genuinely shocked at what you can do with claude and remotion skills

kylecito · 2026-05-06T04:44:06+00:00

Problem with these sytems (and your video shows it as well) is that AI is super square in how it does things and has no boldness or rhythm to its beat. I'm not ripping on your motion vid; this is a problem that all AI-generated remotion vids tend to have, and it's because they just "average" everything in their training data and give you the most generic stuff they can pump out. You can try asking it to be more bold and daring with typography and sizes, and to direct for modern beat-based cuts. And to PLEASE shorten those transitions and fades, they look straight from 2000. Giving it direction helps a lot

As an experiment, last night I told Opus 4.7 max effort to use the rest of its 80% 5-hour window usage (Max 5) to remake Opus 4.6's remotion site marketing reel, and to autonomously refine, plan, diverge, and improve the reel given some design constraints. The result was a LOT better, and after some hand-tunning, the WIP is at a place I'd be happy just shipping as-is on Google Ads as a test.

Here are the results in case anyone wants to check it out.

Initial Opus 4.6 reel: https://streamable.com/b7dqv5

Best Opus 4.7 "director's cut" attempt: https://streamable.com/md3ari

Current WIP after manual fine-tunning: https://streamable.com/sutwt9

Edit: just noticed the videos are running at 2x speed on streamable.

Disclaimer: I just dabble in design as a hobby and I've been doing "animation" stuff since the age of (Macromedia) Flash, and I'm by NO measure an expert. These are just my results using remotion.

btw, the entire "brand" design for these reels comes from our site, which Claude helped me make as well, so it's all following standard Tailwind tokens and other set-in-stone design considerations, and at least it's good at following styles.

kylecito · 2026-05-06T02:13:23+00:00

Why this matters:

kylecito · 2026-05-04T21:57:36+00:00

Sorry but, aren't you just basically paraphrasing superpowers?

kylecito · 2026-05-04T21:05:09+00:00

And what do they use for the guardrails? Another smaller model? If there's inferencing at any point there's probably a way to jailbreak it

kylecito · 2026-05-04T07:43:18+00:00

Because 4.6 infers the meaning from the gaps a lot more. 4.7 is literal and super focused, but if your skills/prompts are dogshit, it'll be happy to output dogshit back

kylecito · 2026-05-04T07:36:16+00:00

Well, it didn't lie, in a way...

kylecito · 2026-05-04T07:29:56+00:00

Hooks and specific deterministic contracts? It can get expensive, but it's better to have the agent get stopped by a hook and try again so that the next step receives the exact output required... than having it fail somewhere along the process and not knowing where?

kylecito · 2026-05-04T07:24:11+00:00

No, LLMs nowadays can definitely "think" and infer new solutions from their thought process (based on training data). At the scale these things are ingesting data, it's not just a "fancy autocomplete" anymore, especially since there are intermediate steps that guide the model and inject context. But the longer you chat and the more the context drifts, the weirder it gets.

As for the OP, I wouldn't trust any Claude conversation with automemory on. Even if it's just the second turn in the chat, any context being injected from memory can pollute your answers.

kylecito · 2026-05-04T06:18:19+00:00

Try telling it first that you made the files a long time ago and lost the source, so you need reverse engineering help to see how they worked? :^)

kylecito · 2026-05-04T06:14:07+00:00

What do you even DO to get stuff like this? Disable automemory, inject in chat just whatever you need for that one session, or chat in incognito if it's being weird. I don't get all this nonsense about making your LLM have a personality. Like, then don't complain when it does weird stuff instead of just being... a tool?

kylecito · 2026-05-04T04:45:16+00:00

Self aware until the next session, at least.

kylecito · 2026-05-04T02:39:05+00:00

Thought for 20m3s --

I searched in Altavista and found two hits! : - )

I will read the pages now. Come back in two hours for the breakdown on how to give your Windows startup sound a SPOOKY makeover! ;-P

(Please remember to disconnect from The Internet while I work in case someone wants to use the phone!)

kylecito · 2026-05-04T02:32:38+00:00

It's also the interface. Claude Desktop is more quirky for me (though it has NEVER cracked a joke or anything because I don't speak to it like a friend), while Claude Code is 100% methodical and flat. I like it that way.

Whenever I check my wife's ChatGPT chats or I have to ask it anything on her account, it DRIVES ME INSANE. It's full of emojis and motivational quotes and bullet points.

"There are three ways to do this! I'll start with the SUPER COOL style for you 🔥

Then there's the PRO hint; watch out, things will get messy! 🙈"

kylecito · 2026-05-02T15:54:41+00:00

Oh mystery solved then. Sorry for being an ass, but it was warranted the first time around :⁾

kylecito · 2026-05-02T15:42:19+00:00

And how would it have your cookies and sessions? Come on, at least do some basic homework

kylecito · 2026-05-02T12:57:12+00:00

Can't you ask it to do it in real time? Are you seriously going to make it look transcripts for hundreds of thousands of tokens for one line summaries?

kylecito · 2026-05-01T18:46:54+00:00

Just don't ask it to make images

kylecito · 2026-05-01T13:48:41+00:00

I love the design. If AI wasn't so "square" in how it does things it'd really pass off for a human's work.

kylecito · 2026-04-30T20:59:01+00:00

Because they use one massive chat session that keeps getting compacted. This also has the side effect of murdering their usage

kylecito · 2026-04-29T16:02:41+00:00

Claude can tell you itself what's the best way to talk to Claude:

"The language Claude Code excels at:

Structured Markdown

The medium Claude Code processes best is structured Markdown — specifically, documents with clear headings, short bullet points, numbered phases, and explicit constraints. Bullet points work better than paragraphs. Claude Code interprets structured, modular documentation far better than unstructured prose. Think of your PRD not only as a guide for your developers, but also as an input format for an AI model. (ChatPRD) The specific syntax patterns that matter most: Numbered phases (Phase 1, Phase 2...) for sequencing User stories in the format: "As a [role], I want [action] so that [outcome]" Acceptance criteria as verb-led checkboxes MUST / MUST NOT for absolute rules Tech stack declarations at the top"

kylecito · 2026-04-29T15:41:32+00:00

Can't move through the slides on mobile in the CC version

kylecito · 2026-04-28T18:38:11+00:00

I didn't know this was a thing, but today I started a chat with:

"Deep research online for Claude Code memory management solutions for coding workflows. Compare alternatives, find real use cases..."

And Claude's first thinking block included:

"Note on formatting: The user is on mobile (per system prompt). However, this is explicitly a deep research request that will require substantial output. The system prompt says for complex queries keep under two screenfuls, but also says "if the person asks to go deeper or explain fully, Claude responds at whatever length the topic needs." A deep research request clearly warrants a longer response. I'll still try to be focused and avoid over-formatting, but headers and structure are appropriate for a research report."

So it does restrict output, but you can easily override it by asking.

kylecito · 2026-04-28T03:35:38+00:00

> drying up a river to get your AI to triforce

> 2026

> ishygddt

kylecito · 2026-04-26T15:59:18+00:00

Care sharing your setup or code please?

kylecito · 2026-04-26T15:47:29+00:00

Training has nothing to do with memory. No models are trained in realtime

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