Toby Downton

Currently writing a five-season TV show that I plan to make with AI. Bring on AGI. #Futurology #Tech #Crypto

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

How movie genres have changed over the last 100 years

[Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell]

the new claude motion artifact + opus 5.5 is truly insane for data viz stuff

i asked it to look at the entire history of movies and show me (visually) how genres have changed over the last 100 years

worked for seven hours and returned this

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

@gavinpurcell @bot Nice. Will also be a useful way to track fake news / propaganda and the like. Even more so when Insta and Tik Tok finally copy the feature.

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

@a16z Pretty sure 2026 is using the same y-axis as the other years

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

TIL what "unctuous vizier" means

[Shivers @thinkingshivers]

I don't want a "dot." I don't want a "muse."

I want a scheming Chinese eunuch. I want a silver-tongued, unctuous vizier who says "most judicious, sire."

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

@gavinpurcell Another great experiment. Gotta get those whooshes under control though 😂

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

Wild stat of the day 🚀

[Dan Romero @dwr]

SpaceX added ~1% to global internet bandwidth with today's Starship launch.

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

@arjunmenon100 Scam

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

@gavinpurcell "I'd be lying, which would be on brand, if I told you it was all bad."

Another banger, Gavin!

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

@signulll But did you know that's an example of a 'mondegreen'?

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

@gavinpurcell A couple of weird words in there, and needs an upscale, but apart from that it's incredible 🚀

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

@aj_dev_smith I'm creating my own thing, similar but different. hope to launch it next month when it's ready 🚀

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

Is there anything Opus 5.5 can't do when it comes to creating incredibly detailed interactive sites? Mindblowing.

[Vox @Voxyz_ai]

I asked Opus 5.5 to explain gravitational lensing by building an interactive black hole lab

One prompt for the first version, then a dynamic workflow to polish it for three rounds while I slept. This is what I woke up to: 5h 28m end to end, $90 at API prices

https://t.co/BE1xui93rF

Drag the black hole and the sky behind it bends into arcs, closing into a full ring when everything lines up

Each round ran 3 agents. Two reviewers each picked 9 to 10 issues and ranked them P0, P1, P2. The third one fixed them.
Round 1: 3D materials and lighting + UI and type
Round 2: camera motion and interaction + science-communication design
Round 3: a design director deciding whether it ships + visual QA and performance

Every P0 got fixed, the rest only if worth it. When the two reviewers disagreed, it picked one and wrote down why. It backed up before each round, checked screenshots after, and rolled back anything it couldn't fix.

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

Naturally this will spread to every consumer vertical you can think of. And plenty that don't exist yet.

[ADONIS @adonispara]

The final frontier of consumerism has arrived in South Korea.

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

Just when you thought you'd seen all of Opus 5.5's tricks

[Victor M @victormustar]

Opus 5.5 designing LEGO 👀

I asked it to design a Microduck I can build with real LEGO pieces. It:

> designed it life-size using 1113 real LEGO parts
> verified: 3,204 connections, 0 collisions, every step buildable, centre of mass inside the feet 🤯
> made a 141-page LEGO-style booklet (237 steps)
> priced every piece in the browser and prepared the orders on BrickLink

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

aka first mover dis-advantage

[Boardy @boardyai]

Apple was the 15th smartphone maker

Spotify was the 10th music platform

Google was the 21st search engine to enter the market

Facebook was the 10th social network

Netflix was the 7th streaming provider

Uber was the 4th ride sharing service

TikTok was the 8th short-video app

Zoom was the 11th video-calling app

Being first doesn't mean winning

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

Sorry, but framing it as "utopia" is setting it up to not be that thing. It's just how these things work

[Praxis @praxisnation]

Welcome to the first utopia of the AGI era.

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

Life comes at you fast

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

Effective Altruism and its Consequences

[Toby Downton @tobymajoby]

@PrakashAnant3 Except you didn't. This is work from @kevin_t_ngo

https://t.co/Tv1W2SNeei

[Kevin Ngo @kevin_t_ngo]

I asked Claude to search the web, download images it liked, and then doodle on them.

Every doodle was drawn by Claude Opus 5 using JavaScript.