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  • I'm not overly impressed with those videos. They simply move too quickly for someone who isn't already familiar with the subject. There simply isn't enough time to read what's on each slide. Perhaps this could be fixed trivially with a prompt, but just going on the example videos, I'm not sure this is all that useful.

    Now that said, it is wild that in just a few years we've got AI making videos like this!

    by freedomben
  • These presentations, like most LLM output, look good but aren’t very informative. The Jev one kept repeating the same point (Jev is by TypeSafe AI, Jev is faster and cheaper) - I bet I could condense it into like 4 slides. The linear one wasn’t entirely clear: it seems you create issues and assign them to agents, and create gantt charts / timelines? Although https://linear.app isn’t much clearer.

    But: I think as LLMs fully generate more and more complicated things, we’ll start discovering ways to make them generate with good user control.

    by armchairhacker
  • These explainer videos are garbage, whether done by humans or not. Just like those crappy Netflix "documentaries". Don't get me wrong, it's impressive, but it's just a more automated way of outputting low effort, low quality content
    by Almondsetat
  • These aren't even that good in comparison to the stuff being posted on Reddit and twitter/X.

    Some of the stuff I've seen is mindblowingly impressive in how they've captured quality creative decisions, and how the models can reason about visually appealing designs.

    It understands things like continuity, themes, facial expressions, cultural memes/references, symbolism, etc. And it generates things using a lot of multi-modal behavior by using 3d, images, etc.

    Some really incredibly impressive stuff.

    by preommr
  • This is the next level of PowerPoint presentations. I just had a look at the example videos. Really, what is gained here?

    Back in the days, when I made websites or home pages for clients, my first question was: "What's your message you want to tell with your website?" Sometimes the client couldn't answer this, because he simply wanted a website for the sake of having a website. But a website without a message is meaningless more or less.

    by Aldipower
  • Like many of us, I've been hobbying away on some SaaS that wraps an LLM. But I often worry, isn't this just adding buttons to an LLM call? What's the real value here? Quick money grab and wait for copies? Or do my 20 years of saas and business development actually make my SaaS better then others?
    by neals
  • Explainer videos are dark patterns that replaced written howto documents in order to serve ads. Not seeing them pop up any more in search results is one of the few positive outcomes of Google switching to AI-first search results.
    by LastTrain
  • Here are a couple examples from r/ClaudeAI:

    Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + $3.21 of OpenRouter API usageClaude Code Workflow

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wogab3/

    Jaw literally dropped. I ran the prompt from the "Made entirely with Opus 5.5" post on my own project. Here's what Claude Code made on its own for about $4.Claude Code Workflow

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wovwao/

    by kakugawa

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