OK, after my last post, I was going to spend the rest of the day watching the last episode of Stranger Things, but I got the itch to return to my AI experimentation, so I did. Specifically, I decided to try my idea to upgrade to Copilot Pro and build the app again from scratch with a different model. The end result can be found here. I set the model to Claude Opus 4.6 (high) and worked through it.
Things went much more smoothly than they did the first time (when I was using Haiku 4.5). Still, the end result wasn’t quite as good as the one produced with Claude Code.
I’ve got a 30-day free trial of Copilot Pro, so I may experiment with it some more over the next few weeks. Of course, I have a paid Copilot sub available to me from work too, so I really don’t need a personal sub, if I’m just using it to mess around a little. So I don’t think I’ll keep the personal Pro sub.
For personal experimentation, going forward, I’ll probably use my Claude Pro sub, since I’ve paid for that for a whole year.
Oh, and one more thing on the Towers of Hanoi: I’m finding myself slightly coveting the wooden puzzle shown on that episode of Astrid. I’ve looked around on Amazon and Etsy, and there are a lot of versions of it out there, but none of them really grabbed me. So for now, I think I’ll stick with the virtual versions.