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smerrill25

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spencer@kettio.com

founder, creator, and AI advisor

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smerrill25··on "How can we trust your system"
hey author of the post here --

been working with a lot of companies in simulating audiences. would love any feedback/ideas on prompting that are outside of the box.

best! trying to make it as accurate as I can!

smerrill25··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
I remember late into my master's degree in a ethic's class about AI we had discussed the possibilities of the butterfly effect of not letting it transpire. He had given us a tricky word, and I don't remember what it was, but he asked us to create a definition for it.

I offered up an answer to my class, giving a reasonable enough answer for both my professor & colleagues to agree; however,

Another girl argued against me saying that she didn't believe it; and that she had a better one.

>granted she was significantly older

I said, "Why don't you believe it?"

"Let me ask chatgpt what I think, so I can come up with a clearer answer." She said.

"You can't use chatgpt to do that! This is about what you think, not about what chatGPT thinks."

"Yea," the professor interjected, "no chatGPT. You have to think for yourself y'know."

She got really quiet after that and offered a subpar answer against mine. And we continued class using my definition of the word.

smerrill25··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
I can't stand this at all. People are becoming more and more sheepish. They don't know when things are harder than they actually are and the dunning-kruger effect is happening at a pace unbeknownst to our culture on nearly all surfaces.
smerrill25··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Curious to hear the thoughts on the model once it hits claude code :)
smerrill25··on Image Diffusion Models Exhibit Emergent Temporal Propagation in Videos
Hey, do you know how you figured out about this information? I would be super curious to keep track of current ad-hoc ways of pushing older models to do cooler things. LMK
smerrill25··on Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
Created a tool you can try out!! sorry to self-plug but I launch on Product Hunt next week that lets you do this:)

www.brandimagegen.com

if you want a premium account to try out, you can find my email in my bio!!

smerrill25··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
Created a new image generation tool because I believe creativity is a process of trial and error! So multiple models, infinite modality == expansive creativity. :)

https://brandimagegen.com/

smerrill25··on GenAI Image Editing Showdown
Hey everyone! If you need a place to go test image models out against one another, please go to BrandImageGen .com:) Would love to see some signups as we have a pretty nice free tier:)
smerrill25··on GenAI Image Editing Showdown
Hey Addend! If you sign up brandimagegen . com, chatGPT image models create graphics w/ transparent backgrounds. You can also just rm backgrounds with my background remover tool.

I am biased on this since I built it and it officially launches on Friday 10/31

smerrill25··on Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown
As someone who is currently building my first iOS app, I am extremely happy to have this. This will be much nicer doing my animation documentation.
smerrill25··on Claude Opus 4.1
waiting for this, too.
smerrill25··on FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing
I believe you can buy licensing? But def not the same as 'Open Weights..'
smerrill25··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
Do you think you use more than just 200$ worth of API credits in a month? I've used both Claude Code and Cursor, and I find myself liking the Terminal CLI, but the price is much more than 20$ per month for me.