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It lands at 70.0 klbf of takeoff thrust; GE's number is 69,800 lbf.",[295,302,303],{},"Colors, finishes and shapes checked side by side against about 150 photos of the real engine and airframe.",[295,305,306],{},"Thermal and pressure views, plus flight phases from takeoff to landing with EICAS-style gauges.",[295,308,309],{},"Compressor surge, bird strike, fan blade-off and icing scenarios.",[295,311,312],{},"A borescope you turn by hand, a teardown sequence, and a digital twin panel that reads trend CSVs.",[295,314,315],{},"Engine swaps: Trent 1000, GE9X, GE90, LEAP-1A, and the CFM RISE open fan.",[295,317,318],{},"Synthesized engine sound, with a nozzle chevron A\u002FB toggle.",[295,320,321],{},"An \"Ask Claude about this part\" box in the Claude-hosted version, using the artifact's built-in access to Claude.",[234,323,324],{},"That's about 4,700 lines of strict TypeScript with one dependency (Three.js). I did all of it from my phone, in the Claude mobile app, with Claude Code running on Anthropic's infrastructure. I never opened a laptop.",[234,326,327,328,333],{},"None of this surprised me as much as it would have a year ago. I've been doing a lot of Three.js lately, and Claude is very good at it. The big one is ",[238,329,332],{"href":330,"rel":331},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.third-option.ai",[242],"Farwonder",", a Jackbox-style game and learning app I'm building for my kids: early reading and math as short 3D games.",[335,336,338],"h2",{"id":337},"were-not-asking-enough","We're not asking enough",[234,340,341],{},"Opus 5.5 is that good, and it's cheap enough that I never thought twice about another run. So I just kept going. Add the aircraft. Make it true scale. Add a cycle model. Add a borescope. Swap in other engines. Run it, run it, run it.",[234,343,344],{},"Most of us still prompt these models small. Fix this function. Write this test. Summarize this doc. Then we judge the model by what comes back from that small ask.",[234,346,347],{},"I almost stopped at \"recreate it locally.\" That would have been a fine result, and it would have taught me nothing about what Opus 5.5 can do.",[234,349,350],{},"Ask for more. Then ask again.",[352,353],"hr",{},[234,355,356],{},[357,358,359],"em",{},"Personal side project built only from public information. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by GE Aerospace, CFM International, Safran, Rolls-Royce, Boeing or Airbus. All numbers are approximate and illustrative.",{"title":361,"searchDepth":362,"depth":362,"links":363},"",2,[364],{"id":337,"depth":362,"text":338},"2026-10-04","I asked Claude to recreate a jet engine demo from a video clip. A day later, all from my phone, I had a true-scale GEnx-1B with a cycle model, a borescope and a digital twin. 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