This is the way!

It is incredible how far you get with a single HTML-file, containing styles and JS, when building dashboards, small apps and other utilities that can interact with an API or otherwise fetch data from somwhere.

I just drop it on my personal ~ folder on the shared server at work and voilà, everyone can check it out and use it immediately!

I never really thought about this use case before, and I feel a bit dumb because of that. It’s so obvious that it would be useful. My focus with LLMs so far has been on The App, not all the ancillary stuff around The App. All that ancillary stuff doesn’t have to be fully complete or polished and doesn’t have to handle every possible case. It just needs to be functional enough to be useful. When you’re done with it, throw it away and generate a new one tomorrow.

Same. When I iterate on a design for a new client, I create a simple index.html with inline CSS and when I'm satisfied with the result I take the file and insert it next to my project template files and just ask the LLM to take the design from index.html and work it in the template files.

A while back I figured out this trick and used it to crank out a bunch of calculators for analog electronics: https://cofree.coffee/~solomon/calculators/

its super convenient to be able to throw tools like this together and load them on a static site.

This is also what Claude does on web when you ask for html (it creates it as an artifact), so the model is probably really well trained for it.

My manager does this and with a straight face comes to me after with it and goes “put this in production” and wonders why it takes more than 5 minutes.

I absolutely hate the absolute rot these tools have caused to people’s brains.

Same - and always had been, really, even before LLM codegen. Always try it out in the smallest quickest simplest case first! You can always make it bigger and more complicated later.

I recommend allowing AI to use TailwindCSS and Alpine in the context, as this would generate great lightweight dynamic web pages.