If it bothers you, which is a good sign, consider identifying for yourself the key things that make his style and use those in your work.

As a bonus you can evolve some things and make it less derivative, this is how people create own style.

Styles cannot be plagiarized.

That's pretty clever. They're quite good on their own, but people do use this technique. Patrick McKenzie (patio11 here) says that people do use his voice to invoke assistance with corporations. Personally, I often ask for a UI to learn or (with ChatGPT) a "zine" or "infographic", both of which deliver tremendous utility. They'll have the classic errors of some things being dislocated from where they should be but it's really still quite good.

It's not plagarism, Ciechanowski didn't invent this presentation form. His presentations are examples of "active essays", a term coined by Alan Kay no later than 2006.

(I don't know whether Alan invented the concept itself, I'm not aware of him claiming that)

See: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5350160

No, plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as your own. If they're useful, share them.

It's not plagiarism at all to openly do something new in the style of someone else, though it would be polite to provide a little credit if you feel like someone could mistake yours for theirs.

Honestly, I wouldn't call it plagiarism. You're using the prompt for personal purposes, to better understand the material. If you were copying his text and passing it off as your own, then yeah, that would be not cool. But using his approach with interactive visualizations as a source of inspiration for your own learning materials is fine. If you ever decide to put it out in the open, just mention that you took inspiration from his style and include a link to his work.

I was just about to say that :)

AI definitely lowers the cost of building these, but I think Ciechanowski's real contribution is upstream of the code. Knowing what to visualize and how to make interaction teach something rather than just look impressive is the rare part

how do you explain moon phases with a disk? also how would a thin disk have enough mass to pull water from the earth?

Almost 20 months since the last post

Friend of a friend'a got a Substack with 50k followers at $10/month as a side gig and I'm like, wait what?