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jacoBOOian 👻

@bmispelon do I have to build a little app for this, lol?

Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺

@jacob @bmispelon I’m sure @simon could knock you one up with an AI while he's walking the dog

Simon Willison

@carlton @jacob @bmispelon funnily enough I actually DID get an LLM to write one of those a few months ago - https://tools.simonwillison.net/timezones#1730360460000,America/Los_Angeles - I haven't done enough QA on it to say if it's actually trustworthy or not though

Simon Willison

@carlton @jacob @bmispelon here's the Claude transcript I used to build it https://gist.github.com/simonw/543e13e268d90f26258fbb36d3e7c942

jacoBOOian 👻

@simon @carlton @bmispelon hahaha awesome. I might iterate on this some -- this is _almost_ what I want, probably to the point that I can get Claude the rest of the way pretty easily. (I want to build a link that's like `example.com/wednesday/utc-6pm` that always shows what "next wednesday at 6pm utc" means)

jacoBOOian 👻

@simon @carlton @bmispelon jfc I think it did it correctly on the first try

Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺

@jacob @simon @bmispelon wonder it there’s a market for a Claude wrapper that has “don’t use React” in the system prompt?

Simon Willison

@jacob @carlton @bmispelon yes please do! I'd love to have a version of this that I can trust

Simon Willison

@jacob @carlton @bmispelon the neat thing about using a #fragment or even a ?query URL for it is you can drop it on static hosting somewhere and never think about it again

All my https://tools.simonwillison.net things are running on GitHub Pages

Simon Willison

@carlton @jacob @bmispelon i'm pretty confident that what Claude Artifacts does will be a commodity within six months, the hard bit is solving sandboxing but that's not impossibly difficult...