[relaxing]

The AI folks are really getting desperate to be churning out this slop.

A Linux user who’d never installed VLC was weird enough, but the part where they recreate youtube from first principles really strains credulity.

[russelg]

So what?

They achieved their goal of digitising their family videos and allowing their siblings to view them in a coherent way, which they very likely would not have been able to accomplish without the help of AI. Not without like triple the time investment.

They aren't releasing a product here, it's bespoke software which serves the exact purpose they need it to. This is exactly what AI is good for.

[SamPatt]

Bro, you're paranoid. I'm the author. Look at my blog. I write my stories myself. I wrote a geoguessr article last year that hit the top of HN.

Yes, I've used VLC. But I'm using a fairly new machine and hadn't installed it yet.

Why does it strain credulity to make this myself? I explain it step by step. I enjoy using AI to build stuff myself.