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Wow looks like total shit and eventually very hard to take on and actually improve it, given the convoluted code it generated, YET people are impressed. What world are we living in...

empath754mo ago

When people figure out how to make a computer do something that it couldn't do before, that is interesting and impressive. It doesn't need to be useful.

Kiro4mo ago

You can criticize the code but "wow looks like total shit" is such an embarrassing thing to say considering the context. Imagine going back a few years and show them a tool outputting this from text. No-one would believe it.

hollowturtle4mo ago

It simply is non impressive at all to me, we had an industry(games not web) that was the most innovativd and was able to do things, and in part still is, thousands of years ahead of the slop glorified here

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SXXOP4mo ago

You are missing the point of this exercise. This is not about code quality - its about capacity of model to generate visuals with no guidance.

For the code quality it can really be as good or as bad ad as you desire. In this case it is what it is because I put zero effort into it.

hollowturtle4mo ago

non impressive at all to me, visuals are bad not even a student starting in animations would produce that slop. You're glorifying slop, as for the code quality that's not about styling or semantics the tecniques used are BAD and won't scale at all, eg setTimeout is not designed to be run at exactly that interval, it's just a timeout suggestion. And no it cannot be good or bad as you desire it's just bad, I have YET to see something better than an animation student on the first year would do. You're destroying the software industry with this mentality

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hollowturtle4mo ago

Let me double down to get even more downvotes, here's a snippet of the code:

> setTimeout(() => showSub("Ah, Earl Grey.", 2000), 1000);

> setTimeout(() => showSub("Finally some peace.", 2000), 3500);

> // Scene 2

> setTimeout(() => showSub("Armor Clanking", 2000), 7000);

> setTimeout(() => showSub("Heavy Breathing", 2000), 10000);

If we will lose our jobs to this dumb slop I'd rather be happy doing something else

sejje4mo ago

How would you do it?

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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arjie4mo ago

This is bloody magical. I cannot believe it.

fatty_patty894mo ago

Seizure warning for the above link

edit: flashing lights at the end seem to be mostly becauseo f darkreader extension

nyantaro14mo ago

we are so cooked

camdenreslink4mo ago

That SVG is impressive, but wouldn’t be usable in a real product as-is.

WithinReason4mo ago

more than the goblin?

fromwilliam4mo ago

This is honestly incredible

hollowturtle4mo ago

Wow looks like total shit and eventually very hard to take on and actually improve it, given the convoluted code it generated, YET people are impressed. What world are we living in...

empath754mo ago

When people figure out how to make a computer do something that it couldn't do before, that is interesting and impressive. It doesn't need to be useful.

Kiro4mo ago

hollowturtle4mo ago

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SXXOP4mo ago

You are missing the point of this exercise. This is not about code quality - its about capacity of model to generate visuals with no guidance.

For the code quality it can really be as good or as bad ad as you desire. In this case it is what it is because I put zero effort into it.

hollowturtle4mo ago

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hollowturtle4mo ago

Let me double down to get even more downvotes, here's a snippet of the code:

> setTimeout(() => showSub("Ah, Earl Grey.", 2000), 1000);

> setTimeout(() => showSub("Finally some peace.", 2000), 3500);