The Clinamenic Co-Living Diary

[sufi]

Aka freestyling?

llm whispering

 

[catalog]

Which is akin to freestyling?

 

[Clinamenic]

Yeah basically we’re getting into territory where you can do certain software development tasks just with natural language prompting, so I tell an ai assistant that I want some code that does certain things, and it can build it for you. The more complex the task, the more detailed your rules/prompting/documentation efforts need to be, because the ai assistants are powerful but still pretty unwieldy

 

[version]

Coding equivalent of automatic writing?

 

[catalog]

Wow what you working on?

 

[Clinamenic]

Coding equivalent of automatic writing?

Maybe yeah, but I;m not sure what you mean by automatic writing, stuff like oulipo?

 

[luka]

no

 

[Clinamenic]

Wow what you working on?

I'm making an app to create fonts, with a built-in canvas for svg path creation, glyph iteration management, and multi-style font families

 

[Clinamenic]

no

Helpful as always!

 

[luka]

automatic writing is writing that bypasses conscious control, or attempts to. sometimes for meduimistic purposes.

 

[luka]

so typically you would write at speed without forethought or censoring the contents.
like a written version of what freud would try to induce in his patients.

 

[luka]

the surreslists did it and some occultists. everyone should try it.

 

[Clinamenic]

So like Kerouac's spontaneous prose, only reframed in a way Dissensus would approve of?

 

[Clinamenic]

I'm making an app to create fonts, with a built-in canvas for svg path creation, glyph iteration management, and multi-style font families

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Calling it Runique

 

[luka]

 

[luka]

So like Kerouac's spontaneous prose, only reframed in a way Dissensus would approve of?

kerouac isnt trying to write what he doesn't know. hes telling a story. hes reminiscing. so in a differnt category .

 

[sufi]

I'm making an app to create fonts, with a built-in canvas for svg path creation, glyph iteration management, and multi-style font families

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make it do arabic fonts please

 

[Clinamenic]

Ah I see, well then I suppose vibe-coding could be comparable, if you approached it similarly, in that you can essentially let the coding assistant create what it wants, and you're just the steersman.

 

[Clinamenic]

make it do arabic fonts please

Yeah anything with unicode characters! I'm starting with just the basic latin unicode character set, but the app should work with any arbitrary unicode characters

 

[sufi]

Ah I see, well then I suppose vibe-coding could be comparable, if you approached it similarly, in that you can essentially let the coding assistant create what it wants, and you're just the steersman.

i made this https://cotds.dissensus.com/ using that technique

there is too much intention for it to be automatic writing/coding - you are requesting things which the ai carries out in its mysterious way,
so if the ai is like your subconscious code brain you're still steering.
and you have to make your requests ai compatible: in careful bitesize chunks with all ambiguity removed or the ai gets lazy and comes up with shit or gets confused, so ultimately its a form of submission to the llm when you are dismantling your concept into ai format

but it is super useful for coding 🤩🤩🤩