How Anthropic built Artifacts <- Super interesting fullstack AI article

Hey everyone!

I stumbled across an article the other day that covers exactly how the developers at Anthropic (the creators of Claude) built the new Artifacts feature and it's AWESOME!

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-anthropic-built-artifacts

If you're interested in seeing how modern development teams build and ship out new features for use to use, you will really the behind-the-scene view this article shares.

Here's a quick overview of what's covered in the article:

From the drawing board to shipping Artifacts. A scrappy prototype demonstrated on “WIP Wednesdays” kicked off what became Artifacts.
Tech stack. Streamlit, Node.js, React, Next, Tailwind, and Claude.
Using Claude to build Artifacts faster. The team not only dogfooded Claude, but used their LLM to build software faster, including Artifacts.
Timeline and team. A tiny team built and shipped this feature in just 3 months.
AI products and security. Security is part of everything Anthropic does. An explainer on how model security works, and the product security approach for Artifacts.
When is an idea a winner? Not even the engineers building this feature expected it to be as successful as it is.
GenAI paradigm shift? Artifacts is not a massive feature in itself, but it could pave the way for GenAI becoming a much more collaborative tool.

I haven't paid for the subscription so I've only read the first 4 sections of the article, but I really liked the free version of the post 😂

The part I liked the most was how they quickly built out a prototype of their idea. To start, they used Streamlit to crank out a proof of concept. Once the full team was onboard with the idea, they swapped over to NextJS to build out a more production ready app.

Hope you guys enjoy!

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