[compounding_it]

> to what end?

People making cooking websites, websites for their garden, etc usually have nowhere to go. A web app who is an agent for a customer will then deploy agents in the backend to deploy the website too.

Basically what one would do manually, you tell one agent to make another agent do it.

Meta agents are where are going it seems.

[tdeck]

> People making cooking websites, websites for their garden, etc usually have nowhere to go.

They've had WYSIWYG website builders since the late 1990s.

[carlosjobim]

They don't have anymore. At least not since Artisteer shut down.

[tdeck]

What about SquareSpace and the like?

[carlosjobim]

It's certainly a great and useful tool. But it's a website maker somewhat in the same way that a Facebook page or Instagram account is a website maker.

AFAIK you can't make a website on SquareSpace and download it to your computer, edit it locally and move it to a different host, etc.

In the past there were actual WYSIWYG editors which let you design your website or CMS theme and then do whatever you wished with it. Artisteer was the pinnacle of this. Then nerds took over with their command lines and Kubernetes.

Imagine if one day people decided that making and editing documents in Word was no longer possible, that they had to be hand coded and command line compiled and linted, and not mix tabs and spaces. That's what happened to website publishing. For no reason at all.

[tdeck]

2 minutes on Google showed me that DreamWeaver is still around and getting updates, so those desktop tools still exist as well.

[afxuh]

I think that's the real gap. Non-technical people don't want to learn DreamWeaver or SquareSpace's backend. They want to describe what they need and have it just work.

[kukkeliskuu]

Markdown.

[mook]

> People making cooking websites, websites for their garden, etc usually have nowhere to go.

You know, I kind of miss Geocities too.

[Fomite]

While large social media sites have captured lots of traffic, etc. I've had small websites for a local wargaming club, a very modest blog, etc. for decades requiring little or no technical expertise.

The idea that people who want modest websites need active agentic systems to do that is a really odd take.

[Gigachad]

Sadly they will be publishing on a web which has no human readers anymore because it’s been crowded out by 5 trillion AI slop gardening websites. And the only visitors will be other AI scraper bots.

Any actual readers will be on platforms which combat the bot spam.