"Petty by design": dev explains his Opus 5.5 city demo was built out of spite
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-09-25
gandamuml explains why he built the realtime city demo this morning: critics called his previous work AI slop, not technically impressive, and not small enough for demo categories. So the whole effort was petty — and it got a sarcastic name to match.
Related event: Claude Opus 5.5 Generates 134KB Real-Time 3D City in One Prompt(8 posts)→
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