🚨 9 HOURS + 4M CLAUDE TOKENS = A FULL WEBGPU SNOW ENGINE

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Snowflow

A real-time procedural snow rendering demo built with WebGPU, Babylon.js and hand-written WGSL. Features GPU-generated terrain, snow deformation, procedural characters, cloth, surf wakes, water spe...

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The video likely performed well due to its impressive visual demonstration of a complex technical achievement (a full WebGPU snow engine) created with AI, combined with a clear and concise explanation of the process and a direct link to the project's repository.

Summary

A developer spent 9 hours and 4 million Claude tokens to create "Snowflow," a browser-based Web GPU demo featuring realistic snow physics and terrain deformation. This project, which evolved from a technical design document rather than a prompt, showcases the increasing importance of detailed specifications in AI-driven development.

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1Introduction of Snowflow and its creation process
2Explanation of the technical details and resources used
3Comparison to previous plugin versions
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🚨 9 HOURS + 4M CLAUDE TOKENS = A FULL WEBGPU SNOW ENGINE SNOWFLOW is a browser demo with persistent deformable snow, waterbending spells that reshape terrain, and snow-surfing with dynamic wakes. Ships with: • Custom snow shaders (subsurface scattering, glints, compression) • 90 FPS targets, zero allocations in the render loop • Cloth, particles, atmospheric lighting The crazy part: it started with a full technical design document, not a vague prompt. Visual quality was the product. 👉 https://github.com/Noniv/snowflow_demo Who’s writing specs instead of prompts today? Drop a 🔥

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The video showcases a demo called "Snowflow," which is a browser-based Web GPU application demonstrating advanced snow physics and terrain deformation. The creator mentions it was built using 9 hours of work and 4 million Claude tokens, and that it was previously a plugin for Unreal Engine.

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https://github.com/Noniv/snowflow_demo

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🚨 9 HOURS + 4M CLAUDE TOKENS = A FULL WEBGPU SNOW ENGINE WHAT'S UP, GUYS? https://github.com/Noniv/snowflow_demo SO THIS DEVELOPER SPENT NINE HOURS AND 4 MILLION CLAUDE OPUS 5 TOKENS, THIS. IT'S CALLED SNOW FLOW. BROWSER BASED WEB GPU. AND SO HE DIDN'T PROMPT THIS, THIS WAS A FULL TECHNICAL DESIGN SO HE BASICALLY MADE AN, UH, AN IMPLEMENTATION BRIEF AND HAD FED IT TO, UH, CLAWED AND WHAT IS ACTUALLY CRAZY. THIS IS INSANE. THIS USED TO BE A PLUGIN THE UNREAL ENGINES, STORE, IF YOU GUYS REMEMBER THAT. BUT, UM, CRAZY BECAUSE WE'RE REACHING A POINT WHERE QUALITY OF SPECIFICATION MATTERS MORE THAN THE QUALITY OF THE CODE

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What's up, guys? So this developer spent nine hours and 4 million Claude Opus 5 tokens. He built this. It's called Snowflow. It's in a browser-based Web GPU demo. And so he didn't prompt this, this was a full technical design document. So he basically made an, uh, an implementation brief and had fed it to, uh, clawed and what is actually crazy. This is insane. This used to be a plugin on the Unreal Engine store, if you guys remember that. But, um, this is just crazy because we're reaching a point where quality of specification matters more than the quality of the code.