An enduring nerd dream: Yahoo Pipes combined with HyperCard.
- An enduring nerd dream: Yahoo Pipes combined with HyperCard.[apd]
- Part of the challenge in Yahoo Pipes was that you had to wire everything together.
- Wiring together components is fiddly and hard!
- What if you could just kind of collect a few bits of data, a few slices of behavior, mush them together and let the system fill in the gaps?
- If you have to fill in the gaps from nothing, you get 100% mush, frog DNA.
- But if the user has given a bit of a hint of the type of data, or their intent, often an LLM can fill in the gaps in a way that is likely what the user wanted.
- If the result isn't what you wanted, simply give a bit more specificity so there's less ambiguity to fill in and have it try again.
- Put the components you care about in a bag, shake it, and tell the system to figure it out for you.
- LLMs can do this quite well!