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That reminds me, a good while back I wanted to make a video about Wazewski's principle but found manim too frustrating to use, so I put the idea aside I can probably just bang it out with Claude now

Could you elaborate a bit further on this?

for "introductory" concepts (anything in a textbook), you can make an explainer video using frontier models right now with a prompt like: > let's make a math video explaining [X]! could you use manim, maybe choose a custom font for fun, and make a [N] minute video about it. i trust your judgment.

and that's not even getting to "artistic" uses of this. for example, you can ask a model to mix mathematical concepts with literary concepts to produce new ideas. or you can translate from theorems to songs. bsky.app/profile/shim...

does this actually work? my expectation would be that this results in visuals are optimized to look pretty rather than for pedagogical purposes, and that it would end up being harder to follow than a pure text writeup.