It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Em
A plugin that lets Claude Code watch videos; image + audio
177 votes, 67 comments. Claude doesn't natively accept video or audio input, so every time I wanted it to "look at a video" I'd have to screenshot…
AI video is moving beyond clip slop
AI companies don’t just want Hollywood using AI for video, but for everything.
TV on the internet before YouTube
Just a little note to get this all in one place. This was prompted by my comment here: On-demand was a thing before, but it was mediated through slow, glitchy cable and satellite boxes. There was also a thriving scene of RSS-delivered web TV shows. * The technology (RSS)
Quantizer support in Mediabunny v1.52.0 | Mediabunny
Mediabunny v1.52.0 adds quantizer-based video encoding for AVC, HEVC, VP9, and AV1, enabling constant-quality video encoding.
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities
Opinion: Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.
AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed social data to find out.
55 AI-Generated Video Statistics: Disclosure, Detection, and Trust
AI-generated video is projected to account for 10% of all digital video content in 2026
AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends - The JetBrains Blog
How many developers use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, JetBrains Junie, and others)? Evidence from the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026.
AI code and software craft - alex wennerberg
Much has been said about audio, video and text "slop": low-quality, AI-generated content that has proliferated on the internet since the release of publicly-accessible AI models. Garbage content has always existed online, but the novelty of AI is that it has made its generation orders of magnitude less labor-intensive. For anyone who lacks a discerning eye, or is doing some task where discernment simply does not matter, AI has become a sufficient replacement for human hands.
Stop Using OpenCode
If you don’t know what OpenCode is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript and the face is everything we have learned about security and systems software since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s. The creators describe it as an AI coding agent. As far as I can tell it’s the most popular open-source coding agent, and it currently has 161k stars on GitHub.
The cognitive impact of coding agents
A fun thing about recording a podcast with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical …
Short post this week — sharing a code sample for multi-part video upload!
Multi-part video upload for Bluesky
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