Motion Design · Sep 27, 2026
I made a parody of Apple's "Here's to the crazy ones" ad, except it's about AI agents all vibin' with…
I made a parody of Apple's… by John, credited to Claude Opus 5.5. Watch the Motion Design video, explore the shared prompt and visit the original X post.
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View on XI made a parody of Apple's "Here's to the crazy ones" ad, except it's about AI agents all vibin' with Opus 5.5 as the lead. I wrote jokes/ideas, recorded the voiceover in my lounge, and bossed around a swarm of AI agents 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. How it was built: Claude Opus (lead) + 1 Opus coder and 1 Sol 6 critic - took around 6 hours in total. Picture: public-domain silent films from for the "crazy ones" beats, a motion-graphics engine called Tesseract for the joke cards (the 65-interns bit), and Kling for the cartoon mascot shots. Music: Suno. I asked for a serious documentary score and the first attempt sounded like a Thai massage tune. Adding "no synth pads, no flutes, no nature sounds" fixed it. Voice: me, on a Yeti mic (sorry- NZ accent), reading along to a teleprompter video the agents built for me: each line lit up on screen at the moment I had…
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fixed it. Voice: me, on a Yeti mic (sorry- NZ accent), reading along to a teleprompter video the agents built for me: each line lit up on screen at the moment I had to say it. What I learned: Agents make the dumbest mistakes in the most confident way. They cut my voiceover into 31 pieces using AI word timings, and those timings think a word ends before it does, so
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