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Re: AI World Clocks

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Generate an image of a clock face, but instead of the usual 12 hour numbering, number it with 13 hours. Gemini, 2.5 Flash or "Nano Banana" or whatever we're calling it these days. https://imgur.com/a/1sSeFX7 A normal (ish) 12h clock. It numbered it twice, in two concentric rings. The outer ring is normal, but the inner ring numbers the 4th hour as "IIII" (fine, and a thing that clocks do) and the 8th hour as "VIIII"…

It should be pretty clear already that anything which is based (limited?) to communicating words/text can never grasp conceptual thinking. We have yet to design a language to cover that, and it might be just a donquijotism we're all diving into.

I mean, that's not really "true".

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0f1b67b7-020c-46e9-9536-c...

Re: AI World Clocks

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I've been struggling all week trying to get Claude Code to write code to produce visual (not the usual, verifiable, text on a terminal) output in the form of a SDL_GPU rendered scene consisting of the usual things like shaders, pipelines, buffers, textures and samplers, vertex and index data and so on, and boy it just doesn't seem to know what it's doing. Despite providing paragraphs-long, detailed prompts. Despite d…

Have you given using MCPs to provide documentation and examples a shot? I always have to bring in docs since I don't work in Python and TS+React (which it seems more capable at) and force it to review those in addition to any specification. e.g. Context7

Haven't looked into MCPs yet. Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: AI World Clocks

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hi, I made this. thank you for posting. I love clocks and I love finding the edges of what any given technology is capable of. I've watched this for many hours and Kimi frequently gets the most accurate clock but also the least variation and is most boring. Qwen is often times the most insane and makes me laugh. Which one is "better?"

LOVE IT!

It would be really cool if I could zoom out and have everything scale properly!

Re: AI World Clocks

#187

Try adding to the prompt that it has a PhD in Computer Science and have many methods for dealing with complexity. This gives better results, at least for me.

Why does that give better results? Is this phenomena measurable? How would "you have a phd in computer science" change its ability to interpret prose? Every interaction with an LLM seems like superstition.

Re: AI World Clocks

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LLMs can't "look" at the rendered HTML output to see if what they generated makes sense or not. But there ought to be a way to do that right? To let the model iterate until what it generates looks right. Currently, at work, I'm using Cursor for something that has an OpenGL visualization program. It's incredibly frustrating trying to describe bugs to the AI because it is completely blind. Like I just wanna tell it "th…

You can absolutely do this. In fact, with Claude Anthropic encourages you to send it screenshots. It works very well if you aren't expecting pixel-perfection.

YMMV with other models but Sonnet 4.5 is good with things like this - writing the code, "seeing" the output and then iterating on it.

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