Vibe Coding
Tip: point a coding agent at the installed Blender app and it will write .blend files and render movies
Simon Willison posted on 2026-09-05 that getting Blender working with coding agents on macOS needs no MCP server and no special setup: a prompt like "Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle" is enough. Frontier models drive Blender's Python API well enough to emit .blend files you can then edit by hand, render stills, and produce movies by rendering an image sequence and stitching it with ffmpeg. The technique generalizes to any Mac app with a scriptable Python API, and iterating with follow-up prompts ("make it a whole lot better") is the working loop.
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