AI Video Isn’t Bottlenecked By AI. It’s Bottlenecked By ffmpeg.
An autonomous pipeline can now generate a short documentary and post it to TikTok in 30 seconds for 25 cents. But the real bottleneck isn’t the AI modelsβit’s the mundane video compilation step requiring massive cloud compute, and image generation eating 90% of the budget. The future of automated content is bottlenecked by boring infrastructure, not artificial intelligence.