Watch Claude Control a WebApp (For Nerds Only) 🤓

Video Summary: I open Claude in Chrome, tell it to read the console, and it discovers a menu of commands for controlling my app (this is a super easy API I built that lets AI run the app). Then I say "make this sign 8 in by 8 in, red, and make it say hello" and it does it.

Here's the part I think is REALLY interesting.

The save files are just simple, readable JSON. You can just read understand what it says. Which means the AI doesn't even need the application to create something. You give it an example save file and tell it what you want. It writes the file directly without the UI. So it could create thousands if you wanted it to.

So....

The application becomes just a review tool. You use it to look at what the AI made and tweak it if you want. The AI does the production. The human review does the quality control (for now).

That flips our working model. We think about AI controlling the app, but if your data format is simple enough, the AI skips the app entirely and just writes the output. WAAAAAY more efficient.

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