BRAINHACK MONTREAL · UNCONFERENCE · 2026

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The butterflies, rainbows and unicorns of vibe coding ✨

Not everything about AI is butterflies and rainbows. But some of it is. 🦋 🌈 🦄

Ninad Aithal

blackpearl006.github.io/
neuroai-template-demo

THE STATUS QUO

A typical neuroimaging project

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Find data

Preprocess

Analyze

Publish & share

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Who actually sees it?

1 PDF among 40,363 on arXiv last month

THE PROBLEM — VISIBILITY

Getting your work seen is hard

arXiv got 40,363 submissions in September 2026.
Since October 1, arXiv takes at most 2 submissions per author per month.
In computer vision and ML, many NeurIPS and CVPR papers come with a project website.
Why not papers in Nature or Science Advances? Or from The Neuro and our hospitals?

💡 Your paper's figures are already great website material.

Sources: arXiv monthly submission statistics (arxiv.org/stats/monthly_submissions); F. Jones, "arXiv's new preprint submission cap divides opinion", Times Higher Education, 2 Oct 2026.

THE ORIGIN STORY

Meanwhile, one Saturday morning…

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Resets Tue 2:00 AM

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Resets on Tuesday. Burn, burn, burn. 🔥

THE INSIGHT

Research needs to be seen.

I had tokens to burn.

So I built a website template for neuro papers.

STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

It worked because the pieces already existed

NiiVue

A brain viewer that runs in the browser. Recent, stable and fast. It does the hard part.

Clarity template

A minimal, hackable research page by Shikun Liu. The design started there. Thank you!

My groundwork

Two earlier NiiVue sites, NeuroDataHub (Vue + Clarity) and web coursework. I knew enough to steer.

From scratch, this would have been bad. Adapting good tools made it good.

Built with Vite, React, Tailwind, Three.js and NiiVue.

THE DEMO

From a static figure to a brain you can rotate

Website demo: region table and 3D brain coloured by importance

Atlases: Brainnetome, Schaefer-400, AAL, Harvard-Oxford, Yeo, Glasser

HOW IT WORKS

Make it yours in three steps

Put your results in a CSV. One row per region: region,value. Often it's already in your supplement.
Give your agent the paper and AGENTS.md. Or edit the text files by hand. No code.
Push to GitHub. GitHub Pages puts it online.

✨ Key takeaway: Give it your paper → get a website.

Give it your paper. Get a website.

WHY THIS MATTERS

Why this is a good job for AI

No human data. Only processed results that are already published.
Low stakes. If a page breaks, nobody gets hurt.
No maintenance. It only has to stay online.
Without AI, I would not have built this. I'd have minded my own business.

LET'S DISCUSS

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Some of it is butterflies and rainbows.

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Let's talk

Where has AI been plainly good for you?
What stops you from putting your paper on a website?
Does it matter if nobody maintains code like this?
Could you tell these slides were made with AI?

Website

Code on GitHub

Backup slides

FOR CLINICIANS

Region-level results, the way clinicians think

Every region has a name, a value and a place in 3D.
Sort the table, then find the same region on the brain.
Precision-medicine results become easier to inspect and to discuss.

This deck has an evil twin

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Same words, same slides. One looks like a person made it. One looks like every AI deck you've seen this year.