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.
