I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears (myday24.com)
18 points by tomasslavicek 4 days ago
Zee2 4 hours 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 an hour 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
I didn't recognize Claude but the thing was unreadable and after a while I figured out it must be AI.
gregschlom 23 minutes ago
Came here to say the same thing, glad I'm not the only one. Unreadable
WillPostForFood 3 hours 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
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
Google Translate usually writes better than this (closer to ESL-grade English, IMHO).
what 35 minutes 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
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"