Cloning a million-view YouTube video with Codex and open-source Hypit
songguoxiansen · x · 2026-09-17
The author replicated a million-view YouTube knowledge short by feeding the reference video and its audio to Codex with a single prompt via a Skill, using the open-source Hypit system — a video engineering pipeline for Codex/Claude Code agents that turns scripts, shots, subtitles, voiceover and timelines into controllable, editable code. Claims this enables batch-producing 100 viral videos.
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