A re-creation of the classic Windows 3D "Pipes" screensaver, written entirely by Claude 3.5 Sonnet over many iterations!
(full disclosure - I work at Anthropic)
This was an experiment to try to generate a medium sized (240 line) program without writing a single line of code myself, only with prompting.
I had the best luck starting simple and gradually adding features (including starting 2D). Claude was able to debug its code about 2/3 of the time when it created errors, and 1/3 of the time I had to open up the code and help it more explicitly.
A re-creation of the classic Windows 3D "Pipes" screensaver, written entirely by Claude 3.5 Sonnet over many iterations!
(full disclosure - I work at Anthropic)
This was an experiment to try to generate a medium sized (240 line) program without writing a single line of code myself, only with prompting.
I had the best luck starting simple and gradually adding features (including starting 2D). Claude was able to debug its code about 2/3 of the time when it created errors, and 1/3 of the time I had to open up the code and help it more explicitly.
I documented some of my prompts and the code here: https://github.com/eschluntz/pipes-screensaver/blob/main/REA...