Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Feb 21 Fun bonus tip: regular Claude chat (not Claude Code) has the ability to clone repos from GitHub these days, which means you can ask it to checkout ANY public repo and answer questions about it or even use it as a starting point for an artifact!
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ha i didn't know it was new. I asked it two days ago to analyze a bunch of sandboxing methods to (finally!) decide on one and it did exactly that for the repo urls.
wow you can have it hallucinate about any public repo
That’s actually really good to know because I remember trying it months ago and it failing miserably to do a web fetch Also…LLMs are incredible for describing a repo and its architecture. They’re not always great at coming up with good architecture but they’re pretty solid at reading it