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Posted by Stwerner 20 hours ago

Warranty Void If Regenerated(nearzero.software)
As an experiment I started asking Claude to explain things to me with a fiction story and it ended up being really good, so I started seeing how far I could take it and what it would take to polish it enough to share publicly.

Over the last couple months, I've been building world bibles, writing and visual style guides, and other documents for this project… think the fiction equivalent of all the markdown files we use for agentic development now. After that, this was about two weeks of additional polish work to cut out a lot of fluff and a lot of the LLM-isms. Happy to answer any questions about the process too if that would be interesting to anybody.

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recursive 1 day ago|
I used to live in Marshfield WI. It's kind of jarring to see it mentioned "in the real world", the the extent that HN resembles that.
hmcamp 17 hours ago||
I can see this future happening!
WolfeReader 16 hours ago||
My favorite part was the illustration from inside the car. The rear-view mirror clearly shows un-mirrored store signs.

Prompts in, garbage out.

bstsb 1 day ago||
excellent story, it was both interesting and mildly terrifying. to think that one day software could be malleable seems so wrong to me - you would think having deterministic results is important for programming - and yet with "vibe coding" that really seems to be where it's going.
sanex 1 day ago|
The whole reason it is called software is because of its malleability :)
neversupervised 19 hours ago||
I don't oppose reading AI generated content in principle, but because it's free to generate, I always am less likely to read super long prose that is AI generated. So the question is whether someone has taken the time to keep it as long as necessary but not longer. Or if there are ways to make it easier for me to commit to the experience, with a sort of TLDR
chse_cake 1 day ago||
this is such a beautiful essay. thank you op for posting. made my day :)
MagicMoonlight 5 hours ago||
I was going to say the author should try writing fiction because it’s quite engaging, then I realised it’s just AI slop.

It explains why it kind of lost its way towards the end. Another thousand hours of everyone’s time wasted by a slop poster.

the_axiom 17 hours ago||
this was a ridiculously pointless story, I stopped after the second paragraph and came here to ask politely what was the point of it

what was my surprise when I read it was AI-generated

krater23 6 hours ago|
I stopped to read because I had the feel that the writer has no plan about what he was writing. It's completely bullshit. Software regenerating, changing Requirements in a product thats delivered and comes without source. Completely bullshit. When I now read here that it's AI, I'm happy to see that AI is still not capable of writing senseful texts.
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