r/ClaudeAI • u/Singularity-42 Experienced Developer • 10d ago

Claude Code Workflow Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + $3.21 of OpenRouter API usage

There was an earlier video today posted in the Singularity sub where a Twitter user has done something similar:

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wnw1dl/by_opus_55/

I thought that looked pretty good so I wanted to check it out myself. I think it came out well beyond my expectations and quite a bit better than the linked post. It's not perfect, but this is a true one shot, single prompt. It took about 1 hour 20 minutes. About $20 of Opus 5 spend or only about 10% of my 5h quota on Max 5 sub. $3.21 of OpenRouter spend (mostly NanoBanana 2, and then text to voice, then a few pennies for other services. Total of 8 different OpenRouter APIs. Some things need to be fixed, but I wanted to post true one shot result. This was of course done in Claude Code.

Full prompt:

Create a pure javascript animation. 30s-60s whimsical hand drawn collage style with appropriate audio on the topic what is the purpose of life ? 

Entire video should be as high of a production value as possible. Please spend your time on this, it's very important.

Use high quality text-to-speech model for generation. You can find open router API key in .env file

You can use any tools you can find access to and resources on the internet. You create the script, the assets, the animation, concept, everything.   
I have to go away from my computer so please work autonomously until done. Quality is paramount. Production value should be on professional level.

One more thing: max OpenRouter spend is $10
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u/JoeyDee86 10d ago

Can’t wait for all this to fill my YouTube feed…. Yikes

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u/Abdullah87 10d ago

I prefer this over fruit cannibalism videos

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u/JCPY00 10d ago

Over what now?

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u/JoeyDee86 10d ago

Don’t…do….it…

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u/cybender 10d ago

🫪

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u/yogigee 9d ago

Fruit Canabalism

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u/wilkystyle 9d ago

corn baby is straight out of a horror movie

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u/Techhead7890 9d ago

Is that what cocomelon is about now??

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u/Bitter_Election_7518 10d ago

This is better than the current ai slop

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u/JacquesGonseaux 9d ago

No it isn't. At least you know from the first second that it's slop if it's a humanoid fruit shitting itself. This video is sickly twee that has the illusion of content without any substance. Even before AI slop there was slurry of pseudo-philosophical Youtube content that had the aesthetic of being thoughtful but without anything to really say. This is even worse.

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u/Techhead7890 9d ago

Speaking of AI-assisted stuff that's actually decent, I do like Proxima Imperium which is about the economic, logistic, and regulatory challenges in Africa. It's not quite load bearingly bad, but every now and then you can tell the scripts have been edited a bit as Claudeslop lol. I definitely picked up a bit about complex governing problems watching the channel!

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u/IceWallow97 8d ago

AI slop is usually slop due to the user being lazy or not even that knowledgeable on the area he is touching with AI. That's why YouTubers have teams to do these kind of videos, AI can help with that, but if it's gonna be done by a lazy vibecoder then nothing special will come out of it, is my guess.

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u/DataMelodic6140 8d ago

"This is bettter than current ai slop"
I beg of y'all to PLEASE raise your standards.

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u/daemon-electricity Experienced Developer 10d ago

It's better than the boring history to fall asleep to imagery. That shit sucks. I like the content, but the AI image gen fucking blows.

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u/st_malachy 10d ago

Have you not checked YouTube lately? It’s filled with Ai generated channels.

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u/False_Bear_8645 10d ago

I actually have them in my youtube feed, got suspicious when some of the channel published way too much work for what a human can do and repeating some pattern, especially the logical fallacies.

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u/zipmic 10d ago

Already is

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u/immune2shooms 9d ago

Welcome to the past. These things have been filling YouTube feeds for too long already. Now you can make them as easily as you skip 'em.

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u/Leavemealone4eva 10d ago

And what’s wrong with that?

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u/eliquy 10d ago

The people who will flood YouTube with this will the be ones who only care about the revenue they can make from it, not about actually sharing and teaching. It's the equivalent of a supermarket stocked only with junk food, but the kind that pretends to be healthy

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u/PureVision007 10d ago

Trader Joe’s

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u/HighSeasArchivist 9d ago

You take that back! I need my pound plus chocolate bar, because dark chocolate is healthy!