Matt Mack

Last night I (mostly vibe-) coded (using free Claude) a basic times tables quiz to help a student I'm privately tutoring/mentoring. Whole thing took less than an hour collectively, design was all Claude's doing. Very interesting experience.

https://matthras.github.io/times-tables-quiz.html

Times Tables Challenge

Mar 5 at 10:23pmWeb
Show threadkauerMar 5
@matthras Have you done an Internet search on e.g. "times table quiz source code" to see whose code Claude stole?
Show threadMatt MackMar 5

@kauer I agree with AI stealing art as a point of contention.

For me, the same does not apply for code even though yes, I'm aware scrapers do purposely ignore e.g. robots.txt

I have no intention of monetising or claiming copyright/uniqueness of this simple quiz, as there are many variants of it on the internet already.

But I would be remiss if as an academic I didn't give at least the free versions a try to see their capabilities and to better understand multiple perspectives rather than avoiding AI tools entirely on a morality angle.

Show threadkauerMar 5
@matthras It was snide of me, and I apologise.
Show threadMatt MackMar 7
@kauer That's all good. Probably not the best way one could've demanded accountability from another, but I hope showing my thinking at least demonstrated that I'm aware of the surrounding issues!
Show threadMarcus HelvigMar 6
@matthras Given that I met you at an accessibility conference, I assume you checked it for accessibility ;) [end smart arse joke]
Show threadMatt MackMar 7

@MarcusP Bahaha, well you caught me out on that one 😅

In my defence this was intentionally a very low stakes and very easy project to start practising vibe coding just to understand what experinced engineers are appreciating.

But maybe I should ask Claude to load it up with all the accessibility considerations and see what it spits out 🤔