Building the war room of my dreams

With Claude.AI not being good at design I asked Gemini for assistance. I won’t bore you with details, but the bloody thing f*cked up the design when I thought we had it locked in as I was asking for refinements and small changes.

Luckily the ‘almost perfect’ version of the design was available, so I simply made a screenshot and continued our conversation from there.

After much cursing and a few more iterations this is now the design:

Final result

The text will be done in vinyl stickers ordered from a webshop that allows for personalized vinyl text stickers. I haven’t specified the ‘secure access 07’ text.

And of course as I was creating the entry for my project Gemini’s idiocy struck again. At least I got the image of the final design saved now.

Gemini has a nasty habit of wanting to create interactive webpages when all I really want is an image that helps me understand the design. I guess that is because this one has been taught to create webpages, so it tends to fall back (and or hallucinate) that anything you ask it to do is aimed at creating a webpage instead of simply presenting content. Claude.AI isn’t as obsessed with webpage-design, but you do have to tell it to generate HTML output whenever you want to visualise the design ideas it has suggested.

While trying to get it to include the door to the room in a similar design things went of the rails again. There probably is a trick to keeping the thing on track, but that’s a future me problem.

Anyways … after a bit of cursing I managed to convince it to help me write a plan of attack as well as a shopping list. All I need to do now is wait for parts to arrive and get to work.

It would be sooo nice to have a laser cutter so I could add the little greeblies (sp?) without having to scour the web for parts that may or may not be any good.

This is always the hardest part of any project, isn’t it ?