Can websites build themselves?

[craig.duncan]

The Grid seems to think AI will solve it

https://thegrid.io/#30687

What do you think?

Craig

[Genc Kastrati]

I agree. I think a lot of the work we do today will become outsourced to AI or made simple enough to do that anyone will be able to do it through the help of AI.

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[Hugo Jacquet]

Hi Craig,

I think that projects like The Grid are interesting technically but a 

website like anything else cannot just be defined by metrics, rules of 

assumed "perfection" or "clean" design.

The trends, technological and cultural evolutions are defining and 

influencing our point of views and the "window" through which we are 

looking at usability, information and data. I don't think everything can 

be automatized, even by a very good AI algorithm, it will still embed the 

limitation of its creators and the boundaries belonging to the creation 

time.

However the approach of the concept is good in the sense that they are 

trying to remove the wasted time spent on reinventing the wheel to have 

the basic modern and current website features that can be found on the 

fancy high end websites around, especially when you don't need or want to 

have a specific complex design that is adapted to your needs or wishes. 

Which is of course the case for a lot of projects. It's focused on people 

with a very little IT knowledge and high budget constraints.

The main issue using a system that is rendering your website automatically 

is that you will loose a lot of control on the code, the performance, the 

security, the specific evolutions that you would want to add. You rely on 

a third party system in long term and switch to something else could be 

costly, long and messy.

The AI and automation are attractive for many reasons such as technology 

fanciness, having a quickly running project and reduce costs. But it is 

only reliable for small projects like a light corporate website, not for a 

complex platform or web application, especially managing sensitive data.

Hugo

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[Alex Faundez]

Benjie Moss wrote an interesting article about The Grid on webdesignerdepot:

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2014/12/is-the-grid-a-better-web-designer-than-you/

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