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Heat Metrics Lab is now public — nine chapters of scrollytelling about air temperature, heat index, and WBGT, each anchored on primary sources, with a JS↔Python drift gate holding 56× tolerance headroom, no analytics, deployed to Cloudflare Pages. The Anthropic-tooling counterweight to heat-protein-lab.
Two days after heat-protein-lab shipped on Google's stack (Antigravity 2.0, Stitch MCP, DeepMind Science Skills), I built the same class of artifact on the Anthropic stack (Claude Code, advisor, tufte-viz, subagent-driven-development, session-report). Both produced a 9-chapter scrollytelling explainer deployed to Cloudflare Pages. The session-report telemetry shows heat-metrics-lab cost 2.7× fewer tokens. The Anthropic side caught two pre-ship bugs that the Google side had no equivalent gate for. The Google side still has the clearest single advantage — Science Skills' structured domain data — and no Anthropic counterpart today.
heat-metrics-lab Chapter 5 built a 1140-cell divergence map — and the tufte-viz skill caught a normalization choice that would have silently told the wrong story about WBGT vs heat index. A post about design-layer bugs that code review can't see.