im kinda mixed on this. its good for certain tasks, ive made scripts and smaller programs with it but its not a replacement for humans or human creativity and shouldnt be treated as such. of course, this is capitalism so…
example
i asked it to make a script to scrape all my comments on hexbear and write to a file, it did it without issues as the json structure was provided.
example 2
i asked it to make a script to allow me to hide posts on hexbear/lemmy and it came up with a working one after 2-3 iterations
spoiler
// ==UserScript==
// @name Hexbear Hide Posts
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 1.0
// @description Hide posts on hexbear.net and store their state in local storage
// @author You
// @match https://hexbear.net/*
// @grant none
// @run-at document-end
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
‘use strict’;
// Function to create and return a 'Hide' button element
function createHideButton(postHref) {
let btn = document.createElement('button');
btn.innerHTML = 'Hide';
btn.className = 'btn btn-sm btn-link btn-animate text-muted py-0';
btn.style.marginLeft = '5px';
btn.addEventListener('click', function () {
// Find the closest post container to the button clicked
const postElement = this.closest('div.post-listing') || this.closest('article');
if (postElement) {
hidePost(postElement, postHref);
}
});
return btn;
}
// Function to hide the post and save its href in local storage
function hidePost(postElement, postHref) {
postElement.style.display = 'none'; // Hide the post
localStorage.setItem('hidden-' + postHref, 'true'); // Mark the post as hidden in local storage
}
// Function to process and potentially hide a post
function processPost(post) {
// Use the href attribute of the first anchor tag within the post as a unique identifier
const postHref = post.querySelector('a').getAttribute('href');
// Check if the post is already marked as hidden in local storage
if (localStorage.getItem('hidden-' + postHref) === 'true') {
post.style.display = 'none'; // Hide the post if it was previously hidden
}
// Find the dropdown button to insert the 'Hide' button after
const dropdown = post.querySelector('[data-bs-toggle="dropdown"]');
if (dropdown) {
const hideButton = createHideButton(postHref);
dropdown.parentNode.insertBefore(hideButton, dropdown.nextSibling);
}
}
// MutationObserver callback to watch for changes in the DOM
const observerCallback = (mutationsList, observer) => {
for (const mutation of mutationsList) {
if (mutation.type === 'childList' && mutation.addedNodes.length > 0) {
mutation.addedNodes.forEach(node => {
if (node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
// Check if the added node is a post container
if (node.matches('div.post-listing, article.post-container')) {
processPost(node);
} else {
// Check if any child nodes are post containers
const postNodes = node.querySelectorAll('div.post-listing, article.post-container');
postNodes.forEach(processPost);
}
}
});
}
}
};
// Set up the MutationObserver to watch for changes in the entire document
const observer = new MutationObserver(observerCallback);
const config = { childList: true, subtree: true };
// Start observing the document
observer.observe(document.documentElement, config);
// Additionally, process any posts that are already in the DOM at script start
document.querySelectorAll('div.post-listing, article.post-container').forEach(processPost);
})();
i think for creative tasks like writing, relying on LLMs entirely is just lazy and you can see that with AI Content farms on youtube.
im kinda mixed on this. its good for certain tasks, ive made scripts and smaller programs with it but its not a replacement for humans or human creativity and shouldnt be treated as such. of course, this is capitalism so…
example
i asked it to make a script to scrape all my comments on hexbear and write to a file, it did it without issues as the json structure was provided.
example 2
i asked it to make a script to allow me to hide posts on hexbear/lemmy and it came up with a working one after 2-3 iterations
spoiler
// ==UserScript== // @name Hexbear Hide Posts // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 1.0 // @description Hide posts on hexbear.net and store their state in local storage // @author You // @match https://hexbear.net/* // @grant none // @run-at document-end // ==/UserScript==
(function() { ‘use strict’;
})();
i think for creative tasks like writing, relying on LLMs entirely is just lazy and you can see that with AI Content farms on youtube.