Simon Willison: driving macOS Blender with ChatGPT Codex via three prompts
Simon Willison · rss · 2026-09-05
Simon Willison shares a quick recipe for using Blender with coding agents on macOS: install the full app from blender.org, then prompt the agent to use /Applications/Blender to render a scene (his test: a pelican riding a bicycle).
Two follow-up prompts — "add a background and a lot of flair" and "make it a whole lot better" — iteratively improved the render through Blender's Python API. A minimal, reproducible workflow for driving local 3D software with coding agents.
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