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[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

I've often been building single-use apps with Claude Artifacts when I'm helping my children learn. For example here's one on visualizing fractions https://t.co/TTkuDKbMnU

Here are some things I've learned.

Speed of creation

My kids are young, so any single activity might last only say 15 minutes. The fact that I can create an app in a minute or two, use it for one session, and then forget about it is a big deal. If it took even 5 minutes to create an app it would be much less useful.

It would take me much longer, maybe an hour or two, to make one of these apps on my own. So I would never have done this pre-AI.

Shittiness of app stores

What's more surprising is that it is far easier to create an app on-demand than searching for an app in the app store that will do what I'm looking for. Searching for kids' learning apps is typically a nails-on-chalkboard painful experience because 95% of them are addictive garbage. And even if I find something usable, it can't match the fact that I can tell Claude what I want.

Sometimes we don't notice how awful certain technologies are from a user perspective until we get to experience the alternative!

Overall I think the "single use app" or "throwaway app" paradigm is really powerful. It's like shell scripts but for non-programmers. I'm curious if others have been building these.

Why use apps?

Of course you don't need an app to learn fractions (or anything else), but the ability to use them has made a material difference. Some of the main benefits:
– being able to visualize concepts (far better and faster than I can by drawing)
– slight gamification to make it more fun
– repetition to teach skills (for instance, to teach how to tell time I made a random clock face generator and my kid and I played with it).

Limitations

Claude's lack of Internet access (both when building the app and for the app itself when it is executing) is seriously annoying and really limits what kinds of apps you can build. I'm sure there are startups who offer less restricted versions of the same functionality but I haven't looked into them. If you have recommendations please leave a comment.

[Dominik Herrmann @herdom]

What a great way of presenting - without any slides! The writing advice is also good. May influence what I tell students in the future.

[Ninji (has moved) @_Ninji]

just witnessed a beer being opened using an Apple charger and my life will never be the same again

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

These 'Beach Animals' were created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. The kinetic structures walk on their own and get all their energy from the wind.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Danger of Minimalist Design

(& the death of detail)

A short thread...

[Kulturkonsorten (offline) @kulturkonsorten]

🎄

[Sarah K @sarakastisch]

Danke an den kleinen AT-AT, der in meinem Bad jeden Tag die Heizung trägt!

[neural net guesses memes @ResNeXtGuesser]

Image prediction: ping-pong ball
Confidence: 99.99%
Submission by @Minish900

[Eric Hittinger @ElephantEating]

Currently reviewing a paper for a French-language journal and I just learned that the French call a "pie chart" a "camembert". Now I want to know what pie charts are called in other languages so we can make a delicious chart of the results.

[Richard Campbell @richcampbell]

Debugging Tactics...

[Mario Fusco @mariofusco]

When you replace your non-working code with something copied from StackOverflow

[JayJay @JulianJacobi]

Diese Mehrfachsteckdose ist eine Chronologie des Versagens.

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

Plato’s dog. https://t.co/j4l8PDMWax

[Rafal Klajn @rafalklajn]

What happens is you accidentally leave a manuscript in a three-years-old’s room...

[[email protected] @aloria]

Is anyone insterested in helping out with @sec_reactions? I haven’t had a lot of time to work on it and am not quite ready to see it die.

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

every linux networking tool I know
(PDF poster: https://t.co/w4tNZIfqKk)

[Le Poutine De Thallanor @thallanor]

How I spent last night. The excitement never ends, folks.

[Dave @sheepfilms]

If baguettes could move, how would they move? Give your reasoning pls

[yan @bcrypt]

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