Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by llmslave3 on Sunday January 11, 2026 @05:56PM (#46581347)

He's built lots of cool stuff with AI. Here is four random ones pulled from https://tools.simonwillison.net

- https://tools.simonwillison.net/bullish-bearish

- https://tools.simonwillison.net/user-agent

- https://tools.simonwillison.net/gemini-chat

- https://tools.simonwillison.net/token-usage

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by m4nu3l on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:32PM (#46581680)

All of the linked apps look trivial to me. Also, the first one, the UI has no feedback once you click the answer (plus some questions don't really make sense as they have the answer in them). There is more on the website, so there could be something interesting, but I'm having trouble finding it among all the noise. Not saying simple apps have no value. Even simple throwaway UIs can have value, especially if you develop them quickly.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by simonw on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:36PM (#46582199)

How about these ones, are these trivial too? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582192

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by m4nu3l on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:37PM (#46593966)

The first one is basically some glue code using pipes. The ones I'd say are not trivial are the VMs in Python. However, I'd say they are entirely useless, and not too complex either (although somewhat tedious to implement).

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by CamelCaseName on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:12PM (#46581487)

This is not really cool or impressive at all?

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by sesm on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:40PM (#46582227)

A page that outputs your user agent as an example of 'cool stuff built with AI'?

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by simonw on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:42PM (#46582240)

See my comment here - I suspect that those were deliberately picked by llmslave3 to NOT be impressive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582209

For more impressive examples see https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276#46582192

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by simonw on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:37PM (#46582209)

llmslave3 appears to have deliberately picked the least interesting from my HTML+JavaScript tools collection here. This post describes a bunch of much more interesting ones: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by llmslave3 on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:45PM (#46582268)

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by simonw on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:57PM (#46582372)

Did you genuinely select those examples in good faith?

If you're here to converse in good faith, what's your opinion of the examples I shared in this post over here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276#46582192

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by novemp on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:30AM (#46584458)

I feel like I'm being punked, being told that this "bullish vs bearish flash card" thing and this "here's your user agent, something people have been doing for thirty years" thing, are "cool stuff". This guy seriously needed AI to make those?

I can't gauge the other two since I don't use those things, so maybe they are cool, idk.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by simonw on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:43AM (#46584536)

Go read my replies to your sibling comments that said the same thing.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by novemp on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:19PM (#46591444)

I did. I still feel like I'm being punked, being told that you needed a chatbot to build you those simple things.

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