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Fast-moving video explaining recursion with nine genre shifts
How do you explain recursion? This one is pretty fun. I had Claude Opus 5.5 make: "A video explaining recursion, where every explanation about recursion has a radically different video style, make this self-referential & clever & fast moving." Nine genre shifts, one prompt... https://t.co/8mxTwwRifl
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) Sep 26, 2026
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A video explaining recursion, where every explanation about recursion has a radically different video style, make this self-referential & clever & fast moving." Nine genre shifts, one prompt... https://t.co/8mxTwwRifl
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