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I asked mythos to make a "The Way Things Work"-inspired version.

Published: https://banagale.com/the-way-the-motor-works/

Source: https://github.com/banagale/the-way-the-motor-works

It lacks cave people but has the woolys.


Very neat. Thank you for sharing! I assume this was one shot as well -what sort of prompt did you use?

I’m sure folks would be interested even in a blog post comparing just this process with different Anthropic models if that’s something you do and need a content idea. :)


Here's the prompt I used:

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Can you make a version of this that is more in the style of "the way things work" the cool inventions book from the 90s with cavepeople and wooly mamoths and that illustration asthetic?

https://github.com/mohsen1/axial-flux-motor-explainer

If able, expand on the abilities of the page as requested in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475428

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So ya, that was a one shot to build.

Just as impressive was its ability to publish the source and get the version up on my personal site. That was also a one shot but aided by context and skills I have available for these purposes.


Wow, crazy man, crazy!

fig 4 timing looks wrong --- electromagnetic field from the windings is supposed to be 90 degrees ahead, on average, of the permanent magnet field.

They're talking about patching Claude Code.

> not even considering business security.

I suspect personal privacy and need to run AI workflows to handle the litany of administration tasks of a household will be what result in regular need for local AI.

Apple is already out front with this on a personal, individual level, but they are not obviously headed toward multiuser/family-level ~biz admin with a persistent server running local LLM.


Liquidity at some multiplier is easy to measure.

The value to the investors also includes the outcome of dealflow resulting from the relationships and network built up along the way.


Yes. I got somewhat stuck on the idea of the sets being kept together, partly because I thought it would be good to pass on used ones with the manuals.

But I found that if the builds are out they will be played with and fall apart and eventually become loose legos and that’s all fine and good.

Loose Legos on the floor making random things is fun. But building with sets and instructions is a different skill set and is entertaining in its own right.

The newer Friends series has a short reward video at the end of some builds which sort of puts the cherry on top of the set builds.


Isn’t this just a lagging indicator of popularity at the early liftoff of cli ai?

A sign of weariness in the rapid evolution of tooling, where people got off the train a stop too early?

A confusing overloaded acronym (cli) and term (skill) lacking the marketability / easy mind share of a unique acronym?

These all fail to establish a hearty reason to be.

The walking dead are still dead.


Maybe the delta is worse under their respective native harnesses.


It is possible to build automation that efficiently handles low level customization of new versions as they appear.


Yes. Audio Scrobbler was the thing.


The word for this type of boarding is “flophouse.”

This is the type of place one might be “waiting for the other shoe to drop.” Which carries a variety of potential meanings in this moment of AI.

Tangentially related: Mack and the boys lived in the “Palace Flophouse and Grill” in Cannery Row.

I suppose I must have looked up flophouse when reading all the Steinbeck I could get my hands on and it’s stuck w me.


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