I Tried Out Claude AI’s New App Creator, and I Didn’t Have to Use Any Coding

Last year, Anthropic deployed a new feature entitled Artefacts in his Chatbot Claude AI, allowing users to see the real -time results of their conversations – think of diagrams, reports, websites or code extracts, for example. Now, the functionality has received a substantial upgrade, allowing you to create and share applications powered by AI simply by describing them.

The applications you create via this “room coding” approach can have Claude Ai smarts built just inside, and it is available for all users – you can try whether you are on a paid subscription or not. And if you share your creation with other people, when they execute the application, this will be counted against their use of Claude, not yours.

One of the examples gives Anthropic is a flashcard application. You can previously get Claude to code an application with flash cards, but you need to specify all the details and content of the card yourself. Now you can take advantage of Claude’s AI to create specific card content to individual users, because they can give chatbot prompts on the text they want to see.

The improved function must be available for everyone now, although you can activate it: on the web, click on the name of your account (bottom left), then choose Settings> Profile and activate Create artifacts fueled in AI. You will see some examples of applications that other people have created, and you can test any of these elements in your browser, as well as modifications via Personalize button.

Back on the main screen of the artefacts, you can see all the projects that you recently carried out and click New Artifact To start creating something new. You will receive some categories to choose from, including Games,, Productivity toolsAnd Creative projects– But if nothing adapts exactly, click Zero.

Create my own application

I haven’t done a lot of coding since I learned Basic in high school: I used it to code a football simulator that chose random scores and markers, which was very fun at the time. With the new and improved artifact tool from Claude available, I was interested in seeing how much I could make an application from vibrations.

My first thought was to ask Claude what I should create, a worrying reminder that AI removes our ability to think and make decisions ourselves. In the end, I used my own brain cells to make a choice: I wanted to create an application to generate quiz questions on any specified subject, with a scale of sliding difficulty and the available answers if necessary.

I explained what I wanted to use natural language and zero code: an application that would encourage the user to a subject, then display a question on this subject, with the possibility of revealing the answer in one click. I also wanted options to adjust the difficulty of question and change subjects. In fact, it took only one prompt to describe everything.

Claude made a little generator of careful quiz for me in a few minutes.
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Claude gave me a glimpse of what he would do before he started to build, telling me that he loved the vision of my application (I bet that for everyone). When I gave the green light, the browser window was divided to display the application and its raw code on the right (you can switch between these views in one click).

The resulting application was quite great the first time, certainly in terms of functionality – everything worked as I wanted and was well designed. The choice of questions and the evaluation of their AI difficulty was however a little wobbly: all the questions had the right answers attached, but the application tended to set itself on a limited set of subjects in each subject (specific films, actors or groups, for example).

It was probably unfair for me to ask a question about twin peaks in difficulty in children, but “where is the twin peaks?” Perhaps is a little too easy – and Claude also generated the same question at the next level of difficulty. The most difficult question concerned the tape recorder.

You can see the rewriting code in real time when making changes.
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These are more the limits of AI models and their understanding, however. In terms of real application creation, Claude is mainly impressed: he answered my questions and modifications very well, allowing me to change the colors and the arrangements with simple text prompts. It’s cool to see an application rebuilt in real time, and the Bot AI then explains the changes that have been made and why.

There was a problem with a new “Topic Suggests” box that Claude took a long time to do well, despite my attempts to disuse. Finally, he obtained the box in the right place, but it took several iterations to function properly. Sometimes the chatbot interface is too opaque, although the raw code is always available for serious programmers.

For the moment, this seems better suited to small -scale relaxed projects – as the examples show that Anthropic has put in the window, but I can see it useful for people who wish to develop personalized tools for the administrator or productivity. I really enjoyed the experience and I felt like I had learned a lot about the coding along the way, even if the end result was a bit glitchy (more to the content of the AI ​​than the real code).