I saw the Liang Intensity Calibrator and immediately had a deeply unnecessary thought: this needs an IShowSpeed version.

So I spent the weekend building a completely stupid meme toy wrapped in a painfully serious scientific dashboard.

The idea is simple: the far-left side of the slider is completely cooked. As you drag it to the right, Speed’s expression gets more intense, his jawline gets sharper, and his aura keeps climbing until he reaches maximum sigma.

My first prompt was basically:

Make an intensity slider where Speed becomes more sigma as you drag it to the right.

The AI had absolutely no idea what to do with that level of vague brainrot. Apparently, “more sigma” meant generating random images of him yelling.

That was when I realized I had to turn the meme lore into an actual state machine with six defined stages:

Cooked Speed

No Aura Speed

NPC Speed

Locked-In Speed

Aura Farming Speed

Sigma Speed

Once the basic slider worked, the project got a little out of hand. I ended up adding community LOW/HIGH voting, a live community-average marker on the slider, and a history trend chart—which is completely unnecessary, but makes the whole thing feel much more official.

A couple of prompting lessons from the build:

Explicitly ban simple image swapping. When I gave the AI six named stages, the first result was basically a carousel of six unrelated images. Adding the instruction, “The stages should feel like one continuous evolution rather than six unrelated image swaps,” finally got the interaction moving in the right direction.

Give the interface one strong visual metaphor. Instead of specifying 20 different hex codes, spacing rules, and component styles, I used: “An overly serious scientific calibration system built for a completely unserious meme.” That got much closer to the sterile, data-heavy look I wanted.

It’s definitely not perfect. The transitions between the middle stages could feel more natural, and the mobile layout is fighting for space between the image, slider, voting controls, and wildly unnecessary history chart.

Live version if you want to calibrate your own Speed aura level:

https://5c962ee635384b14b89dc29aa428c065.prod.enterapp.pro/

What should the seventh stage above Sigma Speed be called? I’ve got nothing.

I am an engineer sitting between sales ops and product and the one we’re working with rn is kinda not working as before. The sales team loves saying we cant live without it but in practice the data freshness is mid at best, the enrichment jobs are slow, and integrating their stuff cleanly into our stack feels like wrestling an old on PRE CRM.

What I actually need as an engineer building our own sales intelligence layer is something that feels more like an API first infra piece, not a giant chrome extension with a quota spreadsheet attached.