Powermove ships an open-source video editor whose features are written on demand by AI agents
threepointone · x · 2026-09-19
- Iterative Computer released Powermove, a free, open-source video editor where "the app itself is the thing you edit."
- The kernel is intentionally tiny: timeline, effects, inspector, and the UI all live as extensions on top.
- Ask the built-in agent for a feature and it writes a new extension the same way the core team built the rest of the editor — an attempt to compress After Effects' twenty years of plugins into a prompt.
- Sunil Pai and others amplified it as the right shape for agent-native apps.
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