Introducing 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧.website

𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧 is a tool that translates images into structured, usable prompts. It doesn’t invent. It doesn’t embellish. It looks closely, then describes what it sees in a way machines—and humans—can actually work with.

Use it as a tool to understand how AI deconstructs an image. Use it for meta-tagging content. Use it to power your AI generated images and videos. Use it generate alt text for accessibility (like I did with the attached images). Let's make the internet inclusive like that.

The interesting part tho, is 𝘩𝘰𝘸 it was made.

I’m not a programmer. But I’m also not new to code. I learned to program on a Commodore 64. Later, I built interactive systems using Lingo in MacroMind Director. Over time, my career moved into art direction and creative direction, and I relied on developers to execute the systems I imagined.

That shift didn’t erase my understanding of code but it did set it on a backburner.

With 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧, that backburner went from low to medium-high. Using 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲'𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 paired with 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 and 𝗢𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝟰.𝟱, I could describe behavior, intent, edge cases, and structure in plain language—and have the system generate working code in response. I reviewed it. I questioned it. I broke it. I fixed it. I pushed it to Git. The important part: 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵. The code was clean, legible (thanks to annotations), and aligned with how I think about systems.

This is 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨. Coined by Andrej Karpathy on Feb 6th 2025, as a way to characterize a loose interplay between coder and LLM. Love or hate the term, it synthesizes the phenomenon fairly well. And that phenomenon has blown up and found its stride since the introduction of 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰'𝘀 𝗢𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝟰.𝟱 in November of 2025. It’s not about skipping rigor. It’s about collapsing the distance between an idea and a prototype. Between creative intent and functional software. Between someone who understands systems and someone who traditionally needed assistance to build them.

𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧 exists because the distance between idea and execution is now short enough to hop over. This isn’t a replacement for developers. It’s not “no-code.” It’s closer to sketching with structure. Talking through a system and watching it take form—then shaping it with taste, judgment, and iteration.

For creatives, designers, and directors who’ve always lived close to code but not inside it, this changes what’s possible. Not someday. Now.

𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧 is live at http://depict.website/ Curious to hear what you see in it.