Can you relate to these?

As of writing this blog post, I have been really enjoying the new releases in Google’s Gemini AI for both images (Nano Banana) and videos (Veo 3). I was inspired to continue from my previous blog post If programming languages were people (thoughts from a Generative AI) and try something new. The following is the conversation I had with ChatGPT and the resulting generated images and videos.

The prompt

Christopher:

I wrote this blog post https://mortimer.xyz/if-programming-languages-were-people-ai-thoughts/ in 2024, it was fun and (some) people liked it. This time I wanted to use Google Veo 3 to do something similar. “What AI thinks cloud platforms would be if they were personified”?

I first will use ChatGPT (you) to generate the prompts for the videos and then pass that to Google Veo3.

Can you write a short script for each of these to generate the 8 second videos

The responses

ChatGPT:

Thanks for sharing your blog post—from …

This is a great fit for Veo. Short, snappy, visually symbolic, and fun. For each 8-second clip, Veo prompts work best when they’re compact, descriptive, and directive, almost like “scene notes”.

Here’s a draft script for each of your three “cloud humans”:

The following video prompts were generated by ChatGPT, and videos were generated with Google Veo 3.

AWS - The Swiss Army Person

A human shaped like a Swiss Army multitool in a bright workshop. Wearing a rugged jacket with endless orange and black gadgets and attachments. Tools unfold rapidly from arms and shoulders, sparks flying as gears click. Camera zooms in on many hands juggling tools, then pulls back to reveal a cluttered, overwhelming workspace. Ambient audio of clanking metal and machinery hum.

My take from personal experience

AWS, although extremely capable, can seem complex. To get from vanilla to a working solution with correct IAM isn’t easy. I was once forced to sign up for developer support on an AWS account to get passed an error just to be told I did nothing wrong, my IAM was correct and it was an “internal” issue that has been resolved (of course I asked for a refund for the developer support and they said yes, I can’t fault the support team at all).

The names of the services, the shear number of them with many providing overlapping solutions.

I definitely feel the:

pulls back to reveal a cluttered, overwhelming workspace

Azure - The Polished Corporate Networker

A corporate professional in a sleek blue suit, standing in a futuristic glass office. Blue holographic network diagrams float around them as they connect glowing threads between icons. They pause to check a floating Outlook email window, then smoothly return to connecting nodes. Camera slowly circles around. Soft background lounge music, occasional email notification chime. Color theme: Azure blue and silver glow.

My take from personal experience

Azure is usually used when at work. It can sometimes feel forced upon you because, well, your enterprise IT team already supports Microsoft Windows and M365, and probably already has a great relationship with Microsoft. Azure is chosen as the cloud and it focuses on being appealing to large enterprises.

I chuckled when the AI titled it:

Corporate Networker

Google Cloud - The Data-Savvy Friend

A cheerful person in colorful casual clothes, sitting at a cafe table. Bright holographic charts and icons in Google’s red, yellow, green, and blue colors hover around them. They swipe through graphs with ease, wink at the camera, and slide a glowing chart to someone nearby. Camera pans close to their friendly face, then tilts up to show vibrant floating data visuals. Cafe ambience with light upbeat tones and a soft chime.

My take from personal experience

GCP feels the most approachable and can be more enjoyable (with the fair share of IAM pain). The terminology around “projects” seems to make sense to how you normally separate work. You can get a solution up in GCP quickly from vanilla. The fact the AI focuses on data-savvy may be because GCP has BigQuery which is a great serverless database if you have big data solutions to tackle.

My favourite line form the AI generated prompt:

wink at the camera, and slide a glowing chart to someone nearby