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Made by Mechanical Means

42 pointsby 5h agofelixrieseberg.com
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5h agoHN ↗

Great article, though if the author ever reads this: please choose "artificial", next time! It's already the first half of AI. If I'm bound to be an irrelevant spec in an irrelevant backwater of an irrelevant galaxy in the moments between abiogenesis and abioterminus, I can at least hope to make one obvious adjective a "thing".

That one Anthropic engineer made "vibecoding" happen overnight, so I write this with full confidence that they have magical influence over the ever-forming neologisms.

3h agoHN ↗

One small correction: Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" in February 2025, a year after leaving OpenAI for the second time. He joined Anthropic in May 2026.

3h agoHN ↗

One of the foremost tasks of art has always been the creation of a demand which could be fully satisfied only later. The history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, in a new art form. The extravagances and crudities of art which thus appear, particularly in the so-called decadent epochs, actually arise from the nucleus of its richest historical energies. In recent years, such barbarisms were abundant in Dadaism. It is only now that its impulse becomes discernible: Dadaism attempted to create by pictorial—and literary—means the effects which the public today seeks in the film.

Every fundamentally new, pioneering creation of demands will carry beyond its goal.

Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1935 https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf

Edit: to put a finer point on it, AI art like this is, through it's rigorous application in almost every previous medium, showing that there is a demand and energy for a new art form that depends on the changing technical standard and capabilities that AI has introduced. I don't know what it will be, but you can see some of the edges of it with how it is making waves in all the other mediums.

2h agoHN ↗

I loved the finished work. I'm looking forward to more art in the world.

Agents allow you to produce more, even the silly ideas you can't put too much effort into.

I really loved the Herzog parody, the overall taste and the parts I explored (I'm sure there's more). Well done!

1h agoHN ↗

What I really look forward to is people on IMDB creating alternative movie endings or alternative scripts instead of bashing the movies :)

Or in addition to, because the movie bashing is quite funny in itself.

2h agoHN ↗

There's a tangible quality to mechanical creations. Miss that hands-on feel when debugging distributed systems all day.

14m agoHN ↗

I started by creating a new Claude Project. Projects are becoming a layer that spans Chat, Cowork, and Code; you can think of them as sitting above domain-specific concepts. You talk to one Claude with the ability to spin off additional sessions, share files and memory between them, and supervise the entire fleet of Claudes to achieve goals.

Earlier this year, I would have joked that I get a lot done by telling a bunch of Claudes to do work. Now, I’ve put one Claude in charge of each of my projects, and in turn, that Claude knows how to manage tasks, investigations, and threads. We’re talking more about goals and less about how to achieve them. My little Project setup.

Every thread gets its own computer in the cloud, where it installs whatever it needs (Blender, FFmpeg, Playwright), checks its work with screenshots from a headless browser, and publishes a private preview page for me to click through. > All threads share one folder of files and one memory. Claude is smart enough to write down decisions I made in memory and makes sure newly started threads follow them without me having to repeat myself.

I must be missing the setting in my claude/claude code - how does one do that?

A project is just a custom prompt and some files you can attach.

Claude code is the same thing with some .claude files, and the folder directory is local to your machine.

Where is the ON switch for all of this? Showing the method and steps and prompts would be more useful than this post.