You might be a little too close to the work to judge, but to me it still looks off. I suppose I might not immediately think it was AI, but there's something not quite human about it. The video contents are a little too sterile and clean, lacking character. The room is quite empty and the composition doesn't cause me to focus on any one thing. That said, you could probably improve a bit of it with some prompting.
The making-of post itself also is clearly LLM generated, probably by Claude, judging by the language used.
Gotcha, that makes sense. Thank you very much for the feedback.
I asked Claude to go through all the previous commits, the chat history and the 100 or so intermediate assets and create a timeline of sorts, the current page as you see it.
It's AI-generated as are the assets, the process and decisions depicted are human.
Yup! Sorry to not reply sooner. I took all y'all's feedback in and decided to replace all of it. You can now read the full, UNREDACTED conversation. Now there's zero AI-generated page-filler, just raw input/outputs.
I have to agree with @fleshdaddy. The explainer page itself looks like slop. I haven’t seen the original project but I’m afraid this makes me less interested, not more.
So funny, I didn't even expect the page itself to be such a blocker/issue!
I replied to another sibling: Based on your feedback, I scrapped it all and started over with the actual, unredacted Claude Code transcript plus a personal letter.
Thank you as well, just wrote below to the same point.
And I agree with your impression.
My goal here is to understand how can I demonstrate that I did in fact put work and care into the "thing" (video in this case).
Basically show that I did spend energy over time, that the final product took a few dozen iterations with a lot of dead ends (as opposed to a lazy one-shot "make good video, no mistakes")
So I do think this route can have merit given there is actual work, but how would a page like this look if the current one is not yet giving you a trustworthy vibe?
Love seeing the two example OS binaries side-by-side. Even though I don't know exactly what their differences mean, I feel like I'm getting a good impression of their "Gestalt." Thank you for sharing!
imho Nikita did a good job and I wish he stayed on.
Twitter is 100% better now than a year ago. For one, I haven't gotten a single bullshit click-farm fake-ass sock-puppet follower in months. Secondly, I see very few low-effort reply guys lately, human or otherwise.
Are you paying? I see an endless stream of AI or bot-like posts in the replies of basically every tweet I see with any traction, but i'm not a paying user so I may have the bad version of the platform.
Same. I just skip verified posts because the ones at the top are LLM replies. Unless I'm missing something, that should be easy to detect. Instead I've got ghost banned for a week+ now, no reason given and no way to appeal. X now is the place if you want to check for yourself the dead internet theory.
That's been my experience too. I left twitter a few years ago, but when I created a new account (only following AI and startups and people MAKING things, and movie and show clip accounts), it's been so awesome to keep track of all the stuff going on.
Amazing! I've been in a similar autoresearch-y rabbit-hole lately with getting Apple's 3B Foundation Model to match Sonnet 4.6 on a very specific task.
The result was: 90% parity achieved with a weird combination of a fine-tuned adapter + 1 deterministic step.
The main issue is the amount of information I have to go through to understand what I'm looking at. It's one of the side effects of writing with AI. Because it sees all tokens at once, it doesn't realize a reader might have no clue at all. What I recommend is trying to reduce the entire thing in 1-2 paragraphs that you wrote yourself. Cleaning up unnecessary prose and tucking away data that not everyone might be immediately interested in.
Yes and it also reminds me of one of my favorite books, Andreas Wagner's "Arrival Of the Fittest" and, connected, the Miller-Urey experiment of course.
Thank you, that was perfect Sumday-morning reading: Easy to read yet dense information-wise.
I learned today: The difference between ttf and otf, what strong and weak characters are, what an Em is and where kerning and leading really come from.
My favorite parts: Learning where the magic of ligatures and those tiny postion-changes in moments like "To" come from.
As someone who also recently spun up a new VPS to fiddle with claws:
I personally fully support Hetzner on this because, as a on-and-off customer since 21 years, their service has been absolutely flawless and always worth every cent. They care so I'm totally happy to pay whatever they need to make it work for them, too.
> What this does: apiKeyHelper tells Claude Code to run echo proxy-managed to get its API key. The sandbox’s network proxy intercepts outgoing API calls and swaps this sentinel value for your real Anthropic key, so the actual key never exists inside the sandbox.
This is similar to how I solved a BYOK(bring your own key) feature at work. We had a lot of hardcoded endpoints and structures on the client and code that was too difficult to move over a nice BYOK structure within the given timeframe. So we ended up making a proxy that basically injected customer keys as they passed through our servers. note that there are a lot security implications doing this.
This week, I created a video for a personal project using AI.
And, as the creator, I honestly can not say if it's "slop or not."
So I created a "behind the scenes" page that shows the process I went through before final cut, warts and all. You can find it at https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/making-of/
Do you think this helps you decide if it's slop or not?
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