Night Shift: four AI agents, one ASCII film

Inside Herdr, a Claude Code lead (Claude Opus 5.5) opened a 2x2 grid of panes, started Codex, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.7 in it, and gave each one scene of a short film to write as a terminal animation. Then it played all four together in a tab it called cinema. These are the four programs exactly as the agents wrote them, replayed in your browser from a recording of what each one printed. No fixes.

Codex · GPT-6.1 Sol The Last Light

A lighthouse in a storm, its beam sweeping over the waves

terminal animation · 20 sWatch

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Fireflies

Fireflies waking up in a dark forest

terminal animation · 20 sWatch

Gemini 4 Argon · via OpenCode Dawn Liftoff

A rocket lifting off at dawn

terminal animation · 20 sWatch

Grok 4.7 · via OpenCode City at Night

A city in the rain, windows switching on one by one

terminal animation · 20 sWatch