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I'd rather the author spend time on what they want to make (shader quiz) instead of CSS.

As someone who has always despised front-end programming, I would be more than satisfied if LLMs turned out to only be particularly good at that. Given the number of pages we've all seen where the content as well as the front-end are obviously 90% AI-generated, I understand the knee-jerk reaction against sites clearly designed by AI, but it's unfortunate that leads to a negative reaction against (or even just a difficulty distinguishing) sites where people share a tool/knowledge of their own that they never would have shared if it would have taken even just a few days of futzing around with CSS/figuring out the latest JS framework...

I think people under-estimate how much of an effect the unreasonable complexity of modern front-end programming has had, especially outside of tech. My wife works in the non-profit world and I have been completely blown away by how much "designers" barely able to tweak a wordpress plugin get away with charging... She's an "AI skeptic" herself, but almost cried with joy when I showed her V0 [0].

[0] Not as good at coding as others, but probably the single most impressive AI product I've played with from a UX perspective.

I've found it ridiculous that people can see this insanely useful, free resource and their first reactions are "meh the buttons are default AI style."

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In cases like this, where it's used to "automate the boring stuff", I just see it as outsourcing. You don't want to spend time building the frustrating CSS/HTML or whatever that isn't your skill set, and the LLM is quite great at doing it.

I don't think they made most of the quizzes either (see link in my other reply)

No? The quiz is clearly some kind of edge detection filter. The light blue "grid" is the background to let you know there are transparent pixels in the expected output. It looks like something designed with intention to me. They just forgot to put the text description.

Click on where it says DIFF; its not edge detection

More likely to be some kind of color space thresholding

Never mind, you were right that it is edge detection (a terrible one though lol):

https://shaderacademy.com/shaders/glsl/ranked_1/fragmentExpe...

But I still stand by the ai-gen'd aspect

Hey, so I responded about it in other thread, but let me respond here.

Most challenges were created by us, but we use LLM for example to generate comments in the code or generate some simple boiler plate.

Sometimes, it is also useful to create similar challenge to already existing one.

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