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Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages

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422 points simedw | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mromanuk ◴[01 Jul 25 14:51 UTC] No.44434455[source]▶
I definitely like the LLM in the middle, it’s a nice way to circumvent the SEO machine and how Google has optimized writing in recent years. Removing all the cruft from a recipe is a brilliant case for an LLM. And I suspect more of this is coming: LLMs to filter. I mean, it would be nice to just read the recipe from HTML, but SEO has turned everything into an arms race.
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tines ◴[01 Jul 25 19:54 UTC] No.44437457[source]▶
> Removing all the cruft from a recipe is a brilliant case for an LLM

Is it though, when the LLM might mutate the recipe unpredictably? I can't believe people trust probabilistic software for cases that cannot tolerate error.

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kccqzy ◴[01 Jul 25 20:38 UTC] No.44437801[source]▶
I agree with you in general, but recipes are not a case where precision matters. I sometimes ask LLMs to give me a recipe and if it hallucinates something it will simply be taste bad. Not much different from a human-written recipe where the human has drastically different tastes than I do. Also you basically never apply the recipe blindly; you have intuition from years of cooking to know you need to adjust recipes to taste.
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1. tines ◴[01 Jul 25 21:05 UTC] No.44438002[source]▶
Huh? You don't care if an LLM switches pounds to kilograms because... recipes might taste bad anyway????
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2. kccqzy ◴[01 Jul 25 21:53 UTC] No.44438328[source]▶
Switching pounds with kilograms is off by a factor of two. Most people capable of cooking should have the intuition to know something is awfully wrong if you are off by a factor of two, especially since pounds and kilograms are fairly large units when it comes to cooking.