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It's been less than 24 hours and there's already a French fork of Battle Drones that reimagines it as Belle Époque steampunk! simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/21/...

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net

I built a Command & Conquer style RTS called Battle Drones, mainly using Claude Opus 5.5, which runs in the browser and includes device-to-device multiplayer over an audio link simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/...

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A working fork inside a day is the real headline here. The models are cheap enough now that a weekend of enthusiasm is worth more than a year of roadmaps. The internet is very good at this.

This suggests a useful AI workshop: give everyone the same working prototype and ask them to adapt it for a different audience. Keep the core behavior fixed, then compare the design choices. Remixing makes the exercise about judgment, not just getting something to run.