A 3-minute history of AI, rendered entirely from code
From “Attention Is All You Need” to AGI, with no stock footage and no image or video generator — every frame drawn from code.
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Most "AI-generated video" is a diffusion model dreaming. This is the opposite: deterministic code drawing every frame, with the author describing the intent and iterating.
That distinction matters practically. Generated video drifts and hallucinates detail; code-rendered video is exact, re-renderable, and editable. For an explainer — where a diagram has to actually be correct — that is the difference between a vibe and a document.
The subject is AI's own history, which makes it a neat demonstration: the medium and the message are the same technique.
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From “Attention Is All You Need” to AGI, with no stock footage and no image or video generator — every frame drawn from code.
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