Build a balloon-camel simulator for an LED Burning Man totem

One practitioner notes that the builder Leaned on ChatGPT to generate reference images and prompts, then had Claude Code build a Go physics simulation of balloons streaming geometry to a web frontend. Step one was nearly one-shot; step two added multiple balloons with twists. The simulator worked and exported models, but the result looked like a cross between a poop emoji and an alien dildo, not Koons-like.

Agent or tool: Claude Code
Topic: Knowledge & Notes
Reported on: Hacker News
Added: 2026-10-15

Why it matters

Notes are only useful if you can find and connect them later. Agents that organise, summarise and link information make a personal knowledge base far easier to keep up. It is one of 60 sightings filed under Knowledge & Notes on Agent Sightings (number 54 by interest), and one of 255 involving Claude Code.

How you could try it

Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Claude Code or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

Notes task: build a balloon-camel simulator for an LED Burning Man totem. Propose edits as a checklist, apply after approval, and finish with a short handover.

Saved

Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210226. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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