Intoxicating, non-toxic! 27+ years of interdisciplinary opensource R&D, software dev, computational art/design/craft/edu, landscape/nature photography, kallitypes, salt prints, electronic music. Trying to do meaningful work. Creator & maintainer of the thi.ng ecosystem of 200+ code libraries. Except boosts/linked content, all published media is my own work & copyright by me. Most posts delete >2 months. Available for consulting/commissions. Searchable. he/him # ThingUmbrella # TypeScript # Zig # WASM # Forth # LandscapePhotography # AltProcess # Kallitype # Geometry # Graphics # GenerativeArt # PermaComputing # Synth # Music4Coding # Hiking
Intoxicating, non-toxic! 27+ years of interdisciplinary opensource R&D, software dev, computational art/design/craft/edu, landscape/nature photography, kallitypes, salt prints, electronic music. Trying to do meaningful work. Creator & maintainer of the thi.ng ecosystem of 200+ code libraries. Except boosts/linked content, all published media is my own work & copyright by me. Most posts delete >2 months. Available for consulting/commissions. Searchable. he/him # ThingUmbrella # TypeScript # Zig # WASM # Forth # LandscapePhotography # AltProcess # Kallitype # Geometry # Graphics # GenerativeArt # PermaComputing # Synth # Music4Coding # Hiking
Reading through Anthropic's official repo for giving agents various "super skills"[1]... There's an "algorithmic art" skill and the instructions are explicitly encouraging pure deception as one of the key "critical guidelines":
"The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise," "painstaking optimization," "master-level implementation.""
https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md
For someone who's been working in this field for almost 30 years, this "skills.md" file is just the worst... and so far off the mark! 🤮
Touch some effing grass, Anthropic (and all boosters)! How can so many people think this approach is _the_ future? The map is not the terrain...
[1] Alone the premise of this repo is pure comedy gold and pure sadness in equal measures!
