claude is good at coding

Pleasantly surprised to find that Claude.ai, running the Sonnet 4.5 model, with just a free plan and a single prompt, created a usable UI for a timeline editor in html / javascript, when supplied with javascript helper functions copy-pasted along with the prompt - the initial commit is at

https://github.com/hn-88/openspace-scripts/commit/79ff8dfcea16d7df944d1675f8ec3c6b4b9f3bd8

Edit - Subsequent commits were needed to make it actually functional, connect to OpenSpace, etc. using code copied from Jeff Nee,

https://github.com/hn-88/openspace-scripts/blob/main/OpenSpace-ConstellationsTonight_draft/00-readme.txt

The "finished product" is here,

https://github.com/hn-88/openspace-scripts/tree/main/OpenSpace-Keyframe-Timeline-editor