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Re:Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing by HanClinto on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @02:42PM (#45984109)
I absolutely love your approach of "expert tools". If I understand your approach, you aren't just feeding a video into a multimodal LLM and asking it "what is the bounding box of the optimal caption region?" -- you have built tools with discrete algorithms (using traditional CV techniques) that use things like object detection boxes + traditional motion analysis techniques to give "expert opinions" to the LLM in the form of tool calls -- such as finding the regions of minimal saliency + minimal movement to be the best places for caption placement.

If the LLM needs to place captions, it calls one of these expert discrete-algorithm tools to determine the best place to put the captions -- you aren't just asking the LLM to do it on its own.

If I'm correct about that, then I absolutely applaud you -- it feels like THIS is a fantastic model for how agentic tools should be built, and this is absolutely the opposite of AI slop.

Kudos!

Re:Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing by adishj on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @03:29PM (#45984682)
thanks for the comment, thats exactly right

we're using a mix of out-of-the-box multimodal AI capability + traditional audio / video analysis techniques as part of our video understanding pipeline, all of which become context for the agent to use during its editing process