difference. The public will get used to swallowing all the shit they get served. Some will even idealize it.<p>Good example, HBO Max vs HBO Go.
Go was superior in every way, but HBO Max is the successor and people got used to be served shit vs actual good quality.
Or take the good movies of the 80s 90s and then compare them to the shit that Superhero movies are.
Great quality, well produced, but still shit compared.
People just got used to eating shit.<p>AI generated will be the norm and what's left will be super expensive designers that only super rich can afford, because it's manual labor for extravagant people.<p>Where does it end?
This will be great for people who are tech savvy, but not website builders. I build websites for small businesses, and this doesn't threaten me in the least as my value has never been the actual design/construction but rather my ability to have good client relationships and provide them "peace of mind".
Anyone remember hearing about AI powered websites builders several years ago only to flop terribly? Specifically the grid : <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22399357">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22399357</a>
It's weird that the interface seems to be a chatbot with a tiny text field that quizzes you on things. I would think it would be more effective if it went "hey, hand me all the documentation and stuff you have that describes your business" and then asked you clarifying questions at the end if necessary. I wonder if they tested something like that and the results were poor?
I've said it multiple times to multiple people and I'm gonna say it again: If ChatGPT can give you correct solutions, you don't work on complex enough problems and your job will probably be automated relatively soon. Complex SQL is a great example of the type of problem LLMs fail at spectacularly, but average humans (well, I mean average programmers) do not.
Hmm, I thought they would use AI for creating the designs/styles for their websites, but it's 'only' about text.<p>For HeyHomepage I have a Quick Design option, which uses random color schemes that one can gradually refine to quickly end up with a nice and fitting website style. It combines the power of randomly presented colors with the ability to quickly choose the ones you like.<p>Of course, a custom style specifically designed for a company's website might win in the 'look and feel' category, but quickly having something decent online was my main goal here.
> AI Site Generator takes several prompts — any descriptions of sites — and uses a combination of in-house and third-party AI systems to create the envisioned site. In a chatbot-like interface, the tool asks a series of questions about the nature of the site and business, attempting to translate this into a custom web template.<p>> ChatGPT generates the text for the website while Wix’s AI creates the site design and images.<p>Looks like they are blending their own work with ChatGPT.
The thing is 'website' is going to lose meaning when there are trillions of them, all blandly AI.<p>It's kind of an instantiation of the creators idea of what you want to see at a point in time. But why not use AI to generate the visitor's prefered presentation of what it is you have to present, in real time?
Actually, Wix can do quite a bit more with AI ...<p>1. AI Text Creator
2. AI Template Text Creator
3. Alternative Layouts
4. AI Image Creator
5. Auto Background Removal and Auto Enhance
6. Auto-Generated Trailer
7. Product Descriptions
8. Product Recommendations
9. AI Domain Generator
more coming soon...<p>see examples here
<a href="https://www.wix.com/blog/avishai-abrahami-thoughts-about-ai#viewer-elaim" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.wix.com/blog/avishai-abrahami-thoughts-about-ai#...</a>
A side note about Wix:<p>A couple of years back, I was choosing between Squarespace and Wix to replace a Wordpress site for a “brochure” website that was a huge PITA to update. When I looked at Squarespace, they provided no way to restore the site from a backup after some inadvertent change by an end user. Of course I ended up with Wix, but I am still baffled by the popularity of Squarespace given this ridiculous limitation.
I wonder, will this worsen or better the issue of all websites looking similar? <a href="https://theconversation.com/yes-websites-really-are-starting-to-look-more-similar-136484" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://theconversation.com/yes-websites-really-are-starting...</a>
> “The AI Site Generator leverages our domain expertise and near-decade of experience with AI to tune the models to generate high-quality content, tailor-made design and layouts,” Abrahami said<p>I had no idea Wix has 10 years of AI experience!