User has Claude Opus 5.5 auto-edit public domain footage into a viral-style 'Little Dark Age' video

nptacek · x · 2026-09-28

User @bitstein pointed Claude Opus 5.5 at a repository of public domain archival footage and let it edit the clips itself, producing a 'Little Dark Age'-style archival montage video. Captioned "We built this. Build again.", it's another striking demo of AI agents handling creative editing end-to-end — selecting footage, pacing, and cutting to music.

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