IKEA – 3D Guide(sael.net) |
IKEA – 3D Guide(sael.net) |
But I also almost left immediately because this claudism at the top really hurt to read:
> Every dowel, cam lock and nail where the page puts it.
I always feel so manipulated when I read it regurgitating the prompt you gave it in such an advertisey way, like it's trying to assure you it met _every_ word of the prompt, regardless of how it actually did.
Over the last few decades I’ve read many technical docs that were obviously mechanically translated from some other language. This is much better.
It is a bit different with translation, in that case AI translation might get closer to the original intent than manual translation by the author. But otherwise I want the words from their brain meats, not layers removed and cleansed by system prompts and training.
But the creator doesn't care because their goal isn't to make a tool people want to use. They make a minimum viable product, that looks super impressive but lacks that final polish and move on.
It infuriates me enough, that when I get the time I'm going to recreate the 'lighthouses of the world' example I saw the other day. Only I'm going to do it right...
I’ve always found it annoying when people make declarations like this. You can speak criticize a work without attacking someone’s personality.
1. Every piece of wood had small round sticker on it with a number eg: ③ that could be reference in the manual. No having to try to figure out if the piece in the manual has the exact hole pattern or whatever
2. All of the screws, dowels, etc were in separate bags, each with a letter on it Ⓚ
3. It had extra supports here an there - maybe some ikea furniture has this too but I haven't seen it.
Ikea was best in that the instructions are designed to be universal, no words.
Now I prompt LLMs all day for my job and it is much different. Yes, AI allows me to write way more than in the pre-AI age, but it is certainly fun in a different way, not the kind of IKEA-assembly fun.
The actual paper instructions are super clear and don’t have all the junk distracting extras.
The art of communication is simplicity.