Five minutes of talking, twelve hours of Claude
One prompt to Opus 5.5: he spoke to his computer for five minutes, Claude worked for twelve hours, and he woke up to a finished animated short.
What it took
- Time
- 12 h
- Prompts
- 1
The ratio is the whole story: five minutes of talking, one prompt, then twelve hours in which no person was in the loop at all.
That is a different claim from "AI helped me edit." He went to bed, and what he woke up to is what he posted. Whatever taste went into it went in up front, in the prompt — and he published the full prompt, so anyone can see exactly how much direction it took.
The interface has shrunk to a conversation. The expensive part is no longer the making; it is knowing what to ask for, and trusting the run long enough to find out if you were right.

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@donaldjewkes
I made this with one prompt using Opus 5.5 I spoke to my computer for 5mins, claude worked for 12 hours, and I woke up to this full prompt: https://t.co/2lxO8SAIEb
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