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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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Re: I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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Post by micromacrofoot »

I wouldn't call it entirely defeated, it got maybe 90% of the way there. Before LLMs you couldn't get 50% of the way there in an automated way.

> What he produces

I feel like personifying LLMs more than they currently are is a mistake people make (though humans always do this), they're not entities, they don't know anything. If you treat them too human you might eventually fool yourself a little too much.

Re: I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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Post by turnsout »

sigseg1v wrote: post #19

Curious if you've tested something such as: - "First, calculate the orbital radius. To do this accurately, measure the average diameter of each planet, p, and the average distance from the center of the image to the outer edge of the planets, x, and calculate the orbital radius r = x - p" - "Next, write a unit test script that we will run that reads the rendered page and confirms that each planet is on the orbital ra…

Yes, this is a key step when working with an agent—if they're able to check their work, they can iterate pretty quickly. If you're in the loop, something is wrong.

That said, I love this project. haha

Re: I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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Post by aidos »

CharlesW wrote: post #11
throwaway314155 wrote: post #5

Somehow I suspect Claude Code (in an interactive session with trial, error, probing, critiquing, perusing, and all the other benefits you get) would do better. This example seems to assume Claude can do things in "one shot" (even the later attempts all seem to conceal information like it's a homework assignment). That's not how to successfully use LLM's for coding in my experience. It is however perhaps a good demons…

Using https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/plugins/... with style-supporting instructions and context would've improved the outcome as well.

Is the skill effectively just adding a little extra context here though? Doesn’t strike me as the sort of context that would improve the outcome.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

Re: I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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Post by Retric »

thecr0w wrote: post #10
999900000999 wrote: post #9

Space Jam website design as an LLM benchmark. This article is a bit negative. Claude gets close , it just can't get the order right which is something OP can manually fix. I prefer GitHub Copilot because it's cheaper and integrates with GitHub directly. I'll have times where it'll get it right, and times when I have to try 3 or 4 times.

ya, this is true. Another commenter also pointed out that my intention was to one-shot. I didn't really go too deeply into trying to try multiple iterations. This is also fairly contrived, you know? It's not a realistic limitation to rebuild HTML from a screenshot because of course if I have the website loaded I can just download the HTML.

It’s not unrealistic to want to revert to an early version of something you only have a screenshot of.

Re: I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

dreadnip wrote: post #15

Why involve an LLM in this? Just download the site?

Yeah, Internet Archive has lots of copies https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.spac... also

What's with the panicked pleas and need to preserve the site, assuming locally...?

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