All ideasMore in Work
Work

He made an animated video of 35 years of Linux history with AI

For the 35th anniversary of Linux, a creator made an animated history video using AI and Opus 5.5. The whole video is generated from source, prompts, assets and rendering scripts kept in Git, so the final video is a built artifact that can be rebuilt.

How it works

  1. He sets up a video as code workflow with AI
  2. Source, prompts, assets and rendering scripts live in Git
  3. The agent builds the animation of 35 years of Linux history
  4. The finished video is published

Why it’s worth knowing

The video is not edited, it is compiled; the film exists because the code and prompts that make it do.

Where it’s from

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

Upgraded prompt

A ready-to-use prompt for this idea, built from research on what makes AI agents do the job right: who the AI should be, the exact steps, and a check to make sure it was done the way you wanted.

1Who the AI should be
2The prompt, with the steps
3The check when it’s done
Upgraded prompts are coming soon.

Try next

WorkFind me 48 school-district customers and draft each pitch — one replied, booked and paidWorkA contractor talks measurements into his phone and QuickBooks sends the estimate in 45 secondsWorkMy bot sent 100 follow ups to stalled customers. One became a $2,000 sale.$2,000 one timeWorkMatch 904 insurance documents overnight at my dental clinic

Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.