[HN Gopher] MonkeysPaw - a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
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MonkeysPaw - a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
Author : daviducolo
Score : 23 points
Date : 2025-04-06 14:28 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| dunefox wrote:
| I don't know if I would use a framework named after something
| that's by nature unreliable, or even devious.
| ThrowawayR2 wrote:
| It's only an issue if you get a copy by cURL-ing it, dohohoho.
| bnchrch wrote:
| While "silly" this is likely the next paradigm/abstraction for
| intent based pages.
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| You can imagine given 1,000,000 page views just how many
| experiments could be run. Basically our A/B tests start to
| resemble natural evolution and survival of the fittest more than
| decision trees.
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| However, something feels like it's missing. I wonder what's still
| yet to be built before we arrive at that future.
| Stwerner wrote:
| Yeah, totally agree that something related to this will likely
| be the next paradigm. I've been putting together experiments in
| different directions trying to find that thing that's missing
| but haven't really found a killer use case yet to pull it all
| together.
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| That's a really cool idea that once you can get something
| somewhat reliably consistent generated, you can kind of let
| your A/B tests start to run themselves with just rough
| guidelines on what you're trying to optimize for...
| Stwerner wrote:
| Wow, cool to see this make it on to HN!
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| Author here, happy to answer any questions about this or chat
| about the ideas behind it :)
| ianbicking wrote:
| I love that this is more art piece than serious software...
| more like offering someone an expedition than a product.
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| (Though I'm not sure I'll get on the expedition, I am a little
| worried about sandboxing and setup and getting distracted...)
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| If I was to start the expedition, I'd probably try to overshoot
| by describing a site that I could not myself fully imagine, or
| using attributes that lacked a single meaning. Like, "the
| artist's interactive portfolio, as though the artist is looking
| over your shoulder, the artist keeping a carefully neutral
| expression while seething inside." Then I'd probably continue,
| imagining just the outline of some site that satisfies some
| unarticulated desire, putzing around as I see a concrete
| articulation of that idea, as much reforming the idea in my
| head in response to those results to an equal degree that I am
| articulating the idea in more detail.
| siliconc0w wrote:
| I also created an experiment for this, giving the AI an ability
| to write/read from a database so you could build full CRUD apps.
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| It works somewhat but even with the smaller/faster models it's
| very slow and even with the big models it is pretty unreliable.
| Long term I can definitely imagine this will get more viable and
| maybe become a complement to the 'chat' interface with most SaaS
| apps essentially being replaced with a AI in front of system or
| systems of record.
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