# Claude Fable's Shepherd's Dog

> Source: <https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/claude-fable-shepherds-dog>
> Published: 2026-06-12 00:00:00+00:00

# Claude Fable's Shepherd's Dog

June 12, 2026

1 min read

A few days ago Anthropic released the model that was supposedly too dangerous for the world to see. I wanted to give the model a try and used my personal benchmark: Can it create an idea for a game that I've had for years in one shot. The model started with a -- very -- long reasoning session and after 45 minutes and more than 20 euros worth of tokens (!) it happily reported that "Shepherd's Dog is complete — a single 1,296-line index.html with zero dependencies."

You can see the result in the video below or give the game a [try](https://github.com/vnglst/when-ai-fails/blob/main/shepards-dog/README.md) It's really fun and exactly how I imagined it. For me this is the first time an AI model is able to create this for me in one go:

- Other attempts with earlier models:
[github.com/vnglst/when-ai-fails/blob/main/shepards-dog/README.md](https://github.com/vnglst/when-ai-fails/blob/main/shepards-dog/README.md)
