Generative AI changes the game

120 minutes. That’s all it took for me to create a complete React App, deployment and all.

But, it wasn’t really me, it was my alter ego, Claude that did all the hard work. Together, like a cyborg, Claude and I created www.memealchemist.com a completely AI powered Meme generator I’m using on this very blog (which I think is only fair since I create both the content and the generator).

FWIW: Does anyone else see the irony in having AI create AI apps?

Let me tell you what Claude did:

• Claude wrote almost all of the React code and allowed me to preview how it renders and works inside its interface.

• Claude helped me write API endpoints using n8n, providing the JSON workflow and then troubleshooting problems with me as the API and the front end integrated.

• Claude created a GitHub DevContainer with me and all of the necessary project files.

• Claude suggested I use Vercel to deploy the application, and guided me through the process of setting things up.

• Claude suggested the domain name.

• Claude ran out of capacity even though I’m on the Pro plan ;) (programming is heavy lifting, after all)

• and Midjourney creates a beautiful logo

I haven’t written any functional React code before. I have never used Vercel or n8n before. But within 120 minutes, I got a working application out there for you to use. That feels like a different game than the one we were playing yesterday. It is a different game than almost any company plays in today, but it’s here.