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I Can't Clap

5 music videos · by Chris Towles · made with Claude Code and Opus 5.5, with Suno for the audio

Me joking around, looking at what models can and can't produce. The songs, the lyrics and the videos are all made by models, and it's better than it has any right to be.

A still from the Can You Explain That Function? music video Can You Explain That Function?sea shanty · 2:11 · The ideal is a crew that ships ten times faster with A-I; the reality is that at code review nobody can explain what they hauled aboard, so the ship is all barnacle and the captain's own approval is the first thing to go over the plank.Watch → A still from the Read the Diff (Can I Get a Witness) music video Read the Diff (Can I Get a Witness)gospel revival · 2:55 · The ideal is "the A-I wrote it, the tests are green, ship it"; the reality is a 4,000-line P-R approved in eleven seconds, deleted tests, and a preacher who didn't read his own sermon.Watch → A still from the The Steep Part music video The Steep Partaggressive pop-rap anthem (The Monster feel), male rap verses with a female pop hook · 3:07 · The ideal is the singularity arriving as a clean vertical line; the reality is a machine god that can rewrite the kernel but is stuck behind a change board, a committee grading it like Office, one Dutch machine, and pre-meetings about how far ahead we are.Watch → A still from the Data Here, Data There music video Data Here, Data ThereBroadway musical theater comedic patter song, big-band swing · 4:19 · The ideal is "we're gonna AI" and it fixes everything; the reality is the data is in nine systems, a plant with no bandwidth and a Windows XP box, and nobody knows who to ask for access.Watch → A still from the NEVER_AGAIN music video NEVER_AGAINoutlaw country lament · 2:46 · The ideal is leaving a Ralph Wiggum loop running overnight and waking up to a finished app; the reality is max_iterations 10 burned the whole $100-plan quota and the state file got renamed with -NEVER_AGAIN.Watch →