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Re:Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor by sxmawl on Thursday February 26, 2026 @04:07PM (#47172011)
happy that you liked our approach! also, i think it's a better idea to just give agent these tools and let it figure out its course of actions than giving it a specific workflow to work on - it seems like the world keeps reminding us the bitter lesson [http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html] more frequently these days

will definitely check the XML exports, ty :)

Re:Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor by barefootford on Thursday February 26, 2026 @08:49PM (#47175274)
Theoretically I agree, but practically without guidance agents aren't really able to edit video ATM. Without hand holding Claude will just call ffmpeg and look at a few frames.
Re:Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor by sxmawl on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:27PM (#47175599)
yeah we just ask a lot more questions to user to begin with