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> We are in fact seeing software improvement, in the form of fewer bugs and better performance.

> We are in fact seeing software improvement, in the form of more and better features in existing products.

After reading these two points, I had to scroll down to see if it was the opening of some elaborate joke, because I'm seeing more bugs, worse performance, and less and worse features.

You say tables, graphics, graphs, and colors, but I mean things that move when they don't need to move and interfere with expected UI behaviour, like arbitrarily staying in one position when I am using my mouse wheel to scroll downwards.

I should have been more precise than saying "just give me text", but it was what came in to mind when I wrote it, as I was thinking about what an article is meant to contain as its base element.

I take the opposite viewpoint. I think pages like these are horrible, and a demonstration that web designers have too many tools at their disposal.

But this is just a marketing page for some tech company, right? If only it stopped there. I have to deal with this nonsense in news "articles" as well on occasion, when some web designer intern is allowed to larp as a journalist for a day.

sigh Just give me text to read.

Oh my god yes, kill it, please.

This site desperately needs a light mode.

What a profoundly stupid waste of computing power.

That's a shame. The "pref" is whatever the user has set on their device, and I wish more sites would respect that, rather than defaulting to their own "pref".

Can I turn off dark mode?

Are there supposed to be pictures? I passed a human silhouette, but that was it.

The whole thing is automatically generated? Does anything persist? If I could be in the middle of reading it, and the next day it's completely different, that's a huge waste of my time.

No. It's not just you.

I have nothing against dark mode in principle, but please don't make it the default. Respect the user's preference.

Or, at the very least, don't use white on black. Soften the contrast so that, if you force me to read it, it's not burned into my vision.

It's just a matter of time before one of these vulnerable individuals kills a whole bunch of people because the machine told them to.

I've run numerous interactive text adventures through ChatGPT as well, and while it's great at coming up with scenarios and taking the story in surprising directions, it sucks at maintaining a coherent narrative. The stories are fraught with continuity errors. What time of day it is seems to be decided at random, and it frequently forgets things I did or items picked up previously that are important. It also needs to be constantly reminded of rules that I gave it in the initial prompt. Basically, stuff that the article refers to as "maintaining state."

I've become wary of trusting it with any task that takes more than 5-10 prompts to achieve. The more I need to prompt it, the more frequently it hallucinates.