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Comment by bobmcnamara | Hacker News Reader

Pretty neat!

Is there a name for the UI style of the web server page? I've noticed several web apps have a similar style to that.

I didn't ask for a style, it's just what Claude came up with by default. Here's what happened just now when I asked it:-

   What was the inspiration for the CSS styling of this web page?                                                                    

  ● Looking at the CSS styling in live_plot.html, the inspiration appears to be Tailwind CSS and modern minimalist design trends.

Just as a heads up, LLMs doesn't actually understand why they do what they do, you asking about it will make them reason about why it happened, but it's not the "motivation", it's essentially guesses with no anchoring to reality.

Just thought I'd clarify as I've seen prompts like this and people thinking this is the actual motivation from the "inside the LLM" or whatever, which is a bit far away from the truth.

Fair enough, I did ask for "inspiration" through rather than "motivation" - mainly because I recall a comment on here a few days ago that LLMs are carefully trained to never reveal where the training material came from. So the prompt was aimed at working around that.

Yeah, inspiration, motivation, justification etc are synonyms in this case, the point I was trying to make was something like "LLMs don't know why they do what they do", and asking for them to provide it, will make them come up with it on the spot afterwards, not actually share what the inspiration/motivation/justification was at the time the tokens were sampled.

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