Opus 5.5 makes a 15-second motion design showreel in plain Claude Code
A single prompt had Opus 5.5 spend about 40 minutes in standard Claude Code producing a 15-second motion design showreel with sound effects, and the author says it barely used any quota.
OPUS 5.5 MADE THIS 15-SECOND MOTION DESIGN SHOWREEL, SOUND INCLUDED, IN PLAIN CLAUDE CODE Stephan Livera gave it one line on max effort: make a showreel that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, go all out. 1.9M+ views later, his answers under the post: Just standard Claude Code, no skills About 40 minutes Claude made the sound effects in the same pass He was on the $20 plan and doesn't think it burned 1% of the weekly allowance The article below explains why the bill is that small. Opus 5.5 is $4 / $20 per million tokens against $5 / $25 on Opus 5, and cache reads dropped to $0.20 per million. It lists seven settings to change on day one, starting with effort, because the default went from high to medium Polymarket has Anthropic still on top of the Arena text leaderboard at the end of October at 88.5¢. Google is at 9.3¢, OpenAI at 2.4¢ http://polymarket.com/event/which-company-has-the-best-ai-model-end-of-october?via=atlas
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