I Successfully Recreated the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude

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TLDR: here is the github link for Claude’s output, as well as a few testing artifacts and the entire transcript conversation between me and Claude Code. The site Claude created is on github pages here: https://tilework-tech.github.io/space-jam/Yesterday, this post from Jonah Glover made it to the top of Hacker News. Can Claude recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills. Note: please help, because I’d like to preserve this website forever and there’s no other way to do it besides getting Claude to recreate it from a screenshot. Believe me, I’m an engineering manager with a computer science degree. Please please please help 😞To flesh the ask out a bit more, Jonah gave Claude Code (Opus 4.1) a screenshot of the original landing page, a directory of the image assets, and this prompt:I am giving you:1. A full screenshot of the Space Jam 1996 landing page.2. A directory of raw image assets** extracted from the original siteYour job is to recreate the landing page as faithfully as possible, matching the screenshot exactly.This is the sort of task that coding agents are perfect for. I’ve often said that all problems are search problems, but that’s not always easy to make actionable. But here it’s very easy to make that actionable! You have a screenshot, the pixel diffs make this really straightforward!I sort of do agree that Claude Code on its own would not be able to do this. But Claude powered by nori configs absolutely should be able to. So, challenge accepted. Here was my initial prompt:I am giving you: 1. A full screenshot of the Space Jam 1996 landing page (screenshot.png)2. A directory of raw image assets extracted from the original site (files/) Your job is to recreate the landing page as faithfully as possible, matching the screenshot exactly.Use the webapp-testing skill. Take screenshots and compare against the original. <required>You must be pixel perfect.</required>This is a slight variation on Jonah’s original prompt. At t...