Comment by johnfn
2 days ago
“Setting up playwright” is about two sentences of a prompt to Claude. I know this because I’ve done it many times. The authors prompt in the post is only a few hundred words. (Most of the post is just LLM output.) I’m certain I could type that out in 5 minutes.
Do we really need another post where I time how long it takes to prompt Claude to create the Space Jam website?
its less than a few hundred words. The full total of what I typed into claude to get the first version is:
Initial prompt:
> I am giving you:
> 1. A full screenshot of the Space Jam 1996 landing page (screenshot.png)
> 2. A directory of raw image assets extracted from the original site (files/)
> Your job is to recreate the landing page as faithfully as possible, matching the screenshot exactly.
> Use the webapp-testing skill. Take screenshots and compare against the original. <required>You must be pixel perfect.</required>
plan response:
> they should all go to tilework.tech
> exact screenshot dimensions
which is 75 words
> But which takes longer: learning all of web dev to code the site, or learning to tell Claude to doff pixels?
As a developer, I naturally prefer the former over the latter, as this becomes general programming knowledge that I can benefit from in later projects.
BTW one of the creators of the Space Jam Website left a comment on the blog post: " Sebastien Derenoncourt 20m
I must say as a person who worked on that original website, I am confused why you needed claude to do so much basic HTML/css we didn't even use tons of complex CSS until much later in time... "
If we both agree that prompting is net positive on time, I think we’re in agreement. You are trying to move the discussion to some sort of philosophical point about knowledge gain and subjective experience, but that is definitely not what I was going for.
I do not try to move anything, if you read my initial post.
And after I have seen the final result coming from Claude, which is linked now in the blog post, I must say, recreation not completed! A lot of things are missing, proper zoom behavior, window resize, correct center aligned positioning. So what's the point here anyway?
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