I Asked Claude to Make 5 Useful Apps. Here’s How It Went.
Can Claude help a code-illiterate person like me create something that works?
In the middle of 2023, I got my Bing’s and ChatGPT’s hands dirty to create an app of questionable usefulness:
Back then, Copilot was still called “Bing Chat,” and GPT-4 was still the best LLM around.
It was a simpler time.
LLMs have since gotten way better at coding and the interfaces for interacting with the resulting code have also improved.
Claude is the prime example: Its “Artifacts” window can natively run and display app elements, which lets you test and iterate without ever leaving the UI.
I once showed how to use Artifacts to create interactive courses from any material.
But I wanted to return to the question I posed over a year ago: Can a non-coder use LLMs and their coding abilities for something truly practical?
Why don’t we go ahead and find out?
🧪 The test
Just as before, I wanted to see how far one could get with a free tool.
So for this test, I stuc…