Despite working with them extensively for the past 18 months or so, our “little robot” friends continue to blow me away with their capabilities.
Take this: the other day I asked Claude opus 3 to create an N-body simulation example from scratch, in HTML + JavaScript, complete with the ability to record videos.
Here’s the result, after some very minor tweaks of the code produced by Claude, code that pretty much worked “out of the box”.
The code is simple, reasonably clean and elegant, and it works. As to what I think of our little robot friends’ ability to take a brief, casual description of such an application and produce working code on demand… What can I say? There’s an expression that I’ve been overusing lately, but it still feels the most appropriate reaction: Welcome to the future.