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Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude

Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?

vesterde 6d ago
Please point out the claudeisms, I want to clear them all. V1 looked like complete Opus slop, but since I make many little sites all the time I can get it to undo a lot of them, one at a time. I just explicitly tell it the aesthetic to avoid per-element (like the famous left border), and eventually it looks okish. Edit: Ah and for text, Standard Technical English is a good instruction to give it, but I also told it to be dry and technical, and no embelish or do storytelling. And some manual editing out of cringe stuff still after that.
- bonsai_spool 6d ago
  I don't think you can fix the Claude tells without rewriting everything on your own - but I do read/write a lot for work, so I think about voice a lot. Here's a handful of sentences that I feel a human would not have used but which are common Claude constructions: "the alarming ones that are harmless" - We don't put dependent clauses at the end of sentences like this except for unusual emphasis 'quietly' - overused by Claude the entries here are the moments where the guesswork shows - same as first example "none of this needs damage or disease" - Also would be written differently as a human. Just try saying some of these things aloud and you'll feel odd 'unknown. nobody has counted it'
- ball_of_lint 5d ago
  https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/geometric-nightmares/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/geometric-nightma... > One hypothesis joins the two.
- phyzome 4d ago
  I'm not going to help people make their AI outputs harder to detect.
echelon 6d ago
People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love. This is 100% a good thing. I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.
- deleted 6d ago
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- krapp 6d ago
  People were already building cool side projects to completion and giving them love before AI. You get downvoted for being weirdly ecstatic about AI "enabling" things that were already possible, while not caring about the human element that AI lacks.
  - echelon 6d ago
    People that say "things [...] were already possible" don't dream enough. Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early. I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploads, immortality, jet packs, surfing on Titan, etc. I legitimately enjoy the future we're hurtling towards. It's the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species. I hated the world where "Apple iPhones" were the pinnacle of human achievement. We might be able to vibe engineer our own iPhones in a few years. That'll be fun.
    - krapp 6d ago
      But building a website like the one posted here was already possible. you compared it to the early "indie" web. There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species." FFS we've stood on the moon.
      - echelon 6d ago
        > was already possible. The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable. And for those of us who can engineer, we're making 10x, 20x what we were before. I'm filling my life with all kinds of fun side projects, toys, games, utility software, automations. I don't look at libraries and software packages anymore - I just build what I need. This is like 3D printing for software. I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month. I am so excited about everything I'm going to be building. Time was a limit before. There is no limit now. > FFS we've stood on the moon. And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.

Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?

vesterde 6d ago

Please point out the claudeisms, I want to clear them all. V1 looked like complete Opus slop, but since I make many little sites all the time I can get it to undo a lot of them, one at a time. I just explicitly tell it the aesthetic to avoid per-element (like the famous left border), and eventually it looks okish. Edit: Ah and for text, Standard Technical English is a good instruction to give it, but I also told it to be dry and technical, and no embelish or do storytelling. And some manual editing out of cringe stuff still after that.

bonsai_spool 6d ago
I don't think you can fix the Claude tells without rewriting everything on your own - but I do read/write a lot for work, so I think about voice a lot. Here's a handful of sentences that I feel a human would not have used but which are common Claude constructions: "the alarming ones that are harmless" - We don't put dependent clauses at the end of sentences like this except for unusual emphasis 'quietly' - overused by Claude the entries here are the moments where the guesswork shows - same as first example "none of this needs damage or disease" - Also would be written differently as a human. Just try saying some of these things aloud and you'll feel odd 'unknown. nobody has counted it'
ball_of_lint 5d ago
https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/geometric-nightmares/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/geometric-nightma... > One hypothesis joins the two.
phyzome 4d ago
I'm not going to help people make their AI outputs harder to detect.

echelon 6d ago

People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love. This is 100% a good thing. I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.

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krapp 6d ago
People were already building cool side projects to completion and giving them love before AI. You get downvoted for being weirdly ecstatic about AI "enabling" things that were already possible, while not caring about the human element that AI lacks.
- echelon 6d ago
  People that say "things [...] were already possible" don't dream enough. Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early. I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploads, immortality, jet packs, surfing on Titan, etc. I legitimately enjoy the future we're hurtling towards. It's the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species. I hated the world where "Apple iPhones" were the pinnacle of human achievement. We might be able to vibe engineer our own iPhones in a few years. That'll be fun.
  - krapp 6d ago
    But building a website like the one posted here was already possible. you compared it to the early "indie" web. There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species." FFS we've stood on the moon.
    - echelon 6d ago
      > was already possible. The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable. And for those of us who can engineer, we're making 10x, 20x what we were before. I'm filling my life with all kinds of fun side projects, toys, games, utility software, automations. I don't look at libraries and software packages anymore - I just build what I need. This is like 3D printing for software. I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month. I am so excited about everything I'm going to be building. Time was a limit before. There is no limit now. > FFS we've stood on the moon. And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.