AI Daily · 2026-09-27

Simon Willison demonstrated an automated pipeline at WeAreDevelopers: he fed three kākāpō photos into Claude, which generated an HTML5 canvas pixel party animation with confetti, then had Claude Code use Playwright to click through the page and record a 15-second video. The workflow shows multimodal generation combined with browser automation and screen recording under an AI coding agent. By publishing the transcript and Playwright script, he highlights how such agents can move from creative output to reproducible engineering artifacts.

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⭐⭐ [Other] Kākāpō Party

Simon Willison gave a closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America. He fed three kākāpō photos from Google image search into Claude and prompted it to build an HTML5 canvas pixel-art animation of at least 20 kākāpō jumping around at a party with confetti, which produced a web page. He then asked a local Claude Code session to record that HTML file as a 15-second video, specifying that it had to load the page in a browser and click a few times to trigger the confetti, with clicking starting only after 3 seconds and spread across the clickable area. Claude Code used Playwright to produce the video, and he shared the transcript along with the short Playwright script.