🚀 I’ve Created a Small Cookie Clicker Clone In 20 minutes With Claude.io

And I also created a Snake clone like the one from OpenAI o1. You don’t need to be a developer. You don’t need to mess with files and webs. An experiment that teaches how to deal with developers.

David Rodenas PhD
28 min readSep 14, 2024
«The o1 snake trying to take over the Claude.ai Space game» Prompted and edited by the author.

And no. For now, I don’t think that LLMs can replace developers. But they can train POs and PMs, so they understand how developers can creatively misinterpret and fail to fulfill their requirements.

And yes, this clone actually works, and I will share with you this game, so you can play. Ok, it is limited, but it has the essence of these kinds of games that hook you for some time and keep you playing.

Screenshot of the game coded by Claude.io. Pretty, right?

Furthermore: Because of the recent launch and hype of the OpenAI o1, and its demo showcasing the creation of a Snake clone, I tried to do the same with Claude. The results are surprising, more at the end.

Since the GitHub copilot was launched in June 2021, —yes, three years ago, — we know that LLMs can create code, and we can use it, or any other LLM like…

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David Rodenas PhD

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