#claude-code

Claude Code has a mascot named Claw'd which features in all the feature announcement posts. I find these animations extremely cute and wondered if it is possible to create such animations for myself.

I showcased before how coding agents can actually be used as general agents to do things outside of coding - like infographic video generations. I also recently subscribed to Google AI Pro plan and have been using the Gemini CLI with Gemini 3.1 Pro to do some frontend design changes for FanMeter.

So, I thought why not test both these agents to see which one can generate the better animation. I launched both of these agents in their respective YOLO modes (--dangerously-skip-permissions for Claude Code and --yolo for Gemini CLI) and gave this prompt:

Create a pixel art animation GIF of a 26 year old guy who spends his week teaching AWS classes (offline), working fulltime (WFH) as a DevOps engineer and is also addicted to AI software development (Claudoholic). High FPS, high definition. Not less than 10 seconds.

Gemini was the first one to generate it and it gave me this. I'd give it 4/10 at best:

Claude took a while and gave me the much better output. An impressive 7/10:

Interestingly, because I use Claude as my daily driver, it knew about how I got the idea of Fan Meter and added the part where I wake up in the middle of the night to build something

When Anthropic announced Claude Skills in October 2025, Simon Willison said this in his blog post:

Claude Code is, with hindsight, poorly named. It’s not purely a coding tool: it’s a tool for general computer automation. Anything you can achieve by typing commands into a computer is something that can now be automated by Claude Code. It’s best described as a general agent. Skills make this a whole lot more obvious and explicit.

While I had this in mind, using Claude Code for music is something that didn't come cross my mind before. Josh Cohenzadeh got Claude Code to write an original song, an original EDM song, original rock song with vocals, and an original album -- actually getting it to create an audio file for each using one-shot prompts. He didn't mention the model he used in his blog post but I assume it is Opus 4.5 with extended thinking (the transcripts he added to the post had thinking blocks).

Reading the blog post made me realize that I am still blinded by Claude Code's poor naming because I haven't used it for anything other than building software. I use it everyday and I am aware that it is not "just a coding tool", yet I haven't really of thought of doing anything with it.

So, I thought why not get it to create a video. Specifically, a bar chart race video illustrating the most popular girl names in Telugu states from 1950s - 2020s (because why not?). So that's what I did. I started a claude code session with --dangerously-skip-permissions and gave it the following prompt (heavily inspired from Josh's prompts):