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"I have no idea how to use Blender"
Right now we are using AI to automate the tools we've built for ourselves. I've been wondering, who builds tools now if AI are the primary users? Will AI agents build and publish tools for the greater good? Or will vendors hold back AI generated composable modules as a competitive advantage.
Similarly for languages, I wonder if or when AI generates machine code and skips all our higher order languages we've built for human needs.
an in-depth post about how he made it: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/
extremely fascinating details in here
A Claude supervising a fleet of Claudes on a fleet of Cloud VMs with intricate knowledge of all flights of white collar work (cf https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/).
Traditional software engineering is so dead for the 99% of use cases...
Given their current role, it finally explains a lot of things about why I don't like Anthropic's UIs.
Nice concept but I find the accessibility aspects really lacking. I suppose that was a non-goal.
I've seen a several AI-coded WebGL examples... I wonder if AI will mean the return of the Flash-style interactive websites.
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I don't like this.
I don't really know how to describe this any better. I have JavaScript disabled by default and got a decent lightweight blog index. The comments here on HN didn't make much sense so I enabled JS and WebGL. An image starts to load before I get this screen: "This scene needs WebGL, which isn't available in this browser." Cool. So I try a different browser and it works, but is very laggy.
I dunno. I guess it's an impressive tech demo. I mean 3D rendering in the browser is not new, but it's impressive that AIs can do something like this. It doesn't look like total crap. I guess it looks kinda neat.
But it's a terrible user interface. It would be cool if it was some handcrafted art. Not useful but human expression through sweat and dedication.
But this is an autogenerated remix of other people's art as it looks from the credits. Arranged in a 3D scene. So it's an extremely impractical user interface for what? Looking pretty? Making me go "wow"? I mean fair, that's subjective and if people feel that way that's fair.
I don't. I don't like it. I appreciate that there is a JS free version. I like it much more.
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Now some unfair nitpick.
When I was on the JS free version and did not know why this site is even submitted here I clicked on the post about Electron. The decent blog index made place to some dreaded slop blog page. This quote struck out to me:
> But: You might be surprised to hear that performance is not the primary reason why many Electron developers prefer a bundled engine.
I am in fact not surprised at all.
I just feel that this is descriptive.
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Feels so strange to recognize what's out the window. I hope this cannot be used to find where they live!
It froze my laptop after I clicked once.
Couldn't even SSH into it any more even though Tailscale showed it as alife. Had to reboot.
So this website definitely left an impression.
For a moment I felt like Flash and Director are back but I guess you call this UI-maxxing nowadays.
It's pretty bleak that this guy chose to display rainy/dark/VHS/analogue/nihilistic penguin as the central motif here. There's certainly a lot to unpack.
Oh well, at least the site itself is technically excellent.
The snake game in the terminal has an off-by-one error with top line.
But overall very cool and impressive.
This is both creative and soulless at the same time. It runs like puke and reading the creating of, it is obvious why.
AI still cannot solve ignorance and all these examples from and of people/anthropic really showcase this. It is like watching a monkey shake a box of crayons until something interesting comes out.
Anthropic 30k mrs a day, custom version control to handle the churn vs some dude and an email list.
I found myself inside a simulation simulating simulations of a simulation.
And it was good.
Not concerned at all ^^; "he built the website in 24 hours" is great marketing for Claude. Now everyone wants to try building their own website the same way and burn tokens.
Clean site! (With noscript on)
Feeling like a Gabocorp moment?
Which tech stack did you use for this or is all Claude Code =)
I think the only controversial thing about this cute little homemade website is that he frames Electron as being a rebellion against the chaos of modern software, which, well.
W.o.W.!
the scary thing is that I love this slightly reactionary nostalgic design - mattering the content.
It probably does tell more about me than any technology or approach discussed here.
grrr...
I wonder how many millions of tokens it took.
+1 for supporting Vim movements on the virtual computer
I should be career hopping some more.
Reminds me a bit (although less interesting) of the 2000s JK Rowling website.
The view from his window is from Warschauer Brücke in Berlin Friedrichshain or nearby. I have fond memories living in that area and working on my software day and night.
I love the website, but one thing scares me in his list of projects:
08 Clippy 2025-nowUnusable, my whole browser is hanging with that tab open.
Fantastic.
Fyi, autoplays sound. Generally an unacceptable UI decision imho.
That's pretty neat.
super nice website bringing to old time
that's slick as hell
i like it
So good man
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Almost burned up my laptop within seconds of visiting the site. I thought at first it was something like that quite interesting windows 95 on the web demo (which may have been AI-generated too afaik), alas it was just some pretentious AI-generated art piece with little technical value (IMO). Still would have been a nice art piece even with the performance issues if it was (mostly) handwritten, but token-churned art just doesn't have the same feel, especially when it also tries to destroy your computer.