One prompt, 86 minutes, $25.66: Claude Opus 5.5 builds an interactive lens physics lab
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-09-26
Developer Ryan Sael asked Claude Opus 5.5 to explain camera focus by building an interactive lens lab from a single prompt. The result: one shot, 1 hour 26 minutes of runtime, $25.66 in API cost, and a fully explorable simulation where moving the focus ring shifts the sharp plane through the scene via glass elements. The post frames it as a milestone — not 'AI wrote an essay,' but AI constructing an interactive physics environment on its own.
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