HexLab

HexLab · explainer films

How AI coding agents really work

Minute-long hand-drawn films. Every fact checked against real docs, code and logs.

Watch the pilot

Meet Hex: he's curious, and he goes and finds out.

Hex waving hello

What makes it different

Real facts, no fiction

Every number comes from docs, the code or our own logs.

About a minute each

Short films you can watch between two prompts.

Drawn in code

Hand-drawn characters, with every scene built in code and timed to the voice.

Seasons

  • Hex in the lab next to a board comparing two turns side by side, with a cache jar on top of the model box
    Pilot

    Prompt caching

    Hexthe host 7 eps + summary Out now
  • Dex pointing at the Attention page with a P0 card while Hex sits by the terminal
    Season 1

    The Attention Queue & a2a

    Dexnew in the lab 9 films Coming soon
  • Quad H presenting a context-window diagram labelled 1M tokens, Hex at the terminal
    Season 2

    Context windows

    Quad Hnew in the lab 9 films Coming soon
  • Bob with a coffee mug next to a board showing the model and the harness, Hex shrugging
    Season 3

    Tools, MCP & skills

    Bobnew in the lab 9 films Coming soon
  • Dex and DataSherpa next to a count_tokens board showing 14 tokens, Hex at the terminal
    Season 4

    Tokens & the bill

    DataSherpanew in the lab 9 films Coming soon
  • rbkpwnz, who leads Season 5
    Season 5

    Subagents

    rbkpwnznew in the lab Coming soon

The crew