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an in-depth post about how he made it: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/

extremely fascinating details in here

As someone who knows something in the space he brags about, it is fascinating to see the dunning kruger effect in realtime here. Even with all those claudes in “adversarial review”.

Realtime soft lighting is possible on mobile but if he had known that, i bet claude woulda been able to do it but he didnt.

If there was even the speckle of curiosity, he would have asked beyond “dont make mistakes” but i guess he was too busy riding his bike while burning 50k to make a blog.

I agree about what you mean with the dunning kruger effect. A similar effect is when I work with AI in a field where I don't know as much, and I would think that the AI works much better there or even has more than expert knowledge. So I do not (necessarily) overestimate myself, but the AI's capabilities, which can be as dangerous for society.

(Note that latest research shows that the dunning kruger effect might only be a statistical artefact.)

Realtime soft lighting is possible but at what cost, for such static scene? I think the light bake technique he used is, in fact, the appropriate way to get beautiful visual results with the upside of good performance in any hardware. It's curious to say Dunning Kruger effect when I do believe the decision reached is possibly conscious about the performance shortcomings of bouncing light in real time

Most studio or developer I know that works with 3D in web always use baked lighting. Realtime always cost more especially on mobile.

Personally, I am stunned at how fast - and autonomously - you can get to a very decent 80/20 result with AI these days. And since Opus 5.5 was released I really think it hit another level.

As an example, this was a "silly" one-shot prompt/result I created/received, which goes into a similar direction of what Felix created in terms of UX and aesthetics:

https://poster-pillar.sidequests.p-john.com/

Sure it lacks the finish and attention to detail. But this was one prompt (vs. 60 threads).

Thoughts: I find this both exciting and a bit unsettling. Idea-to-product time in tech just keeps shrinking and shrinking. I feel limited by my own ideas now (1), and by the fact that everything still remains "digital" - ChatGPT still can't build me a house or fix my broken knee (2).

Unlike others, the issue I have is not using AI to have fun and be creative, I do it all the time like a one off table top character sheet tool.

It is the claim that the 60 agents produced competent optimized code when the response here clearly shows that is not the case. But I can excuse ignorance when someone is learning but there was no learning here. There was no interest in learning anything more than “i like that, no not that, make it run better”.

Then this bold claim about how creativity has somehow fundamentally changed because they found a new kind of ink for their printer. Sure kid.

Sure, I guess it was "just" a case study in how excessively far you can take your idea (or "taste") by supplementing and supercharging it with agents.

IMO the interesting part with this capability now (undoubtedly?) is to find the right applications/problems to solve... and yeah, why not every now and then have some fun and go full overkill with your personal website :-)

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