I Tried and Failed to Rebuild the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude
4 days ago
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- The author attempted to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website using Claude, an AI, but failed despite multiple approaches.
- Claude could understand the layout conceptually but struggled with precise pixel measurements and spatial accuracy.
- Tools like grid overlays, coordinate references, and split-screen comparisons were introduced to aid Claude, but they didn't help achieve accurate results.
- Claude's overconfidence and inability to correct its own outputs led to repeated failures in matching the original design.
- The author hypothesizes that Claude's vision encoder processes images in coarse patches, limiting precise spatial reasoning.
- Attempts with zoomed-in screenshots and quadrant-based reconstruction also failed to produce the desired accuracy.
- The Space Jam website remains a challenging benchmark for AI recreation, highlighting limitations in current AI capabilities for precise visual tasks.