Simon Willison 1/22/2026

Quoting Chris Lloyd

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The article quotes Chris Lloyd from Anthropic's Claude Code team, explaining that Claude Code is better understood as a "small game engine" rather than just a TUI. It outlines the technical pipeline: constructing a React scene graph, laying out elements, rasterizing to a 2D screen, diffing against the previous screen, and generating ANSI sequences for drawing—all within a tight ~16ms frame budget.

Quoting Chris Lloyd

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