“I spoke to my computer for 5 mins, Claude worked for 12 hours”
@donaldjewkes’ Opus 5.5 P(doom) video hits ~3.6M views
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- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra146 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.585 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen176 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7115 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 85 days before it.
Key facts
- X post 2026-09-23 16:44 UTC: ~3.61M views, 10.3k likes, 806 reposts, 441 replies (fxtwitter, 2026-09-29); video 2:21
- Prompt posted as a reply (~555k views): make an ‘updated version’ of the Claude Pop video, use Seedance 2.5 + fal character/style sheets, ElevenLabs sound design, a ‘pop protagonist that represents you’ adapted from ‘a sunflower-esque’ Claude character, K-pop as a visual anchor, rotoscope-style JavaScript overlay, big kinetic lyrics, ‘spend all of the usage’ of a Claude Max plan, ~$2k of fal credits, ‘make no mistakes.’
- Follow-up reply: ‘Claude had access to SD2.5, elevenlabs, libraries of references, and the repo from @other__reality’
- Derivatives: Pleometric (2026-09-24, ~670k views) followed the same workflow; makevoid remade it ‘as a paper music video’ (6M tokens + ~$65 of image/video generation); Nick Dobos called the prompt ‘masterclass prompt engineering’
What happened
Jewkes quote-posted John Heibel’s original and said he dictated the prompt (it contains speech-to-text errors like “foul” for fal and “Navi Stokes” for Navier–Stokes). He asked Claude to weave in “all of the current memes” on the timeline, such as the Navier–Stokes blow-up hype and “the Shinji meme”, in an “internet brutalism” style, aiming at “a San Francisco tech Twitter audience”. The work is a hybrid: generative video models make the base shots, and Opus-written JavaScript is drawn on top of them as the visible layer.
Why it matters
It is a public example of a single long-horizon agent run (about 12 hours) producing a finished creative work, with the model orchestrating other generative models through APIs. Its reach made “one prompt, overnight” the defining claim of the genre. Critics such as the OrcaRouter analysis point out that it depended on a heavy harness, reference libraries and paid tools.
Sources
6 sources from 1 site. Numbers match the chips in the text.
6 sources: 6 reactions
Reactions
- donaldjewkes: the video (X)x.com, discussion
- donaldjewkes: full prompt (X)x.com, discussion
- donaldjewkes: tools used (X)x.com, discussion
- Pleometric: follow-up video (X)x.com, discussion
- makevoid: paper remake (X)x.com, discussion
- Nick Dobos on the prompt (X)x.com, discussion
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