Funny enough, when I tell people that Jev cannot play tic-tac-toe I hear a similar argument - it's not what Jev was built for. Jev has this elusive use case that noone can describe, so when Jev fails, it's just because it wasn't built for it. Convenient.

Don't you find it suspicious that Jev cannot play tic-tac-toe or checkers, but can play Doom? Don't you find it suspicious that nothing of the Doom demo was shared: no harness, no control loop, no state encoding, no prompts - nothing.

And the explanation is obvious - Jev isn't playing doom. The harness is. They essentially built a Doom bot, dumbed down it's control loop for Jev, and gave reins to Jev. Look mom, Jev is playing Doom!

The state says "you're pointing at the cacodemon" or "you're not pointing at the cacodemon" and Jev has to decide whether to press fire. Frontier intelligence!

You can build a harness where a coin flip is playing Doom.

And I know HN people think marketing is a bad word.

But marketeers know that design is part of the messaging. And nowadays, having clear AI tells in your design shouts "I made this in an afternoon, so don't take this seriously"

First impressions are everything in a world where attention spans are shortened every year.

Act accordingly.

However, doing the former requires a level of empathy with humans that LLMs rarely have.

Human brains have caloric demands. It is possible for humans to process enormous amounts of unrelated facts to make a decision, but it’s tiring. It’s much better to not do that, especially just to get some basic information.

To anthropomorphize a bit, an LLM might find it charming and interesting to read someone’s life story as a preamble before their taco recipe. Humans by and large find that annoying, not because we can’t understand the biography but because processing that information is not free.

So it’s probably possible to design using an LLM. You would probably have to be intentional about it.

But there's about 10 other examples explaining intention of the coding rather than immediately useful information to the user, it's all over this one site in small grey text. And I guarantee you nobody is reading them carefully. Just like how nobody likes reading a 15 line LLM code comment over a simple function.

Most of it could be better solved with more thoughtful design or deleted. The link explanation is particularly egregious.