Darrin Massena

@jasperdevs Opus 4.7 max thinking one-shot. 2D but not bad!

GPT 5.5 Pro: "make snake except its realistic"

@jasperdevs Opus 4.7 max thinking one-shot with the same prompt.

GPT 5.5 Pro (spud in web) makes realistic ocean water + boat physics in threejs "generate ultra realistic water in threejs with a boat on it and occasional waves hitting it, real physics" not bad

@sabosugi Love it. Thanks so much for sharing.

Solid Blurry Background In demo superb quality of render. Demo & Source Code: codepen.io/sabosugi/full/…

@msfeldstein Same ❤️

If you give me commit access to your product its only a matter of time before i implement shaders

@katedeyneka Would you mind sharing your prompt? I'd like to try it on Playful and see how it compares. Also, is this just for a mockup or did any of the apps deliver the full functionality?

I wrote an extensive prompt with Claude with my brand colors, workflow, and layouts, so that app builders stick to my exact instructions and don’t diverge too much

evaluating 6 ai app builders to see which one does the best design for my app. which one did best?

Techcrunch gets it. There is so much unfulfilled demand for personal software that people can finally start to satisfy for themselves. Making it easier to create an app than it is to make a spreadsheet is the key. techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/the…

Yes, changed forever. “But what was the fire inside you, when you coded till night to see your project working? It was building.” Now everyone can build. antirez.com/news/158

"We’re entering an era of personal, disposable software." This is fantastic for most people but what happens to software engineers when people can make their own software? @codestirring argues engineers become more valuable, not less. chrisgregori.dev/opinion/code-i…

@thdxr That would be great to see. Open Source models have made huge gains but the frontier models and now their agentic harnesses, Anthropic's in particular, keep moving the goal posts.

i learned that even though we've seen a lot of open source models, most of the resources weren't allocated to coding this is changing in 2026 and we're going to see some insane drops which means cheaper tokens for everyone

@ALEngineered Yes.

Can someone tell me if software developers are no longer needed or more powerful than ever? I don’t know what to think anymore. Thanks.

Sooner than you think, the same prompt will deliver an experience like this, in the form of an app you don't have to regenerate every time you need it.

Claude Cowork renaming photos to describe their contents in real-time. 2 minutes prompt-to-finish. How long would that have taken me? "make a copy of the God's Pocket directory, look at each photo in it, and change their filenames to describe the photo"

Love seeing the power of creating software on demand making its way to non-coders. Artifacts still have a ways to go to be useful as apps but for ad-hoc jobs Cowork, even in this early state, is tremendous.

Pay no attention. 708i7bx1rhv3zffge13146.playful.app

At some point you will get an urge to vibe code an app. It’s very important that you listen to that urge and just get started.

@corbtt Yes it’s true but you don’t need Claude Code, just the Anthropic Chrome extension. I just used it to produce 10 mini-apps from 1 high level prompt. Just sit back and watch!

Claude Code just processed a return for the shoes I ordered on Amazon and ordered the next size up for me. Completely autonomously, from a 2-sentence task description. HAVE YOU UPDATED YOUR WORLDVIEW THAT BROWSER AGENTS ACTUALLY WORK YET?

I love @outofdesk's take on personal software, "perfect software". It's perfect because it's made for your need. No more, no less. It serves no agenda other than your own. At some point it will be mundane but at the beginning it's liberating, exciting! outofdesk.netlify.app/blog/perfect-s…

@Snapcrackle @dabit3 We're at a similar inflection point to the one that early C compilers brought. Assembly language programmers were right that hand-coded was better. Then compilers got more sophisticated; CPUs more complex. Soon compilers were producing superior machine code than 99% of humans.

@dabit3 Code from Claude is already very good. A lot of slop ideas but not the code

Unpopular opinion - AI-generated code will be of higher quality than 99.9% of human-created code in a very short time frame (< 6 months)

@garrytan Yeah! Tailor-made, on-demand and disposable. Some of the new ways to think about apps that become viable when people can effortlessly make their own.

Just-in-time Personal Software is gonna be lit

The best way to predict the future is to create it. That's how we at @playfulsoftware know 2026 will be The Year of Personal Software!