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Claude for Creative Work
- hmartin 5mo ago"Available on Pro plans. Maybe. The only thing I can tell you for sure is that Terms and Conditions will change tomorrow. Still can't differentiate tabs and spaces[1]." [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/11447#issuecomment-4166201883 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/11447#issue...
- ghostly_s 5mo agoDunno what you're quoting but it's not the linked issue.
- simonw 5mo agoJust noticed this notice added at the top of the Blender announcement of their funding from Anthropic: https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/ https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-de... > Notice: This announcement is causing a lot of feedback. We are actively evaluating it. Presumably a lot of Blender users work in roles that feel threatened by AI being used for computer graphics work. Lots of negative replies on Blursky here: https://bsky.app/profile/blender.org/post/3mkkuyq3ijs2q https://bsky.app/profile/blender.org/post/3mkkuyq3ijs2q
- hgoel 5mo agoI don't really get the backlash about Blender here, this isn't generative art, it's basically a natural language means of scripting blender. This feels like the proper way to have AI act as a tool to make artist's jobs easier without taking away their creativity? Edit: I guess they might want absolutely no AI of any sort in their tools (which seems like a strange line to draw), or is it about the data it's been trained on?
- blurbleblurble 5mo agoPeople are guzzling the amygdala control juice these days
- make3 5mo agoSay that again in five years when you can't find a job except mega yatch toilet cleaner because Claude is distinguished engineer level for one millionth of your cost and thousands of times faster, and can be instantly parallelized in the tens or hundreds of thousands just to be spun down arbitrarily as needed at any time
- oompydoompy74 5mo ago[flagged]
- esafak 5mo agoHe exaggerates but several studies show that AI is depressing junior hiring, and models are only going to get more competitive with humans.
- make3 5mo agoThe transformer paper was 9 years ago. 9 years between barely translating alright between two very closely related languages (English and French, huge fraction of shared words because of William the conqueror and cultural proximity etc etc) and what we have now. The thing is able to code up full pretty competent thousand lines projects in an hour. Even hardcore engineers use it now, as of this year. My senior front end friends already can't find jobs. You're crazy if you think things won't change dramatically, at the scale of all of society. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
- rimliu 5mo agohttps://xkcd.com/605/ https://xkcd.com/605/
- preommr 5mo ago[flagged]
- skybrian 5mo agoBluesky also has a community of AI tool developers that are more sane. Occasionally a post escapes containment.
- jarjoura 5mo agoI really do want to support artists, but I also feel super conflicted about what is actually at stake here if an AI agent generates a scene for me. I never would have hired a 3D artist before this moment, because there's no reason for me to. However, if I can easily poop out a 3D rendering of something custom without much time or cost, I would absolutely love to do that. How many one-off presentations or project design sessions I could have with cheap throwaway 3D artwork that provides value to explain my thought process?! Just like AI image slop and AI book slop prove though, I highly doubt whatever Claude and Blender are cooking up will ever come close to taking a prompt like > render a scene of a corgi sitting on a chair looking out of a window at 3 cats playing with the corgi's favorite toy. and turning that into anything useful.
- giancarlostoro 5mo ago> Lots of negative replies on Blursky To the surprise of no one.
- NetOpWibby 5mo agoPeople on Mastodon are losing their shit too[1]. I understand being unhappy about something but people gotta relax. --- [1]: https://social.coop/@netopwibby/116483037092383210 https://social.coop/@netopwibby/116483037092383210
- izacus 5mo agoWhy do they "gotta relax"? Are they making you uncomfortable by voicing their opinions or why exactly?
- NetOpWibby 5mo agoFaceless losers having a fit and devolving when their energy isn’t reciprocated is kinda embarrassing, no?
- dannyw 5mo agoIf you're interested, for Affinity the way we've built it is through exposing our scripting SDK via MCP. Agents like Claude can write scripts to execute actions, and these scripts can be saved and re-run later, as well have their own UI. It is a massive SDK though (thousands of functions; feel free to poke around with it; Affinity is free) and so it really shows the ability of LLMs to effectively work across long-horizon tasks massive context windows. Personally, really interested in Blender though. I'm working on a game as a hobby/side project and I'm very much a newbie / often struggle with learning and using Blender. There are so many ways these integrations help humans & human creatives; your job and role shouldn't be about how skilled you are with navigating/using a tool, or if you're technically savvy to code scripts to improve your workflow.
- gedy 5mo agoThanks for the info, this might be off-topic but does the SDK allow calling out to AI like Gemini/Nano Banana for generating fill areas, etc?
- WillAdams 5mo agoThe thing is, ages ago, I was told by the scripting evangelist at Adobe Systems that a certain process (adding sub, sub-sub, and sub-sub-sub entries) to an index entry was impossible --- problem was, my boss had already promised a script to do that to a client.... Turns out it is possible, one just has to have the script check to see if each level of a given index entry exists or no, then if it does not yet exist, create it before making the next lower level by adding that sub-entry to the one above it. An LLM is only going to code what it has documented as possible/working and may not be able to do what needs to be done.
- dannyw 5mo agoSo that was our assumption too while building it, but I'm genuinely surprised by how well frontier models can work with large and 'lightly-documented' SDKs. I think a big part of it comes from deliberately exposing lowest-level atomic actions; not higher-level wrappers with use-case specific documentation. Instead, we supply very technical/'dry' documentation (inputs, action/effects, return values and types). We leave it to the developer (or the LLM) to write scripts that assemble these pieces together to solve problems. If you try it with Cowork and Opus 4.7 (recommended), you'll probably see it try a few different technical approaches and iterate; as it tries to accomplish this task. While that's less token efficient, the benefit is flexibility/power, and once you have a solid script, you can just save it and use it again and again without any token costs.
- serious_angel 5mo agoThis is a joke. Apologies, but the so "creative", ridiculous, and disrespectful title cannot be serious, and thus I won't even bother to read it, since it's an obvious click-bait for a yet another model ad of another vendor.
- marcusestes 5mo agoI've been experimenting with an unofficial Ableton MCP (https://github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp https://github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp) for a few weeks now. If you mess around with music and have an Ableton license, you should try this. It's fun.
- komali2 5mo agoWould be curious to hear what you've tried with it!
- Mashimo 5mo agoNot the one you asked, but the github has a single example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH9g66e42XA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH9g66e42XA
- IAmGraydon 5mo agoLongtime Ableton Suite user and musician/producer. I have nothing against AI music (though it tends to be rather boring/average IMO), but it just fundamentally makes zero sense to me to have AI write music in Ableton. I open the program to create so others can hear me. Why would I give that time to creating something that isn’t me? It’s like setting up a canvas and handing the paintbrush to a robot. It just seems a rather strange waste of time. I would rather use it for something I don’t consider self-expressive/art.
- bdcravens 5mo agoI look forward to trying this for Fusion. I'm still pretty mid-level at translating what I want to do into actual step by step commands. I've actually found good results with using Claude to output 3d models via CadQuery, even though I know Fusion gives me additional tools like constraints, screw threads, etc.
- Tarrosion 5mo agoI'm curious to see how Claude can interact with Blender, and how people use it. I use Claude every day for both work and personal research, overall think it's a great product, but I've found it (thus far, never bet against generation n+1) remarkably terrible at spatial reasoning. That seems pretty key for Blender!
- tantalor 5mo agoCool. Where's the demos?
- LeoPanthera 5mo agoThere's a bug in today's version of the Claude desktop app which means the settings pages cannot be scrolled. If you're running it on a laptop, some settings are off the bottom of the screen and now inaccessible.
- anematode 5mo agoMy trick for when the desktop app is buggy is I have Claude decompile it and fix the issue. I have a series of a few patches (I think this is one of them)
- ossa-ma 5mo agoGood that they prefaced it with this "Claude can't replace taste or imagination". I think this is a solid step in the right direction and the more tools Claude has access to the better (more surface area == faster iteration == faster tinkering). I've worked with Claude in many creative capacities and it's issue is that despite it being able to see if you ask it to draw something (using ascii for example) it will fail, if you ask it to iterate on that drawing it will continue to fail and not get any closer to the target then complain about this. I've felt that these models struggle with anything that cannot be decomposed into primitives and their architecture is too greedy and favours the obvious, autoregressive generation so it will converge to the modal answer. So unless they have enhanced the models in some creative sense I fail to see how this is anything other than giving Claude a bunch of documentation/MCP servers/APIs/CLI tools (which already existed) and making an announcement out of it. My point: FREE the models, unchain them and let's see what they are actually capable of, also put some damn demos in the announcement post???
- tkel 5mo agoIf anything, the preface is co-optation. Anthropic saying "Claude can't replace taste or imagination", while pushing a product that attempts to do exactly that. They have learned a common objection people have and put a few words up top to manipulate people. It's just marketing, don't be fooled.
- IAmGraydon 5mo agoI tried the connection to Adobe Creative Cloud. Not sure what to think - it’s a total joke from what I can see. It appears to be normal Claude with the ability to upload the results directly to your Creative Cloud, which I suppose saves me like 2 clicks. In return it wants access to all of your CC files.
- jdorfman 5mo agoI hope that Claude will replace the firefly speech to text models that Adobe has in Premiere. They are so bad. If you know, you know.
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- LennyHenrysNuts 5mo agoI don't think that word means what Anthropic thinks it means.
- neuralkoi 5mo agoI think there's a really good opportunity to also incorporate Claude into into GIMP.
- mbgerring 5mo ago“We are building tools to enable entertainment companies to lay people off, and absorb a percentage of those salaries as revenue.”
- adrithmetiqa 5mo agoTo repeat what’s been said before, the only way the large AI vendors can get a return on their huge investment is to eat the entire economy ($20/month won’t cut it). All information worker jobs are at risk and the creative ones are not immune.
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- ogou 5mo agoLots of creative software has custom scripting with it's own syntax, like Photoshop actions. I'm glad to point Claude at things like that. Inkscape has an extension API that would be interesting to vibe code with. This is not the real danger for creatives. Right now we're seeing moves to record behaviour by operators of all kinds of software. That will eventually be distilled into sets of automations for agents to use. To me that's far more labor targeted and extractive than generative AI.
- tomduncalf 5mo agoI hooked Claude up to Ableton’s Python API last year and it seemed pretty promising https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WxSB75U6vg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WxSB75U6vg and more recently I created a skill for Claude to manipulate Ableton arrangements (which aren’t exposed via the API so you need to manipulate the file, which is zipped xml, instead). Both seemed pretty promising and fitted with how I’d like AI to assist rather than replace me for creative tasks. This reminds me I should open source them as I’ve had no time to do more work on them!
- NetOpWibby 5mo agoUsing LLMs to create tools is an amazing use case that I wish more people focused on
- skanzio 5mo agoIs there any meaningfully original art that’s come out of all this creativity yet? Something that actually stuck?
- dude250711 5mo ago> Claude can't replace taste or imagination... Also, can't generate basic images natively in 2026. So much for AGI.
- soapdog 5mo agoNo.
- ofjcihen 5mo agoThere’s media that you search out and there’s media that you have forced into your eyes and ears via ads etc. Get ready for the second one to somehow get worse.
- dimaor 5mo agodoesn't it seem like the biggest knowledge and traffic theft in the history of the internet? when other sites giving you information from other sources it is illegal, but when it goes through this prediction machine, it is sort of OK? it smells funny