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Hotel Lobby AI Explained: Where It Came From and Three Ways to Make a Video

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In mid-to-late September 2026, videos of two performers against an orange backdrop started spreading across social media. Some featured fictional characters; others featured animals. The cast changed, but the background, music, and movements looked familiar. One version featuring characters from Breaking Bad had around 324.5K likes when the screenshot was taken. Another, starring two cats, had roughly 7.8 million views and 73K likes on X. An AI recreation featuring Breaking Bad characters. Source: Glorify on TikTok. Another take on the same performance. Source: Amy on TikTok. The two-cat version shared by @ogfeitoza on X. Social metrics reflect the figures shown in the screenshots. The interest also showed up on Google. In the worldwide, past-year Web Search view on Google Trends, interest in “hotel lobby ai” rose sharply in late September, reached its peak for the selected period, and then declined. Source: Google Trends, worldwide, past year, Web Search. The chart shows relati...

A Practical Guide to AGENTS.md: Writing Instructions for Codex

AI helped draft and revise the Chinese original, then translate and adapt it into English. Why should Codex users know about AGENTS.md? If you use Codex to build projects, or do a lot of vibe coding, some of these problems may sound familiar: You're a product manager who wants to discuss the user experience and possible solutions, but the AI keeps getting into technical details. You only want to talk through an idea, but the AI starts changing code. By the time you realize it's going in the wrong direction, there's work to undo. Your project already has a module that does the job, but the AI builds another one. The project gets messier with every change. You just told it not to change a particular part of the project. In the next chat, you have to say it all again. You ask it to change a button, and it also changes the nearby text and layout. Your project already has shared components, styles, and coding conventions, but the AI's changes don't follow them. ...