saw someone vibe coding at a cafe
no voice mode
no multi-agent setup
no 3-hour extended thinking loops
no switching between Codex and Claude Code
just typing a prompt, and staring at the screen, waiting for the response
like a psychopath
today’s experiment: chimera. a little tool that let’s you realtime morph through a design system matrix generated by 4 reference images.
this one was inspired by listening to @jameygannon talk about her process on Dive Club with @ridd_design and How I AI with @clairevo. her approach to choosing moodboards over prompts made me wonder what might be possible if we applied that same approach to generative UI. and after a few dead ends, the idea turned into chimera.
the results are very generic at the moment but I might tune it up if people seem interested.
the big reminder for me is how much more inspiring a tool feels when you can explore in realtime instead of waiting for results every time you make a change.
lots more things to try in that direction.
Some of you who have been following since 2015 may remember our first iteration of Follow My Score. We did a YouTube "Likes Campaign." Well, it's been 10 YEARS! We're doing something similar this time around with our "sodelicious series" (opt-in only). Winner gets fun stuff too
Common misconception: “You need 21 fingers to play a 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21 polyrhythm.” NO. You only need 10! Here’s the proof by @datramt
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@abacaj Any time it provides a shell command to download a library, I look up the library on google instead. Half the time it’s deprecated and suggesting different libraries or suggests using a different cli.
@piesaac It is currently quite good at providing snippets for solving small-scale problems, especially if prompted well. It gets more and more finicky the more layers of complexity to you add to it. Def need to have a human hand in there checking its work, testing, and fixing
I gotta give a huge shout-out to our https://t.co/3bBIzE8VSu full stack developer & co-founder, zach, who recently came up with some actual technical WIZARDRY making it possible to RENDER A 2-HOUR SCORE VIDEO IN LESS THAN 50 SECONDS 👀🔥🚀
For those interested, I use dark mode for our short-form vertical score videos not just because it looks cool, but for color contrast against the white text/overlays on TikTok, Reels, & Shorts
Now that I actually have a comfortable amount of money, I can say that it does indeed buy happiness. The guilt free occasional food delivery, being able to afford going out w friends, buying something that makes life easier, health appointments!, hiring a service. Y’ALL THEY LIED