Social programming

I’ve been watching two people working on a WebSim app on the site’s official Discord. It’s interesting to see pair programming where neither person is coding. Instead they’re trying to fenagle Claude into doing what they want. Sometimes they just resubmit the prompt. Sometimes they reword it. And occasionally they have to read the code and give more explicit instructions.

Meanwhile, I worked on a game idea I had a while back: Tic Tac Toto. It’s tic-tac-toe, but a little dog wanders around eating the X’s and O’s, and occasionally a tornado clears some of the pieces. I found I went a bit further than I normally would have—including a one-player mode—and I think it was the social aspect of working on it while the Discord livestream was running. They weren’t giving up, so I didn’t want to give up.