[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-claude-code-now-offers-original-games-instead-of-clones":10,"sections":40},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":35,"feedback":39,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":39,"total_tokens":39},12554,"claude-code-now-offers-original-games-instead-of-clones","Claude Code Now Offers Original Games Instead of Clones","Anthropic narrowed a prompt rule in Claude Code 2.1.317 after it blocked developers who only named a game to describe the mechanics they wanted.","Anthropic has narrowed a rule that stopped Claude Code from building games when users named an existing title. Claude now offers an original game in the same genre instead.\n\nTechnical staff member Addy Osmani described the change in an X post. Anthropic had added a short rule to the Opus 5.5 prompt (the standing instructions the model receives) to steer Claude away from recreating specific existing games. The rule also fired when users mentioned a game only to describe the mechanics they wanted, and developers complained that Claude was turning down legitimate projects.\n\nThe fix shipped in version 2.1.317. Users can now name a game to describe what they want, and Claude should build an original game in that genre. If someone asks for a straight copy, Claude offers to build something similar instead.\n\nThe rule exists because AI has changed the economics of copying. Decompiling a game, meaning working backward from a finished program toward its source, used to take teams of skilled volunteers months or years. AI tools make it much faster, though the output is not automatically clean. Some bad actors have also reverse-engineered demos from small and indie developers, then threatened to release an AI-completed version unless they were paid. Osmani wrote that Anthropic wants Claude \"to be as helpful as possible when you're building something original, but also to protect your work if someone else tries to copy it.\"\n\nThe episode shows the limits of a one-line prompt rule. \"Make a game like X\" and \"make X\" are different requests, but a blunt instruction struggles to tell them apart, and the cost of a misfire lands on paying customers. Games are also only one case. Frontier models can now produce rough clones of expensive software such as Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office. 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