https://www.cursor.com/ Cursor is a fork of VS Code which integrates an AI chat into your IDE itself. The AI has context of all your code files and you can highlight certain snippets and prompt the AI and do it all within your IDE without having to go to the browser and prompt and copy and paste.
We are doing the same thing for video editing. An AI chat will be built into your video editing software, and will have context of your video. You will be able to highlight certain snippets of your video and prompt the AI, and it will be able to analyze and generate automatic edits based on your prompts.
We're working on releasing an Alpha by later tonight. With that, you'll be able to analyze videos, ask the AI for suggestions or opinions, add dynamic text overlays based on certain objects or audio detected in the video, and transcribe the audio into subtitles.
For now, we're starting with basic adding text functionality and object/audio detection to prove to ourselves that this can work, but we plan to make Frame a feature-complete video editor with parity to things like K8ENlive or Davinci Resolve.
If you'd like to try out the Alpha when it's ready, please join our waitlist at https://frameapp.ai/ and I'll send you an invite as soon as it's ready!
As a Firefox fanboy, who will never yield regardless of what Mozilla may do, I think it's more realistic to say Chrome beat Internet Explorer in the end. Edge isn't built on Gecko, but KHTML.
It's accurate to say Firefox beat IE in that it freed the lock IE had on the web. By 2001 the majority of web browsers was IE6. Many parts of the web were being locked down behind IE/Windows specific features like ActiveX plugins and VBScript. Lots of intranet interfaces were built around IE6. It became as much a business staple as Microsoft Office.
By the end of the 90s both Microsoft and Netscape had kind of given up on browser engines being performant and relegated complex/demanding UIs to native plug-ins. Anyone not wanting to use plug-ins (Java included) to make a web app had to use frame-based SSR which was very tricky to get right. Even when the design and implementation were good performance of the browser sucked.
Firefox doubled down on performance of the rendering and JavaScript engines. Combined with XHR it was actually possible to make good web apps without using plug-ins of frame-y kludges. By not supporting ActiveX Firefox was also immune to whole classes of exploits ravaging IE at the time.
Firefox breaking IE's hold on the web set the foundation for the rise of Chrome. Breaking IE's hold on the web meant at release WebKit on iOS and Android was a useful browser engine that could handle real websites rather than a bunch of broken plug-in icons or being limited to WAP/"Lite" sites like all previous mobile devices.
A web requiring IE-only technologies like ActiveX and VBScript was never going to be accessible to mobile devices or non-Windows platforms.
Firefox beat Internet Explorer and Chrome, in turn, beat Firefox. In an alternate universe, Google could have backed Firefox instead of building their own browser, making Firefox number one. Mozilla was and still is heavily supported by Google.
Gecko may indeed be the reason why it didn't happen. Supposedly, it is an engine with a lot of baggage and hard to work with, which is the reason why there are so many KHTML/Webkit/Chromium/... based browsers and components and so few based on Gecko. Google wanted a fast browser to support their webapp ecosystem, they found it was better to use Webkit as a base. Firefox eventually caught up, but it took many years, and we still don't have an easily integrated Gecko-based engine.
Ya they are either astroturfed or... I think there's just a lot of like young junior JavaScript developers who really haven't built like a full program with multiple features by themselves.
I think they do some sort of like online tutorial and then they sort of like go through some sort of a course and then they get a job but they're only like doing like small pieces of like code writing themselves and I guess that's where like these editors help them some more.
You see more and more YC startups these days using TypeScript and Node as their stack, which is so strange to me.
But I agree with you. The AI stuff hasn't worked for me at all apart from some smarter autocomplete.
I've been programming for about 30 years and I get a lot of benefit from these tools.
My day job is mainly data science and data forensics and these LLM tools are fantastic for both as they excel at writing scripts and data processing tools. SQL queries, R plots, Pandas data frame manipulation, etc.
They also work well for non-trivial applications like these that I made with Claude Projects writing 90% - 95% of the code:
cursor and all the other ai code editors always write bad enough code that i have stopped using them completely.
i like the inline completions that things like supermaven provides or github copilot or even the jetbrains full line completion models.
Apart from that, I might use Claude or Chat GPT to talk about an idea, but I don't really use it much. I prefer to use my real life experience and skills.
Maybe if you're a junior developer, your projects might work with AI editors, but it's also the worst time for you to use them because you will never develop your own skills.
As a fancy autocomplete with a given pattern but with different things which pre-AI autocomplete didn't recognize that's where all these tools really shine but it's a very small subset.
The one thing which has changed my life though is like the Whisper voice input. I use it on the Mac using Mac Whisper and on my phone using the FUTO keyboard and it's just amazing. Like right now I'm typing all of this without any single edit. It just gets all of it correct.
It couldn't write a simple test for my typescript node system. Kept telling me credits left, login. I don't know who gets success from these tools and what they are building but none of them actually work for me. Yesterday there was Aide which I tried and found to be broken and so is this one.
That's surprising to me, usually it works quite well at this. Did you start codebuff in the root of your project so that it can get context on your codebase?
I can vouch for Bunny. They are a fantastic company with fantastic prices and fantastic reliability. I have used their CDNs and all of their products for more than 4-5 years now.
Same here. Bunny CDN plus Wasabi. It’s an excellent, inexpensive duo. Bunnny now has their own Object storage, but it wasn’t mature in time for me to. Hold around it a few years back.
Completely agree. We migrated our entire video library from Azure to Bunny. We went from paying over $2,500 in egress every month to about $200. It’s unreal how much Bunny has saved us.
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