I'm an ML engineer/founder and I'm frankly amazed what has happened to the promo/intro video industry.. A few years ago this video that I just made in about 2 days would have required serious funding and whole group of 3D artists, cinama crew, voice actors..
Forget what the video is about. Focus on the fact that I - a non-pro - made this in 2 days for $100.
What will this do to dozens and dozens of jobs?
On the one hand I never felt more empowered as a bootstrapper, on the otherhand it doesn't taka a lot of thinking and foresight to start to fear my demise as a builder, coder, ML engineer.
How are you doing in 2026? Do you have friends who already lost their jobs?
Oras•3w ago
Not to undermine your effort, but how did you get the impression that creating a video like this would cost $1M?
bayeslaw•3w ago
Ok maybe I'm off by an order of magnitude. That's still 3 orders of magnitude of cheaper.
bayeslaw•3w ago
Forget what the video is about. Focus on the fact that I - a non-pro - made this in 2 days for $100.
What will this do to dozens and dozens of jobs?
On the one hand I never felt more empowered as a bootstrapper, on the otherhand it doesn't taka a lot of thinking and foresight to start to fear my demise as a builder, coder, ML engineer.
How are you doing in 2026? Do you have friends who already lost their jobs?