As the saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. In my case, it was a tagine, staple of Middle-Eastern cooking, rather than a pudding that was being eaten. And the proof in question was whether a Claude-generated recipe actually worked.
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A personalized recipe generator
Fed up with following the same old recipes? Me too. After stewing on the issue for a while, I decided to put together an appetizing prompt, and have Claude rustle up a personalized recipe generator app for me. In my mind’s eye, I could picture the tasty new dishes I would soon be preparing using my favorite techniques. So, Claude, let’s get cooking…
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Vibe-coding with Claude: A Lunar Alignment Calculator
I recently built a Solar Alignment Calculator, with the (considerable) help of Claude. Could “we” pull off a similar trick, a Lunar Alignment Calculator, for predicting the alignment of moonsets with terrestrial landmarks? And, would it take into account all those phases the moon passes through each month?
This one could be complicated!
Flushed with the success of my first vibe-coding experience — a personalized app for calculating when the sun would set behind a local point of interest — my thoughts turned to an obvious extension: an analogous app for determining when the moon would set at a specific point on the horizon.
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Claude Mythos Preview: The world confronts a superhuman machine
[Editor’s Note: The following is an example of a post we propose, in future, to keep in a private section of the site, since it is an opinion piece, rather than a description of how an AI tool has been used in practice. We are posting it publicly for a limited time to allow club members to consider whether they support use of a private, subscriber-only, section of the site for articles such as this.]
It may not be faster than a speeding bullet, nor able to jump over tall buildings, but Anthropic’s latest large language model, Claude Mythos, is superhuman in a domain that could pose an existential risk to humans: computer hacking.
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Vibe coding with Claude: An effective-focal-length calculator
Modern camera sensors deliver very high resolution images, often 40-60 megapixels, and sometimes even higher. So, digital zooming, that is cropping images to make the subject larger, is increasingly popular. The cropped image usually has plenty of pixels, so is still of high resolution.
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Designing a planting scheme for a front-yard border, using Claude
Large language models seem to be pretty good at a lot of things. But, do they have green fingers, and can they find their way around a garden center?
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A Solar Alignment Calculator
I recently used Claude, Anthropic’s large language model (LLM) to build a personalized app to help me plan future photographic projects. I was delighted with how it went.
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