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Kākāpō Party

Blog · Watch/Read · (gathered 2026-09-30)

  • Simon Willison demonstrated a multi-AI workflow for creating a dynamic closing slide for his keynote, celebrating the 2026 kākāpō breeding season.
  • He first used Claude Opus 5.5 to generate an interactive HTML5 pixel art animation of kākāpō with confetti, based on image references and a detailed prompt.
  • To embed the interactive HTML in Keynote, he then leveraged a local Claude Code session, powered by Playwright, to automate browser clicks and record the animation into a 15-second video.
  • This showcases how specialized generative AI tools can be chained together to solve complex, multi-step creative and technical problems, such as converting interactive web content into presentation-ready video.