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Anthropic recently added a new feature to Claude: Artifacts, a “dedicated window to instantly see, iterate, and build on the work you create with Claude” and I immedeately felt that this will be a game-changer. It’s rough, but you can literally build a simple app by describing what you want on the left side, and Claude will write the code and run it on the right side. That’s it.

An artifact can be a document, a visualization, or a simple app or game. If Claude generates code, it will run in the side panel automatically and can be published online with a single click.

Large Language Models are pretty good at implementing the kinds of things that developers do all day every day because there is plenty of representative data in its training set. To see how good Claude is at doing something a little different, I gave it an off-the-wall example to see how well it adapts. I decided to try Pong, with three paddles. I started out with a simple prompt:

It’s kinda janky, but it’s getting closer. Honestly, I really love the way the paddles move along with the mouse. It is intuitive and makes it quite simple to control three paddles with one trackpad. The biggest issue is that the paddles are, strangely, facing the wrong direction. So I provided some more feedback:

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