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by JumpCrisscross 849 days ago
Just spoke to a restaurant group owner in Mexico who was able to eliminate their web developer because he can now ask ChatGPT to draft up a basic website.

The kicker? It couldn't do the interactive menu their old website did, so now clicking menu links to a PDF. Which is always, ALWAYS, better.
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sgu999 849 days ago
> he can now ask ChatGPT to draft up a basic website.

I'm pretty sure he could have done that with one of the thousands tools like Wix, many years before ChatGPT.

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fragmede 849 days ago
Even just looking at ChatGPT as a better frontend to the Wix help docs, ChatGPT empowered this restaurant owner to do the job themselves, rather than having to have a person do it. Which means that person is out of a job. Good for the restaurant owner, but bad for that person. Which means it's down to personal relationships and how you treat people and all those soft skills that aren't programming.
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phatfish 849 days ago
Pretty sure he still does that. Unless ChatGPT can now test and deploy a website as well as generate text.
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slices 849 days ago
yes, but which one of thouse thousand, how long would it take to learn how to use it, etc. Still less friction in just asking ChatGPT to do this via the same interface you ask it to do a bunch of other stuff.
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saewitz 849 days ago
It's better with accessibility?
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dorkwood 849 days ago
Sorry, but why is pdf better than html? If pdf is better, would you prefer every website just downloaded a pdf to your phone when you visit their url, instead of serving you html? If not, why is it different for a restaurant menu?
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uses 848 days ago
It's better in the pragmatic sense of like, it's more likely to be updated. They already have a PDF or docx laying around because they had to design their print menu, so now they can just upload it. But yes, ideally the menu would be html and would be accurate and up to date and responsive on mobile.
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