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Scrimshaw Jukebox turns a text music format into playable game music
Claude Opus 5.5 designed a simple text format for music and built an artifact that plays it, producing tracks the author found surprisingly good. It’s a small, hands-on example of model-generated code extending text models into creative tasks.
- What
- - Scrimshaw Jukebox is an artifact Claude Opus 5.5 made to play computer-game music written in a simple text-based format.
- How
- - Opus 5.5 produced music the author found surprisingly good, though it leaned more into the Monkey Island theme than intended.
- Why it matters
- - Whether music composition is a newly emerging model capability is unconfirmed; comparisons across recent and older models are needed.
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