Are you searching for a tool to help you fix bugs and issues on your AI-built website? Maybe you’re trying to find the best AI to help to fix website bugs.
Well, I’m here to tell you that the best tool might actually be.. a human. Yep. let me explain.
The best AI for fixing website bugs
Perhaps the best tool out there isn’t a faceless machine designed to appease every prompt, no matter if it’s possible or not.
Perhaps the best tool for the job is the humans that designed and built the web. The ones who understand it. Who have worked with it over the many years. Through the tough times of browser quirks, table layouts and when centring a div was actually a pain.
What’s so good about humans?
Humans have empathy, an emotional intelligence that a machine just can’t possess. We can read physical queues, even when not in person, perhaps over the phone. A human can feel client frustration, talk openly about what is going wrong and how best to fix it.
Like AI, we can give multiple possible solutions to a problem. Talk about technical debt and the pros and cons of different methods. We can understand your audience better than a machine can. Why is that, you ask? It’s because your audience is other humans.
Whether you are trying to sell a product or a service, it is a human at the other end making the decision to buy. The best companies know this and work towards making their websites and applications accessible, human readable and easy to use.
Why do most AI-driven websites look the same?
The truth is, Generative AI in it’s current form isn’t really all that intelligent. It certainly isn’t creative.
Sure, it has a vast array of knowledge at it’s disposal. Way more than one human could hold in their brain. However not all of it is useful. It has bias built in (by the businesses running them). Patterns ‘naturally’ form (naturally being in inverted commas because AI is of course, artificial).
Gen AI as a whole is a pattern finder. Utilising the massive datasets it is trained on. But that’s all it is. It’s like an extended search system really, but with a weird conversational aspect.
The problems with the patterns
When people first started using AI to create websites or apps, for example asking it to create a weather app, they all looked like a clone of Apple Weather you would see on an iPhone. Why? because that was a bias in the system of data that is was trained on.
The same can be said for marketing websites for tech businesses. Most websites followed the same copywriting pattern. Cream, Purple and Orange were commonly seen as the colour palette. A blend of grotesque sans-serifs with a well-meaning ‘make me look professional yet friendly’ italic serif on one phrase.
All of them felt.. beige. In a sense that they all looked and sounded the same. None of them actually being unique. Which as we all know, is how you stand out from a crowd.
What happened to creativity?
The sad truth is that many people have outsourced their creative and critical thoughts to AI. In an attempt to gain speed and optimisation.
Trouble with that approach is eventually everything will look and sound exactly the same. As it drives more and more into the stripped down conversion machine, the human elements will be lost entirely. Machines talking to machines who in turn invoke machines to transfer money between machines.
It will result in the fucking Matrix. Unfortunately, Neo isn’t here to save us.
How to properly fix bugs with a human
Talk to them. You know, like people used to do in the good ol’ days. Explain your frustrations and the issues you’re facing. Share the codebase. Share what you’d like to achieve from the website. Let them get to work.
Will you get results in 30 seconds that you can blindly copy and paste into your site? No. Absolutely not. Instead you will get a person using their real intelligence to fix your website bugs, in real human time. Sleep cycles included. The problem with that? None that I can see. We’ve operated the internet for decades without Generative AI. Let’s continue to do so, shall we?
Humans to the rescue.