9 comments

  • Zee2 4 hours ago ago

    This is covered in Claudeish, had to stop reading. I have to read enough of this at work...

    >What sits behind them is a calibre I had to solve the way a real one is solved, and this is why I bother.

    >A skeleton is a load-bearing machine with the metal taken away down to the last safe gram, so what is left is whatever carries a force, and no spoke is wider than its job.

    >Running and buildable are different questions, and the second is harder.

    >A drawn movement is a claim. Before anything gets a surface, I test it as a machine.

    If this isn't Claude-prose then the author has been reading too much of it...

    (oh, Pangram gives the entire thing 100%)

    • userbinator 2 hours ago ago

      I think "load-bearing" and "surface" is what gives it away. It continues to perplex me how something trained on human-written English ends up producing such output. It's much worse than the classic em-dashes and "it's not X, it's Y" (but maybe that was a different LLM?)

    • throwaway81523 2 hours ago ago

      I didn't recognize Claude but the thing was unreadable and after a while I figured out it must be AI.

    • gregschlom 33 minutes ago ago

      Came here to say the same thing, glad I'm not the only one. Unreadable

    • WillPostForFood 4 hours ago ago

      Give them some grace. The author is a Czech developer likely using AI to help write in a second language or translating.

      • Ronsenshi 3 hours ago ago

        If the whole thing is written by AI, then I wouldn't say that it was just "helping". Author could write it in their native language and then use AI to translate it - the result would be very different.

        The movement does look pretty neat. I'm not into watches, but it's impressive that purely rendered thing was designed to be realistic.

      • userbinator 2 hours ago ago

        Google Translate usually writes better than this (closer to ESL-grade English, IMHO).

      • what an hour ago ago

        Stop with this nonsense. They could write in their own language and translate it, which wouldn’t end up being clanklish.

  • xnx 3 hours ago ago

    Interesting, but title is missing the key word "Garmin".

    "How I build a mechanical Garmin watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears"