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

19 points by tomasslavicek ago | 9 comments

Zee2 |next [-]

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 |root |parent |next [-]

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 |root |parent |next |previous [-]

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

gregschlom |root |parent |next |previous [-]

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

WillPostForFood |root |parent |previous [-]

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

Ronsenshi |root |parent |next [-]

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 |root |parent |next |previous [-]

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

what |root |parent |previous [-]

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

xnx |previous [-]

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"