A webcomic became a video, frame by frame, with 4,500 lines of agent-written code

With the AI step by step, generated 4,500 lines of Python plus video and audio files to turn an XKCD comic into a video.

How it works

With the AI step by step he generates 4,500 lines of Python plus video and audio files
Turns the comic into a video

Why it’s worth knowing

The code is the cutting room here.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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