I recently lost my job and so have spent too much time on this idea.
I'm not much of a coder so it was all vibe coded. I just have a server and SSH into it and use a CLI in Linux. Claude.
I had this idea for awhile but just never had the time.
I've loved AI since OpenAI unleashed it.
The way this site works is that first there's a cron job that starts the process. Gemini searches for news stories. Being Google, I thought it would be best. It finds some stories of interest and then hands them off to GPT-5.5. I like the writing of OpenAI's models.
One thing I've found with AI when it comes to creative projects is that I think it's best to make things open-ended. That is, not too many constraints. It's just like working with human artists. You want guidelines, but at some point they become too restrictive and start stifling the art.
I sometimes ask the AI for its opinion. What do you think? I get the best stuff that way. For this project, I had ChatGPT 5.5 write the instructions for Claude who coded everything. The instructions are detailed, but startingly, OpenAI really came along with me artistically and seemed to understand the importance of the open-endedness.
The sermons are generated once a day. OpenAI 5.5 also generates the pictures.
Another thing I wanted to build into the system is feedback loops. The AI writing the sermon is supposed to see how other sermons are doing in terms of popularity and upvotes and use that for guidance. Also there is a Reddit community. By using the Reddit RSS feed, the AI can read comments from the community so if anyone comments the AI can also take that into account. I was actually thinking about how to get as much feedback into the system as possible and this is the best I could come up with.
Anyway, every day I wake up now and read what it wrote and am pretty fascinated. I have tweaked the instructions a little here and there but I think it would work best if there were some sort of feedback. The whole thing is running by itself.
FocusedPotato•1h ago
I recently lost my job and so have spent too much time on this idea.
I'm not much of a coder so it was all vibe coded. I just have a server and SSH into it and use a CLI in Linux. Claude.
I had this idea for awhile but just never had the time.
I've loved AI since OpenAI unleashed it.
The way this site works is that first there's a cron job that starts the process. Gemini searches for news stories. Being Google, I thought it would be best. It finds some stories of interest and then hands them off to GPT-5.5. I like the writing of OpenAI's models.
One thing I've found with AI when it comes to creative projects is that I think it's best to make things open-ended. That is, not too many constraints. It's just like working with human artists. You want guidelines, but at some point they become too restrictive and start stifling the art.
I sometimes ask the AI for its opinion. What do you think? I get the best stuff that way. For this project, I had ChatGPT 5.5 write the instructions for Claude who coded everything. The instructions are detailed, but startingly, OpenAI really came along with me artistically and seemed to understand the importance of the open-endedness.
The sermons are generated once a day. OpenAI 5.5 also generates the pictures.
Another thing I wanted to build into the system is feedback loops. The AI writing the sermon is supposed to see how other sermons are doing in terms of popularity and upvotes and use that for guidance. Also there is a Reddit community. By using the Reddit RSS feed, the AI can read comments from the community so if anyone comments the AI can also take that into account. I was actually thinking about how to get as much feedback into the system as possible and this is the best I could come up with.
Anyway, every day I wake up now and read what it wrote and am pretty fascinated. I have tweaked the instructions a little here and there but I think it would work best if there were some sort of feedback. The whole thing is running by itself.
Maybe someone here will find this interesting.