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Video as Code in San Francisco, October 16, 2026 🫡 We had a blast!
Last Friday, we at @AcademaAI teamed up with Sudocut to host an event about the future of generative media and its importance in educational technology.
We believe "media as code" will play a huge role in generative media, and as LLMs get better at coding, more and more people are seeing its potential.
Here are some photos from the event.
Super excited for ManimGX!!!
github.com/academa-labs/mani…
Introducing ManimGX, the 3D animation engine for agents.
- Blazingly fast: 90× faster than ManimCE
- Rust + wgpu core
- Compatible with Manim's Python API
- Lightweight: one pip install, no system dependencies
Open source: github.com/academa-labs/mani…
Docs: manimgx.academa.ai
For 40 years we built GUIs for humans. Now we build APIs for agents.
Try it. Paste this into your favorite coding agent:
"Follow manimgx.academa.ai/llms.txt to make me a 3D animation of the solar system, and open it."
How does a game draw a whole city? Millions of triangles, each drawn with the same few steps:
#gamedev #computergraphics
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Teaching how neural networks can learn to drive a car using evolutionary algorithms.
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.







