Jankifiers
Note: A brief but delightful tangent about Pete's early AI teaching tools.
Single-page HTML files that do silly text transformations, created by Pete and his students about two years ago. The workflow: write a prompt template, paste it into ChatGPT, get back an HTML file, open it in a browser.
Examples:
- Adjective Adder — "Delightful Mary had an enigmatic little lamb"
- Catifier (by Claire) — "Astonishing Whiskers had a tabby little..."
- Interleaver — alternates words from two input texts
- Alphabetifier — replaces each word with its letters spelled out
- Transcript Cleaner (by Dan) — cleans up Zoom transcripts
Dave was enchanted:
Dave: "Oh my god, Peter, this whole thing is so brilliant... You should make sure, can you send a note to me and Peter and Nick?"
Pete noted these were made by students with zero programming background — an early example of what's now called "vibe coding."
Mentioned by: Pete Kaminski
Context: Demo of early AI-assisted programming; the Catifier led to the What's a File story
Related
- Pete Kaminski — who created the project
- Claire — who wrote the Catifier
- Dan — who wrote the transcript cleaner
- What's a File — the story that arose from teaching Jankifiers