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Can you describe your experience building production tools with AI using MCP and cloud instances?

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Guy integrated PTZ cameras with MXL cloud instances using NMOS and BitFocus/Stream Deck controls; Claude generated the integration, making him the first to combine these new technologies. Demonstrates AI-enabled rapid prototyping of complex broadcast tools.

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40:27So you could pull up the screen of the little, of the bot. It's pretty wild. So you could see what it's doing. And to watch these things just take off and go, especially if you send five things. And yesterday when I asked Claude to do this thing, it sent 216 agents off at once. So, I mean, that's the level of stuff that you can do when you have a lot of data in a big project.

40:50But, yeah, I'm anxious to see what happens with this new release of Apple and all this on-device stuff because it's going to get exciting when every home has its own, you know, Mac Mini or whatever, and it has its own model on it. That's going to be cool because then ideally that cost is zero, you know. We just download it and we just ask it stuff and it's all on-prem.

41:10So that would be cool. Something to look forward to. So I've only been using ChatGPT. I'm only paying $20 a month. I feel weird saying that now, seeing you guys spend like $100, $200 a month. I just can't imagine spending that much on an AI. I'm sorry. Well, one thing, try doing this, Alexander. Try downloading the ChatGPT app on your Mac and then go into where it says Codex.

41:35And then actually have it build something or do something agentic where it takes over your computer and you'll watch your tokens just burn. The thing just did. Well, a lot of people don't realize that you could do it. But when you ask it to actually go through something and do something pretty hardcore, it's crazy. To see the agentic stuff where it just takes over your computer.

41:56Like when I was working on a Resolve project earlier this week, asking it to create a moments, the best moment. it doesn't know what the best moments of office hours were for the last week but it made its best they just added mcp support in the new yes i was doing i was doing some really cool stuff with that and you would be amazed i could probably pull it up if there's another question but basically i had

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