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hotpotatyesterday at 9:48 PM1 replyview on HN

@mitchellh what did you use for the memory visualizations? Looks nice, and the website plays well with mobile. Whats the stack?


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mitchellhyesterday at 9:55 PM

Static HTML/CSS generated by Opus 4.5.

I like using AI for visualizations because it is one-time use throwaway code, so the quality doesn't matter at all (above not being TOTALLY stupid), it doesn't need to be maintained. I review the end result carefully for correctness because it's on a topic I'm an expert of.

I produce non-reusable diagrams namespaced by blog post (so they're never used by any other post). I just sanity check that the implementation isn't like... mining bitcoin or leaking secrets (my personal site has no secrets to build) or something. After that, I don't care at all about that quality.

The information is conveys is the critical part, and diagrams like this make it so much more consumable for people.

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