AI Can't Recreate Thrust (But It Can Help You Understand It)

I asked Claude to recreate the classic 1986 game Thrust for me in the browser. It created slop but then things spiralled out of control. Thrust was one of my favourite games on the BBC Micro — written by Jeremy C. Smith and published in 1986, it&rsquo;s a deceptively deep game with amazing physics and gameplay. You pilot a ship through caverns, collecting fuel, avoiding turret fire, and retrieving…