The original idea to ask for clocks came from Claude itself. After Opus 5.5 was released, I asked it for ideas for interesting projects to try, and clocks was one of its suggestions. Some of the later prompts included suggested themes, but those came from Opus, too.
The only instructions that originated with me were striving for variety, making the page self-contained, randomizing the display sequence, and putting the clock names and explanations behind mouseovers/clicks. Even the controls at the top of the page were added by Opus on its own initiative.
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The original idea to ask for clocks came from Claude itself. After Opus 5.5 was released, I asked it for ideas for interesting projects to try, and clocks was one of its suggestions. Some of the later prompts included suggested themes, but those came from Opus, too.
The only instructions that originated with me were striving for variety, making the page self-contained, randomizing the display sequence, and putting the clock names and explanations behind mouseovers/clicks. Even the controls at the top of the page were added by Opus on its own initiative.