Weird LLM Apps
In the past few weeks, I've used Claude to make small apps that have sometimes been useful to me and other times just for fun.
You can find the complete list of LLM-generated apps at weird.enumerator.dev. I don't really like any of these apps. I think it's weird that it's so easy to get an LLM to make them and so hard to find some of the actually-useful versions of these apps on regular websites.
This started when a few of my family members were running a race in the US and I wanted to know their paces in KM/minute. But the race website only gave miles per minute.
Google searches turned up horribly useless charts and graphs or pages full of ads. Claude wrote a pace converter in a few seconds. I took a bit of time to add unnecessary flourish to it, like a rainbow and a 💩.
A few days later, I had the same trouble finding a useful mortgage calculator, so I asked Claude to write one for me. It did a good enough job for my needs, but I'm not sure if it's exactly correct.
It is interesting that for these two use cases, it was easier to ask Claude to write me something than to find something useful on the Internet. That makes me sad. What happened to the useful Internet? Is it all locked into ad-ridden websites?
