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Exhibit No. 018 · Animation

Starship control panel

Ethan Mollick’s open-ended p5.js challenge: startle me with the control panel of a starship from the distant future.

Prompt

> create something I can paste into p5js that will startle me with its cleverness in creating something that invokes the control panel of a starship in the distant future

What it tests

Taste and ambition with no spec at all: how much detail and cleverness a model packs in on its own.

Origin

Ethan Mollick · 2025

568K views on the original post

Difficulty

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Results

Claude Opus 5.5

Run on 2026-10-19Open the raw answer

The model answered with a p5.js sketch, as asked. We run it unchanged in a page that loads p5.js, the way the p5.js editor does. Click the panel to engage the fold drive.

Test conditions

One attempt per test, with no edits after running. Where a first attempt didn’t work, the test was answered once more and the exhibit says so; answers that still don’t work are not shown. Run inside a Claude Code agent session, which includes its own system prompt, rather than the raw API.

All results for Claude Opus 5.5

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