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Very neat site and write-up, but I found this part amusing:

> There is really nothing “AI” about this aside from the tool that collected the data and coded it, and, crucially, semantic search […]

So really, everything about it is AI. And that’s not a bad thing! It’s okay to simultaneously preach the superiority of award winning books over AI-generated garbage while also acknowledging the same AI as a valuable tool for other uses.

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Key word being tool. People get lost in a fantasy that the AI was responsible for decisions and not the human who chose to use it as a replacement for effort rather than a tool to enhance effort, then apply their bias to all AI use.

so much of AI is like, to me, used as was to generate basically dynamic applicaions. if we ever got anywhere with semantics, objects, etc, pushed html further, maybe we'd naturally have web clients that could take objects, natively search, collate, display, put on a map, graph, etc... but AI is like a text only shortcut to the end result we want.

I have a stupid AI app I use now for some bookkeeping which was previously, just an excel sheet. except it has a UI, it validates inputs, and does a bunch of other housekeeping stuff that makes it nice. Did the excel work? yes totally.

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