Agent given total creative freedom produces a 1:44 code-drawn animated short film
ivegotnoidea1 · reddit · 2026-11-02
A Reddit user gave an anonymous LMArena agent a max-effort prompt: choose everything yourself, verify work via Playwright/Chromium screenshots, no video generators, don't deliver until satisfied, and respect the 128MB workspace limit. The agent (reportedly Gemini behind the scenes) produced "THE LAST GARDENER," a 1-minute-44-second fully procedural flat-vector animated short with synthesized score: a one-wheeled robot who guarded a dead planet's last plant for 4,096 days and sacrifices its battery-heart to keep a flower alive. The agent piped frames into ffmpeg to avoid the file cap and self-reviewed via screenshots. The poster warns that a prior attempt blew the 128MB/10,000-file budget at 1,797MB across 5,533 files, losing the work.
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