I'm guessing the OP is looking at this through the lens of more mom and pop users on the chat interface rather than the greater product line of these companies with all their dev tooling.
I turned off artifacts months ago because it would:
- frequently update code incorrectly / bad edit diff
- act like it updated / created an artifact when it just did nothing
- slowly / painfully delete every single line one by one before rewriting
- use artifacts for things that shouldn't have had any code written at all
Just wasn't worth the value it provided. This was before claude code.
I find it useless most of them time and wish I could disable it.
I think this one is a visual artifact. I think it always rewrites artifacts from scratch internally, but the UI tries to make it look like it isn’t doing that. The result is that it looks like it’s deleting lines from the inside of the text instead of just writing them.
That said, I’ve also experienced all of your complaints, except the bad edit one (but I see that all the time in Claude Code/Aider).
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Erroring in that way specifically makes me think the "deleting every line" issue isn't just a visual artifact but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Here's all his posts tagged with claude-artifacts: https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude-artifacts/
I like the use case for mini design exploration tools
[0] ended up making it a browser extension instead https://mattsayar.com/simple-wikiclaudia/
yshunnar•10h ago