One request → 2.5 hours → $54

It wrote the story and every line on screen, then built everything from code: ~4,000 lines of JavaScript, a film look with bloom, grain and light leaks, and 4,368 frames at 1080p.

The music is original too. A second Claude agent composed the score and synthesized every sound - the cassette, the dial-up modem, the BUZZ!, the crickets - while the first one drew the frames.

~2.5 hours from prompt to final file. ~$54. Rendered on CPU in the cloud, no GPU. No stock footage, no samples, no existing songs.

My favourite moment: the same grey, rainy courtyard gets repainted golden.

"Memory isn't an archive. It's a painter." 🥲