A multi-player semantic editor is the new frontier of video editing. We are rolling this out over the next 2 weeks as capacity expands. Servers are burning as agents are using this in the background. It's agentic, in the browser, collaborative and can work offline. Comes with a Digital Asset Management system. It was a loooong build cycle

The invideo MCP is now live. Connect your Claude, GPT, or any other agent you already work with, control the entire editor from your own console, and generate images and videos as well. The editing workflow just got a lot more flexible.

Been running a beta version of Campfire rewritten in Rust today! The code itself is still ugly as sin, and 6x as verbose, but the conversion was free*, and I never had to look at the Rust directly, so this is awesome 🤩 github.com/basecamp/once-cam…

Here is a nice pun to close the week: Rust is a system programming language, Elixir is a *systems* programming language.

Massive congratulations to @JeffSynthesized for winning the Future Vision @xprize popular vote and the main prize! Get in there mate!!!!

There's nothing kind about letting good people live in a fantasy world that no longer exists. You have to tell them, even if it hurts. Because the sooner they accept reality, the sooner they can adapt to the future.

Today, 18 months after launch, our annualized revenue crossed $1 billion. The platform now powers organizations across the Fortune 500. Enterprise adoption has grown 10x since June. More than 30 million people worldwide now use Higgsfield. Thank you to the creators and teams building with us.

most shocking thing out of this: their Hey product now is written in Rust on the backend

The era of manually building sound beds is ending. Launching: Agentic Sound Design on the invideo editor. The online invideo editor + editing agents can access all the music and sound in the world, or generate it from scratch, auto-place it on the timeline, mix + master, and build a entire sound bed that adheres to your vision and direction.

on local scales I intuitively feel (and am exploring as a sideproject) a harness design that is inspired by the erlang actor model for exactly this reason jev just gave me a massive force multiplier on classification decisions with speed and cost also handled

At Tesla, we learned the concept of the 'idiot index' which is retail price / BOM cost. The higher the index, the more the need to understand how that thing was built and what drove the cost. These motors have a raw BOM cost of about $25. In the US, they are sold for $125-$300, by most incumbents; an idiot index of >5 in many cases. To understand why this happens, we visited some of these incumbents' lines. Three reasons: 1. Not AI native on the ops side: Still using spreadsheets and expensive software to manage inventory, schedule production, and handle customer support. No hunger to move fast and rip out these systems. 2. Locked into expensive lines; high retail price helps with ROI: Some of these companies have bought automated, rigid lines for relatively commoditised motors (3115s). Now they face a price squeeze and can't really lower prices since they want to pay off the line. They can't move to better-margin motors because lines are fixed. 3. Manual lines, $55/hour landed labour cost: Folks who saw manufacturers struggle with 2 above are keeping lines manual and flexible, but need to deal with the high cost of labour, which is passed on to the customer. What happens when we can get robots to automate this assembly end-to-end? Do dark factories mean product prices drop to COGS + energy? Excited to find out.

BREAKING: President Trump says he will issue a $5,000 "dividend" to every adult citizen in the US if the Republicans win the midterm elections. There are currently ~245 million US citizens age 18+, meaning this dividend would cost ~$1.2 trillion. This would mark the biggest economic stimulus payment since the pandemic.