My 4 year old made a game

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Bored playing the nth round of Uno, I thought it would be fun to write a game with my 4 year old daughter. Using Claude Sonnet 3.7 as our "developer" and me acting as the "Product Manager" aka LLM translator, I tried to capture her instructions as verbatim as I could, only adding context to make the prompts work. The result is a simple browser game which you can play. I added a writeup of all the prompts along the way so you can see how this was put together. It was only after I realised where she drew her inspiration from. If you have kids, it's definitely a fun exercise. My wife and I were blown away with how quickly we got something working, my daughter grew tired of it after about a minute.... I fear that this generation will never really appreciate how much effort this used to take. (No analytics, no signup, etc)

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