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by estsauver 141 days ago
I think it's actually already there. It's definitely possible to make these sorts of explainers with something like a Claude Code, you just have to spend a fair amount of time making sure that it's actually doing what you expect it to do. I think the biggest danger with something like a Claude Code is that you get something that looks functionally correct but that the details are suddenly wrong on. I wrote a little bit about this on my blog for some of the places that I've done visualizations actually, and I think it's remarkably easy to iterate on them now.

https://estsauver.com/blog/scaling-visualizations
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mock-possum 140 days ago
> Someone like Bartosz Ciechanowski is still operating at a level I can't touch. His work reflects years of accumulated craft and a visual intuition that I don't have.

Seems like you’re contradicting yourself a bit here- is it actually possible to make the sort of explainers from TFA, or is the author operating at a level you can’t touch?

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moralestapia 141 days ago
Hey, that's a pretty great article! Thanks for sharing.

(I hope you don't get downvoted by Chichanowski's fanboys. Sad to see people being against innovation, on this site of all places.)

I think it's only a matter of time, AI history has been a cycle of "yeah, but it will never do this", then literal weeks later it does it, lol.

We should think about how each part of the iteration cycle you describe can be improved. This is definitely a problem that can be solved!

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