John Polacek

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Staff Software Engineer at VEG

Websites that Create Themselves

Not Yet News, Speculative Satire from the Future

I’ve been wanting to experiment with creating websites that have automated content generation using AI. So I built Not Yet News, a satirical news website with articles set 100 years in the future, loosely based on today's headlines.

My brother Steve came up with the name and quickly threw together a logo. I played around with prompt engineering and discovered that it works best when you have a unique seed to provide the OpenAI API so I made a script that gets the current headlines from the NYTimes API. The tricky part proved to be finding a good service to execute the long-running node script that generates the content.

I wrote more in-depth about it in How to Build Dynamic Websites Powered by Automated AI-Generated Content on Medium.

Already thinking about what else I might use this pattern with.