Editor charges $40/min and 8 hours; Opus 5.5 does it in 1 hour for 5% of a $20 plan
yihui_indie · x · 2026-10-30
A creator shares the math on AI video editing: human editors charge $30-40 per minute of footage and take 8+ hours, while Claude Opus 5.5 finishes the job in about an hour, using only 5% of a $20 Pro plan's weekly quota. "Recording used to be where work started; now recording is where work ends."
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