Random Vibe Code Webapps
A small collection of games, tools, and webapps, all generated by prompting AIs and rerunning them. Zero hand-written code. Mostly hilarious.
The premise: I never touch the keyboard for code. I prompt, watch the AI work, and iterate based on what breaks. The whole point is to probe where current models thrive and where they fall apart.
Comparison versions across different AIs will land here as I run them.
For the record: I'm Bennington Purcell, and I do know how to write code the old-fashioned way — professionally since 1999, when I was 13 and it was QBasic. A bunch of exits later, I now consult, helping people make sense of AI. Keeping my hands off the keyboard here is the experiment, not a limitation.
Games
12 entries
Little Leaps
A little hop goes a long way. Ride moving platforms, gather stars, and find your way home through endless, freshly generated sky adventures. No timer, no lost lives.
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JezzBall
Cut the field, box in the balls, and capture 75%. Chain captures for bonus points, earn back time, and fire a slow-motion pulse when things get crowded.
Play → what old ai could do
Flappy Birds
A little bird, a wide-open sky. Tap to flap, hold to glide, and thread the treetops. Collect stars to recharge a shield and keep your flight alive.
Play → what old ai could do
ASCII Minesweeper
Classic Minesweeper with a terminal-art aesthetic. Click to reveal, right-click to flag, don't die.
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Vibooding
A fresh crew of vector faces. Match three, bank shots off the walls, and send whole clusters tumbling.
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Theremin
The no-touch instrument, reborn through your webcam. Raise your right hand to climb a three-octave on-screen keyboard — always in tune — while your left hand's fingers turn each note into a major, minor, or 7th chord. Metronome included.
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Head Bop
A whole band in your body. Bounce your head and every bob goes BOOM on the bass drum; raise your hands and they sing rainbow notes that always sound good. Two hands, two notes — dance the song together.
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Maze Car
A little car, a maze, and three stars to collect before you park in the golden garage. Big thumb-sized arrows, no timer, nothing to lose — built for a small passenger. Pick a small maze or a big one; each maze you finish is a square bigger than the last.
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Spooky Forest
Ghosts, goblins, zombies and bats pop out of the trees — tap one and the little witch lobs a pumpkin at it. Forty-five seconds, nothing that can hurt you, and a very generous idea of what counts as a hit.
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Gourd Garden
A procedural 3D gourd, grown from a seed and drawn in pen and ink. Pumpkins, crooknecks, bottle gourds, turbans, a knucklehead or two — ribs, warts, a crooked neck and a stem, all computed, then hatched as you turn it over. Every seed is a gourd; every link is a seed. After Lingdong Huang's fishdraw.
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Spooky Forest 2
The sequel walks. You're moving through a dead winter forest in greyscale, bare trees sweeping past on both sides, and things step out of the dark into your path — a reaper, a scarecrow, something far too tall. Peg them with a pumpkin before you walk by.
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Collab NYT Spelling
A collaborative spin on the NYT Spelling Bee. Pool brains, find more words, chase the pangram.
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The Clockmaker’s Bench
A working grandfather clock model. Explore pendulum length, friction, beat errors, and driving power, with a practical guide to basic fault finding.
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The Easy Therapist
A thoughtful nod, a completely random question, and absolutely no qualifications. A joke chat app with 100 therapy-sounding questions.
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Little Pine — Lathe Trees
Size a little wooden pine tree, preview the turned shape, and print full-size cut locations and target diameters on US Letter paper.
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Slab — Pottery Templates
Design cups, butter dishes, bowls, vases, planters, and lidded boxes with adjustable dimensions, clay shrinkage, 3D previews, and full-size printable patterns.
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Komorebi: Equations
A forest written in math. Select any tree and rewrite its branching formulas, change its seed, or reshape its canopy. Save the editable grove or export an ink illustration.
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Komorebi
Grow pines, cherry blossoms, and bamboo in an endless ink landscape. Shape each tree from a seed, draw freely, wander through the mountains, and export your own quiet corner of the world.
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chatgourdspt
Grow a peculiar pumpkin, crooked-neck squash, or other one-of-a-kind gourd. Shape the ridges, sprinkle on warts, give it a glowing grin, and save a portrait of your harvest.
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Dinder
The newest one, and the first that lives on its own domain instead of in this repo. Go and have a look.
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For Every Life
A digital flag remembering people killed in US mass shootings. Read the incident record and choose how long the flag stays lowered for each life lost.
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Solar System
Eight worlds, one star, always in motion. Fly around a 3D solar system, follow a planet, and speed up time. Drag to rotate, pinch to zoom — from your phone or your desktop.
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The Cousins Machine
A kid-friendly tree-of-life explorer. Pick two animals and discover their common ancestor, when their lineages split, and a rough shared-DNA guess.
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Summer Garden Planner
Five questions — food or flowers, your zone, what you actually eat, how big the bed is — and out comes a plan: what to buy, when to sow it, and a scale drawing of where each thing goes. Tallest along the north edge, which is the bit most plans get wrong.
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The Instrument Cabinet
An homage to the 1990s multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedias: browse 23 instruments by family, by region or A–Z, and hear each one play. Except nothing here is sampled — every note is computed from the instrument's physics. A clarinet's even harmonics really are missing, and you can see it on the scope.
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Wildfire Scale
The animal-territory trick, pointed at fire. Drop the Camp Fire, the Palisades Fire, or Canada's entire 2023 season on top of your own street, drawn to true scale. Twenty-three fires from 2,170 acres to 59 million — and the smallest one on the list killed the most people.
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Local Animal Territory
Pick an animal and see how much ground one of them actually needs, drawn to scale on the map around your own spot. A chipmunk's whole world is a quarter of an acre; a coyote's is twelve square kilometres. Twenty North American species, chipmunk to black bear.
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Church Cousins
The Cousins Machine, pointed at Christianity. Pick two denominations and see where their lines last ran together, what the argument was, and how close a relation that makes them. Methodists and the Amish turn out to be first cousins once removed; the Amish and Baptists are second cousins.
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Tree of Life Explorer
An interactive phylogenetic tree of 60+ animals. Zoom, pan, collapse branches, and search — see how all life is connected.
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Earth Speed
You feel still, but you're moving fast in two directions at once. See your spot sweeping around Earth's axis, and the whole planet racing around the Sun — with real numbers for your latitude and today's date.
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Earth / Relief
Pick a region on a wind globe and lift it into a three-dimensional landscape. Explore real elevation, follow historical wind vectors across the terrain, and exaggerate the mountains to see their shape.
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World Signpost
Pick any spot on Earth and get the great-circle distance and true bearing to famous landmarks, stacked up as signpost planks. Print it as a ground compass and lay it out facing north.
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Deep Time
A zoomable timeline of Earth's history — 4.5 billion years, 229 events, and the full geological time scale. Read it as a horizontal chart or flip to a vertical scroll that works properly on a phone.
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US Weather Records Digest
Regional weather records broken and near-broken, refreshed weekly from NOAA, USDA, SPC, and Drought Monitor sources.
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