Motion Design · Sep 27, 2026
I remade Apple's "Here's to the crazy ones" for AI agents [Skill included]
I remade Apple's… by johnmckeownn, credited to Claude Opus 5.5. Watch the Motion Design video, explore the shared prompt and visit the original Reddit post.
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I made a parody of Apple's "Here's to the crazy ones" ad but about AI agents, with Opus 5.5 running the show. I wrote the jokes, recorded the voiceover in my lounge, and bossed a swarm of agents around until they made the rest. It's about as vibe-coded as a video gets, which is fitting, because the agents behaved exactly like the ones in the script. The crew was Claude Opus as the lead, one Opus doing the coding and one GPT-6 Sol as the critic. Took about six hours, a fair chunk of that was me going "no, a different shot". The old footage is public-domain silent films off archive.org. The joke cards were made in a motion engine called Tesseract (the one where renaming a variable hires 65 interns is my favourite), and Kling did the cartoon mascot. Music is Suno. I asked for a serious documentary score and the first go sounded like I'd booked a Thai massage. Adding "no synth pads, no flutes, no nature sounds" sorted it. The voice is me on a Yeti mic, sorry about the NZ…
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sorted it. The voice is me on a Yeti mic, sorry about the NZ accent. The agents built me a teleprompter video where each line lit up right when I had to say it, basically karaoke for people with a product to sell. Few things I learned. Agents make the dumbest mistakes with complete confidence. They chopped my voiceover into 31 pieces using AI word timings, which think a word ends before it actually does, so
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