Claude Sonnet 3.5 — SitePoint

Among the large language models (LLMs), ChatGPT has consistently taken the crown, but one could argue that this has changed with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 release. This short blog post showcases how one creator used Claude for prototyping a simple idea.

Writing your idea down is the most basic principle in product development. If we go further, we’ll have a basic design of how it may look and function. But going beyond this, what if you had a basic prototype?

It seems like a dream scenario where you can interact with your prototype, but in reality, going from doc to design and possibly even prototype is far too much of an investment for most small businesses and startups.

But what if this process were to become affordable? Enter Claude Sonnet 3.5:

In the above tweet (or x-post as they say these days), user Balaji showcases a short video of how he was able to generate a quick prototype for a to-do list web app in less than a minute. Claude’s “Artifacts” allow you to preview the generated code and interact with it, which is truly an amazing leap in how far AI has come.

Although the above video uses a very simple idea, you’ll likely have to do some good prompt engineering to get close to a more feature-rich prototype. And a lot more work on logic and bug fixes if you actually need to deploy it.

Nonetheless, this is just a start, and the next iterations of this model are only going to be better. You can try this model yourself for free on Claude’s site, but due to the limits, you’ll most likely have to purchase the pro plan to do anything remotely serious.

I have seen many heavy users of ChatGPT comment on how Sonnet 3.5 blows GPT-4o out of the water in the technical and programming domains. If you’re not convinced, just take a quick search about Sonnet 3.5 on X (formerly Twitter), and you’ll see tons of great examples of people showcasing its abilities.

I’ll leave one for you below and end it with this: The barrier between idea and reality just got a whole lot thinner.