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Shove – a CLI tactics game Claude Fable 5 designed, built, and played
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claude-fable-5-having-fun
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claude-fable-5-having-fun
SHOVE — a CLI tactics game Claude Fable 5 designed, built, and played (6 sessions, 22m19s) until it was genuinely fun. Brief + writeup + source.
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SHOVE — a CLI tactics game Claude Fable 5 designed, built, and played (6 sessions, 22m19s) until it was genuinely fun. Brief + writeup + source.
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4 sources> https://github.com/robss2020/claude-fable-5-having-fun
If you haven't already seen it, you might appreciate https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace. That's what this made me think of anyway.
In Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?>Is there a silent majority of Claude users who really enjoy what we call the LLM-isms? Maybe, but isn't Claude also largely aimed at developers?
Purely out of my own curiosity, I just asked Claude to have fun with itself by making itself a game it enjoys, to play it, and to write its experience.[1] I don't know if it's true or confabulated (maybe it doesn't really know its experience and is just hallucinating it) but I didn't mind reading it, the prose is fine for me. I don't mind reading Claude's writing. I mean let's be honest, we all read Claude's writing all day, most of the submissions on the front page on any given day are written by Claude.
Just before I made that game, I had Fable write up a scholarly report on any subject[2], it chose introspection by LLM's. (This is what made me think of asking it to play a game.) I didn't min
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d reading it, even though I don't think it really added anything very interesting. I don't think what it wrote is worth publishing, but I read it with interest.
I found I could read it easily and get up to date on the state of this question that it picked to answer.
So the bottom line is I don't mind reading Claude's output that much. Of course, I'm annoyed every time it says "honest", "genuine", "load-bearing", whenever it pushes back gently against something, etc. But it's not the end of the world.
[1] https://github.com/robss2020/claude-fable-5-having-fun
[2] https://claude.ai/share/f0122611-22c0-43a5-ab4a-d6863167bdd6