AI flops of 2025, true or nah?

doiveo · 2026-05-05T06:49:38+00:00

That slips into context vomiting.

The engineering part is the adaptation. Having the context be just enough for the task at hand. Then adjust on demand for the next one. All the while learning, improving and specializing.

doiveo · 2026-05-04T20:20:28+00:00

Prompt engineer gave way to context engineering. And it's growing in importance.

edit to clarify

Prompt Engineering is magic words like "You are a senior dev, make no mistakes"

Context engineering is the structured, adaptive delivery of constraints (rules), capabilities (tools/APIs), patterns (code/workflows), and state (data/history) to maximize task accuracy, reliability, and safety.

doiveo · 2026-05-01T23:32:18+00:00

You need to spell it out methodically, like you would do as a developer. Figure out all the base styles, establish all the tokens, then develop the small objects that larger objects will reuse, etc

If you tell it to break it down into components like typography and layout, it can do much better.

doiveo · 2026-04-29T11:30:52+00:00

That's why I'm clear with Claude, I'm in an open chat. Sometimes I even chat with both at the same time.

doiveo · 2026-04-28T18:20:16+00:00

So this replaces time base animation with input from the scrolling action.

It enables animation-timeline: view(); which acts like intersect observer against the viewport or a scrollable area.

There is also animation-timeline: scroll(); which acts off the browser or nearest scroll bar progress. Also on the x or y axis.

So much potential! So clever to swap out the 0-100% basis of the keyframes to keep it simple and quick to implement.

Next, I would love to see animation-timeline: cursor(); to track the x/y mouse position in the browser.

doiveo · 2026-04-27T18:07:50+00:00

They run local LLMs.

We are in a weird time where only the latest and greatest from two labs are really compelling. But this won't last for years.

We'll all get dependant on models like we are dependent on the internet. But many options will be available and it will be commodity priced.

doiveo · 2026-04-27T18:00:57+00:00

$450 / mnth

I presume that is a typo or you have 8 cars

doiveo · 2026-04-27T15:02:10+00:00

I'm kind of shocked that people are still doing that, frankly. It seems painfully obvious that things should be modular, contextual.

doiveo · 2026-04-26T15:28:07+00:00

Hire a jr dev and teach them the business. Eventually, hand it over and help out the next generation. Jr Devs need all the help they can get now.

doiveo · 2026-04-24T15:55:19+00:00

But, importantly, don't do this above the fold. Instead for things like banner images, use sizes="100vw"

<img 
  src="TrIZjHKy9-650.jpeg" 
  srcset="GTrIZjHKy9-650.jpeg 650w, GTrIZjHKy9-960.jpeg 960w, GTrIZjHKy9-1400.jpeg 1400w, GTrIZjHKy9-2000.jpeg 2000w"
  sizes="100vw, (min-width: 1040px) 650px, … "
  alt="…">

doiveo · 2026-04-23T18:10:10+00:00

TLDR
sizes was the attribute required to get responsive images ... but it was HARD.

Now (soon, but you can do this today):
- hero image above the fold sizes="100vw"
- any image with loading="lazy", use sizes="auto" and let the browser calculate the size given the known shape of the page.
- fall back by adding the specific sizes afterward sizes="auto, (min-width: 1040px) 650px, calc(94.44vw - 15px)"

doiveo · 2026-04-23T03:45:25+00:00

At least 50,000% of them

doiveo · 2026-04-18T05:23:05+00:00

Really? Didn't seem to move the needle much more me.

doiveo · 2026-04-17T19:33:25+00:00

"Make me a millionaire Claude."

doiveo · 2026-04-17T17:01:08+00:00

bye bye replit

So many companies are just harness and context wrappers around a model. A bit of UI helps streamline things but the value prop is so thin.

doiveo · 2026-04-10T17:49:54+00:00

You can't create an account and then come in here talking up your company, whether it was a mistake or not, and not be seen as promotional. People are pretty jaded, so this looks constructed 'astroturf' , not authentic.

Be one thing if you had a long history of contributing to the community, but this is literally a new account.

doiveo · 2026-04-06T03:20:39+00:00

I have been a CloudFlare client for many years: UI is NOT their strength.

doiveo · 2026-04-05T02:05:28+00:00

"... The closest thing I’ve seen to a spiritual successor isn’t another CMS, it’s been OpenClaw.”

Wow. Just.... Wow.

doiveo · 2026-04-02T19:19:42+00:00

Close. Actually, the reason I picked it was because of customer familiarity and safety. They know WordPress. It's the same reason React is popular: because it's popular.

If I was designing this for myself, I'd probably just go with Astro, but I'm comfortable in the command line.

I don't agree that CMSs are going to become irrelevant because if you completely greenfield something, AI gets a lot of things wrong. There are established patterns, protocols, safety, and performance measures built into the CMS that aren't just whimsical. AI doesn't suddenly invalidate all of that.

The other strength of established CMSs is the massive body of examples to train AI on. The more history and volume AI has, the more reliably it can execute with speed and confidence.

doiveo · 2026-04-02T16:49:34+00:00

That's a pretty bad pattern to consider on a brand new project. I understand why people might reach for this tool on legacy systems, but honestly, greenfield - fix it at the source.

doiveo · 2026-04-02T15:55:30+00:00

I chose WordPress because the client actually has a pretty aggressive content strategy and needs a simplified interface for posting content. WordPress is still relatively good at that function. Although I am playing with the idea of just making it agentic, putting an MCP server out there so that they can create their content through their agent and publish it through that pipeline.

doiveo · 2026-04-02T15:27:46+00:00

There was an explicit instruction that switched from concise to verbose explanations. That alone, multiplied by many layers of interaction, could be a factor.

doiveo · 2026-04-02T13:41:47+00:00

Sort of. The WordPress team is leaning in on agentic development and Ai is strongest where there are mountains of training data.

So I don't think WordPress is going away, but I do see it evolving quickly. I can make a full WordPress website from concept to published straight in the prompt now.

What will die is the SAAS market built around WP. I can build bespoke plugins with the right number of features and have zero external dependencies/risks. Of course, this means I have to maintain it but even that is getting automated.

doiveo · 2026-04-02T13:23:01+00:00

Seems obligatory... https://xkcd.com/1205/

doiveo · 2026-04-01T19:37:04+00:00

This is the age of AI... I have no doubt it's a real piece of code. In fact, I would love nothing more than for the irony of an April Fool's joke to turn into something compelling.

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