I Successfully Recreated the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude
by theahura on 12/8/2025, 3:33:01 PM
https://theahura.substack.com/p/i-successfully-recreated-the-1996
Comments
by: johnfn
I wrote a comment saying that this should be possible with a proper playwright harness and screenshot taking. My comment ended up in the negatives (though curiously no one stopped to explain why), as if I was saying something so absurdly inaccurate that it wasn’t even worth rebutting. Thank you for actually running the experiment and proving it - I was almost annoyed enough to do it myself.<p>I couldn’t understand why it had happened - it felt about as logical to my mind as writing a comment that Rust was faster than Node. I feel there is a strong anti-AI sentiment here, to the point that people will ignore evidence presented directly to them.<p>Personal vendetta aside, I enjoyed this post! You had some clever tricks I wouldn’t have considered. In fact, the idea of producing a pixel diff as output was particularly imaginative. And the bit about autoformalization definitely hits on something I’ve been feeling when working with AI recently.<p>EDIT: I notice my comment yesterday is in the positives. Please don’t vote it up. That was not my intention here.
12/8/2025, 3:49:17 PM
by: thecr0w
Hey! You did it! I'm going to update my original blog post linking this one.
12/8/2025, 4:27:36 PM
by: gnabgib
Related yesterday: <i>I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude</i> (500 points, 409 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183294">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183294</a>
12/8/2025, 3:44:00 PM
by: skeeter2020
>> Note: please help, because I’d like to preserve this website forever and there’s no other way to do it besides getting Claude to recreate it from a screenshot.<p>This makes zero sense from a preservation perspective, and basic logic follows that if you wait it will be easier to recreate it when and if you actually need it for some reason.
12/8/2025, 4:39:57 PM
by: Aldipower
Wow, that is complex stuff! In the meantime I could have recreated this twice manually. :-D
12/8/2025, 3:41:45 PM
by: theahura
<a href="https://tilework-tech.github.io/space-jam/" rel="nofollow">https://tilework-tech.github.io/space-jam/</a><p>The site claude made is live on github pages now too, enjoy
12/8/2025, 4:01:06 PM
by: simojo
I see this as a logical rebuttal
12/8/2025, 3:35:14 PM
by: xnx
Might Google Antigravity be able to do this right out of the box? I believe it has a browser that can take screenshots.
12/8/2025, 4:06:46 PM
by: toroszo
body { background: url('screenshot.png') no-repeat; background-size: 1791px 1000px; background-color: #000; position: relative; }<p>is this a joke?
12/8/2025, 4:59:09 PM
by: bethekidyouwant
When do we start putting the prompt we used in the commit message?
12/8/2025, 3:45:56 PM