The future is in code

What happened

Sourany Phomhome posted an animated short film on LinkedIn. A tiny pianist wakes up beside a cup of coffee, discovers a synthesizer and plays until sunrise. Such a film usually takes animation software and many hours of work.

The post says: ONE HTML file under 1 MB. HTML is a plain text file that a web browser turns into pictures and sound. It goes on: No Blender or video editor and Music generated entirely with code. It was made for fun with Claude Fable 5.2.

What it means

Code is a set of instructions for a computer, written in words. You write: a desk here, a lamp there, a character here. The computer reads it and draws every frame itself. Nobody draws anything by hand. Music works the same way: instead of recording sound, you write down the notes and the computer plays them.

A simple example. Want the mug blue instead of white? In ordinary software you fix it scene by scene. In code you change one word and the computer does the rest.

I did the same

My film is 33 seconds long. The character is me: a green head with headphones, floating above a desk. The room, the mug, the lamp, the captions and the music are all code. Everything you see and hear apart from the voice exists only as text that the computer reads and turns into a film.

The whole film is described by 414 lines of text, 28 KB in total. The music comes from a script of 76 lines with the notes written out. The finished film weighs 16 MB, more than 500 times the instructions it came from.

The only part made by artificial intelligence is the voice: the cloned voice of Mario Połeć, one of the founders of Agent CS.

Why it matters

Code can be fixed with one sentence. Change one word and the film is made again, with no reshoot. From one set of instructions you can make a hundred versions: another language, another colour, another length.

That is why I think the future is in code. Not because everyone will become a programmer. Because it is enough to describe what you want to see, and the computer does the rest.