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One thing I'd mention is that graphic editing (photoshop/GIMP/etc) is still stuck in an interface taken from paper. And that when CorelDraw and Inkscape showed a better interface that also uses a few synergizing tools, other software failed to adopt it. But the pressures on graphics software seems to be different.

As someone who has only used these applications briefly, I would love to know more about this.

Forebruary 2 years ago

And also with some mega tags that prevent me from pinch zooming.

Take this with a grain of salt because I'm not super well read on llms, but isn't their entire function built on prediction?

Sounds like a reasonable approach could be to have a separate "channel" which focuses entirely on the concept of "where is this conversation going?" could give a pretty good baseline for when and how to interject.

I can only speak for myself, but the few times I encountered xslt in the past it was in the context of bulky and verbose SOAP services. The syntax felt off to me (and still do).

I think this was at the time I was learning jquery and using css selector syntax for finding elements, and the difference between that and xpath was pretty stark.

I basically (probably with insufficient knowledge) filed xslt away with vb and tables for formatting as old, complex and soon to be replaced

I have a hard time articulating exactly why, but I believe tailwind is popular because it allows developers who are not designers to ignore design/css best practices and just write inline styles again like they used to, before everyone starting telling them that this was bad practice.

I had a rough road learning css, and have been in a few situations where my css/design skills were insufficient to the tasks I was expected to solve. Inline styling let me work more intuitively, and in large part skip learning a whole new paradigm/architecture "just to style some components".

As I eventually grew and had time to work on styling/design in a less stressful environment, I gradually got better at it. Not by practice so much as by learning a new way to frame the problems of styling differently from the problems of "pure" programming.

Had tailwind been around back then I'm sure I'd be a big proponent. It's a product that proposes to solve the cognitive dissonance for a programmer with lots of experience coding, but little experience designing being asked to structure and reason about their work in an uncomfortably different way.

I think tailwind solves a real problem, just not the one we're being told it does.