We should teach everyone how to write software with the AI apps. If the language is too hard, make a new language that's easier. Eventually we'll come up with a fantastic language but you and I won't invent it, people who are newbies in 2026 will. Just like there was a whole new generation of software for PCs, graphic UIs and then for networking and the web. Try this out in Claude.#
Can you create a browser-based app that asks for the user's name in a nice dialog, not the one built into the browser, and then takes the name and displays it using only css styles in a simple animated fashion. It quits when I hit the Escape key. Give it to me in the form of an html file that i can download and run by double-clicking it in the Finder. Call the app hello.html.#
I tried doing it but there was a bug in the result, and I had to say "Claude, 'delighted to make your acquaintance' appears but nothing else."#
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