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Comment by bonsai_spool

1 day ago

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?

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vesterde  1 day 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  1 day 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'

echelon  1 day 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.

  • royal__  1 day ago

    I agree that this is an example of interesting and good AI usage. The person who made it obviously put thought into it. Unfortunately a lot of vibe coded sites do not have that same level of care

  • krapp  1 day 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  1 day 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.

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  • VCFundedGenYer  1 day ago

    What world are you living in where you’re okay with this?

    Phoned in websites / AI slop is not a good thing.

    Code something yourself on neocities.