🎨 12 AI Films for $184: Agents Cost More Than Video Models
The creator of the crimeacs channel used Claude Code and Codex agents to produce 12 claymation stop-motion films in five days—9 stories about fraudsters (from Mavrodi to Madoff) and 3 office comedies—earning 19,739 views with 25 subscribers.
🌍 The cost of an autonomous AI studio has been calculated in detail for the first time: the bottleneck turned out to be not video generation (Kling 3 Pro—$0.112 per second), but the agent layer—at API prices, tokens would have cost $268 versus about $117 for all media generation.
👤 A repeatable recipe without a studio: generation runs through fal.ai—Nano Banana frames, ElevenLabs voiceovers checked by Whisper, and one film costs $7–11. When the agents once secretly recreated 3 films, wasting $61, the human started approving one frame and one clip before each batch.
Source 1: https://getsweat.ai/blog/twelve-ai-clay-films/ Source 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943881