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That was my thought, too. If I ever get one myself, I’m likely to forget about the touch feature and just keep using the trackpad and keyboard.

But whenever my adult daughter shows my six-year-old grandson something on her Macbook, he immediately tries touching the screen and is confused when it doesn’t respond. He doesn’t have any devices of his own yet, so his defaulting to touch is the result of very occasionally being allowed to use an adult’s smartphone or tablet.

The proofs themselves are far beyond me, but the first page of the Anthropic paper, at least, is much easier for me to follow than the OpenAI one.

Almost nothing.

The original idea to ask for clocks came from Claude itself. After Opus 5.5 was released, I asked it for ideas for interesting projects to try, and clocks was one of its suggestions. Some of the later prompts included suggested themes, but those came from Opus, too.

The only instructions that originated with me were striving for variety, making the page self-contained, randomizing the display sequence, and putting the clock names and explanations behind mouseovers/clicks. Even the controls at the top of the page were added by Opus on its own initiative.

That “cheapness” is because the designs are created programmatically in JavaScript, with no image files used.

A significant proportion of my Max subscription for this week. In the README, Claude estimates a total of about 15 million tokens.

I was interested in seeing how many different ideas Opus could come up with with minimal direction from me. I don’t plan to use any of those clocks myself.

Yes, I got carried away. It used a big chunk of my Max subscription tokens for this week.

Yes, I as noted at the top of the README, Claude wrote it all. Excerpts from my prompt to it: “Please compose a markdown file that I can put in the README.md for the repository explaining how this page was created and how it is structured (including how the images are generated).... Be clear that all of the coding and writing was done by Claude Opus 5.5.... Make the explanations plain and straightforward, with no boosting or bragging.”

Very nice! I particularly like that pi clock.

I agree that Claude did tend to repeat certain themes. If someone wanted to extend the gallery to the thousands of clocks while maintaining the variety, they would probably need to seed the model with some original ideas. (Whether those ideas could come from a model or would need human taste is an interesting question.)

Also, Claude’s realizations of some of its ideas are a bit rough. If I wanted to create a standalone widget for a clock I particularly liked, I would spend more time with Claude (or another model) refining and polishing it first.

Nevertheless, considering that nearly all the ideas came from Opus and all the graphics are created with pure code, I remain impressed with what it was able to do.

My impression is that the tourists are being guided along fixed routes in the limited areas of the country that are open to tourists. But there are long shots of towns and the countryside from trains and buses that can’t have been entirely staged. These are the glimpses of everyday life that I find fascinating.