The author discusses their heavy use of Claude’s Artifacts feature, highlighting its usefulness in quickly spinning up interactive applications to prototype or solve problems. They share various examples of artifacts they’ve built, such as a QR code decoder and a photo camera settings simulator. One unique artifact involved generating a web page that records and sends audio to the OpenAI API. The author expresses some frustration at the limitations of Claude’s artifacts, such as the inability to make API calls. They hint at creating their own artifacts alternative. Despite this, the author praises the speed and ease of building tools with Artifacts.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/