The Next AI Video Tool Won’t Teach You Prompts. It Will Help You Ship Videos

I increasingly think the most important race in AI video is not who understands prompts better. That may sound odd. For the past two years, AI video has been almost inseparable from prompting: how to describe camera movement, how to specify style, how to keep characters consistent, how to avoid broken hands, fake text, and weird cuts. People who write better prompts do get better results. But that is also the problem. ...

May 18, 2026 · 9 min · cuigh

The Real Bottleneck Is Not Agents. It Is Work Worth Giving to Them

A line I saw this week was a little too accurate: the problem right now is not that we do not have enough agents. The problem is that we do not have enough work to give them. The original post came from Zara Zhang: https://x.com/zarazhangrui/status/2046662237306421608 I laughed when I first read it, not because it was exaggerated, but because it felt uncomfortably close to the truth. To avoid hiding the sources behind linked anchor text only, here are the primary source URLs up front: ...

April 24, 2026 · 10 min · cuigh