Ben Ankiel

Since I was a kid, I wanted to be in Star Wars. Today, I finally am. May the Fourth be with you. #starwars

yes yes yes

@michellechen does a mac mini count as ai infra

people not operating ai infrastructure seem to love commenting on ai infrastructure

@RayFernando1337 @thsottiaux @ajambrosino i need this

@thsottiaux @ajambrosino Be able to use it from my iPhone :)

Now that the Codex app is close to being the super app. What should the super duper app do?

Since I was a kid, I wanted to be in Star Wars. Today, I finally am. May the Fourth be with you. #starwars

@konstipaulus sounds great!

@benankiel yeah, that’s definitely part of it but the bigger focus is on a more modern, context-aware UX so instead of showing everything at once (like traditional editors), it surfaces the right actions when you need them

video editing is stuck in 2005, time for something new introducing diffusion the first infinite canvas for video and motion graphics like figma, but for editing

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To add myself standing next to the Mandalorian, I used Nano Banana Pro. However, the lighting in the output didn't match the scene, so I ran that image back through NBP to fix it. After that was done, I used Happy Horse to animate it. Happy Horse likes concise prompts: --- Camera slowly dollies in towards the characters as it slowly pans up and to the right slightly. The man in armor takes a step or two in place as if getting ready.

@MatthewBerman looks like fun!

DeepSeek V4 Flash running on the DGX Station.

Using AI is like gambling. Especially with video. Prompt in, pull the lever, video out. So I made an AI short film about it. And here's how to make your own👇

@konstipaulus lfg

@benankiel You won’t be disappointed, no nodes.

Finally made it back from the great lock-in of 2025. Quick recap of what happened, and why we completely ditched building "Cursor for video editing." After working on the product every day for 2 years, I realized that with everything we’d learned, I would build something completely different today. The sidebar-first UX is becoming obsolete. Even Cursor is moving users toward their agent orchestration environment. Meanwhile, interfaces are becoming more dynamic and need to integrate generated content natively. The video editing UX we inherited from Premiere and DaVinci hasn’t fundamentally changed in decades. It wasn’t designed for agentic workflows or video generation. So we questioned nearly every NLE assumption and rebuilt the editing UI from first principles. At first, I thought we could migrate our old engine. Eventually we realized it would be faster to rebuild everything from scratch. So we locked in. Launching a brand new product in less than 24 hours. Can’t wait to show you.

@ingi_erlingsson you may be right

@benankiel I hear abs are overrated

Another test - what I love about this approach is that because there’s no masking involved, the model only replaces what needs to be replaced, so things like the arms and legs in this one stay as they were originally

@jasondoesstuff love the aesthetic!

Fun weekend things I could never do without AI... 1️⃣ Generated these character "rooms" with 🍌 NBP 2️⃣ Used Seedance 2 to animate them in 4sec loop 3️⃣ Asked Claude to make them hover animations Maybe 30 mins of work total? So fun! 🤩