I Built a Tiny YouTube Audience Simulator

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It is a fun, weird, very unfinished project that became possible because LLMs are now good enough to turn messy notes into structured artifacts fast. Creative work often breaks because the reasoning stays invisible. Even if audience simulation works, where is the line between "making better decisions" and optimizing systems against people too effectively?

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