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Rob Haisfield

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4 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Rob argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Haisfield: WebSim generates pages on the fly with zero 404 errors
“What if we could, like, put in any URL, and it will work, right? Like, there's no four oh fours. Everything exists. It just makes it up on the fly for you, right?”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 28:05 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Haisfield: Dylan Field tested generating Figma inside WebSim
“Dylan field actually posted this recently, like trying Figma in Figma or in web sim.”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 32:18 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Everything Rob Haisfield said on Latent Space that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Haisfield: WebSim gives language models far greater expressive tools
“That's like one of the things that's magic about WebSim generally is that it gives language models much far greater tools for expression, right?”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 30:19 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Insight
Haisfield: Opus handles much more complexity than Sonnet for web generation
“Like sonnet will still create things that kind of like floor you sometimes. Opus can just handle much more complexity. I'd say it is the big heuristic there.”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 46:08 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Assertion Supported
Haisfield: WebSim generates pages on the fly with zero 404 errors
“What if we could, like, put in any URL, and it will work, right? Like, there's no four oh fours. Everything exists. It just makes it up on the fly for you, right?”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 28:05 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Assertion Contradicted
Haisfield: Dylan Field tested generating Figma inside WebSim
“Dylan field actually posted this recently, like trying Figma in Figma or in web sim.”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 32:18 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Assertion Supported
Haisfield: Claude tolerates imperfect URL syntax when generating WebSim apps
“Like, you don't need to get the exact syntax of an actual URL. Claude's smart enough to figure it out.”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 36:58 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Disclosure
WebSim is working on exporting generated apps to standalone websites
“Yeah, we're working on that.”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 48:22 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Assertion Supported
Haisfield: WebSim accurately generates external RSS feeds to fetch live news data
“It just hallucinated a correct RSS feed and brought that in to its into this, I guess, you know, this wasn't a part of its like context window or anything because it's just displaying this stuff.”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 51:16 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Assertion Supported
Haisfield: WebSim can interpret arbitrary query parameters and gibberish in URLs
“You can add, like, kind of, like, even gibberish to the URL bar. And it'll figure out different things to do. You could say, tone it down a notch equals true, or not mention that equals true, even it'll work.”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 1:01:03 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Haisfield: A WebSim user created a novel 5D particle interface
“One of our users literally made a frickin', like, five-dimensional particle interface. Like, this is a completely novel UX.”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 53:10 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Apr 27, 2024 21m
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