The discussion about wanting 3D stuff over LLM text reminded me I hadn't tried coercing a model into making a map into a bit.
Found a VMF-making python library, gave Claude 4pus access to it, and told it to make a cool competitive-ready castle arena map with cover and such.
Did it do a good job? No. It put stairs on backwards, I had to replace texture names with dev textures so it wasn't purple-black hell (not really its fault, I'm not giving it the ability to look through the texture viewer or any guidance. most of it was it getting de_inferno/infernoceiling01 right and extrapolating to infernowall and infernofloor,) and there's other inaccessible areas.
But it did better, this is at least recognizable as a castle and has a skybox.
Anyway thanks for reading my blogpost here's me running around the map
https://files.catbox.moe/qlkamr.mp4