One prompt, nine genre shifts: Ethan Mollick has Claude make a self-referential recursion explainer video
emollick · x · 2026-09-26
Ethan Mollick shared a playful demo: he prompted Claude Opus 5.5 to make "a video explaining recursion, where every explanation uses a radically different video style, self-referential, clever and fast-moving." The result shifts through nine distinct genres from a single prompt, showcasing one-shot creative video orchestration.
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