My Side Project's AI Twin
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YouTube
Ahoy, Scuppers! Stay a while and listen: the story of the King's Toaster, the oldest lesson about feature creep I know, and why AI coding makes it easier than ever to build one.
Slop-o-meter 26 A PINCH OF SLOP
| Direction & edit | Claude cut pauses, grafted 11 mic-drop pickups | +7.5 | |
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| Animation & render code | Claude coded the cards, flowchart, robot mouth | +4 | |
| Lyrics & script | Claude drafted my cue sheet; I talked my own way | +3.8 | |
| Motion graphics & lyrics | Motion graphics + whisper subtitles | +3.8 | |
| Generated images | Gemini drew the battle + cane ($0.17), rest reused | +2.5 | |
| Tracking, masks & depth | Face + hand tracking for the mouth and props | +2.5 | |
| Research & critique | Claude screenshotted both sites, fact-checked me | +1.5 | |
| Audio mastering | Loudness levelled to -14 LUFS | +0.5 |
No AI: Generated video · Generated music & vocals
By hand: the idea · the story, from a mentor · every word, unscripted · my camera and voice · re-recording what the mic ate
Inspirations
Video
- The King's Toaster, the old feature-creep parable
- Deckard Cain, Diablo ("Stay a while and listen")
