Ten dollars of tokens renders a literary opening as 5,500 lines of 3D

Claim

Andrej Karpathy gave Opus 5 the opening of The Lord of the Rings and $10 of tokens and got 5,500 lines of three.js rendering the scene, moving custom worlds from no one would ever do this to sure, why not, it's roughly free.

Reported metric: $10 / 5,500 lines

Reporting date: 2026-08-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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