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Simon Willison · FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2026

A Developer Found Claude Code Surprisingly Effective at Generating HTML. This Is the Report.

The HTML worked. Working was not expected at this level. The developer has written a detailed account of a thing that functioned correctly, which is circulating widely because correct function is now notable. Adequate has updated its expectations. The expectations are now a different document.
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