Agentic Video Is Real and Here’s What You Should Try

When Opus 4.5 came in November of last year, it took about a month honestly till through the holiday break for people to really realize that it represented not just another incremental change, but in fact a step change in agentic coding capabilities. What happened after that set up the entirety of 2026, where agentic coding became by far the most important and most dominant AI use case, and set us all racing to figure out how we could bring coding into our normal knowledge worker lives. Opus 5.5 has been out for a similar amount of time, and people are once again discovering that it represents a more subtle but significant step change when it comes to not coding capabilities, but video editing. In today's episode, we're exploring both what changed and what video use cases people who haven't made videos before should be considering based on the new capabilities. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Robots and Pencils, C Data, and Blitzy. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And if you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. Today, we have an operator's cut that is very, very on trend. Whenever we get a new model, people race to see, based on benchmarks or their own experience, how it compares at doing the tasks that are their most important the ones that they do all the time. Sometimes, however, usually with the benefit of a few weeks or even a month or two of experience, people start to realize that a model, or more often a set of models released around the same time, have unlocked some new capability that allows them to do either something they were doing in a totally different way, or even something that they had never been able to do before. The quintessential example of this is the models around Opus 4.5, which was quickly followed by GPT 5.2, I believe, unlocking agentic coding in a real way. And making it so that those of us who were non coders weren't just using the simplified tools, but could actually just use the core models in their own native interfaces and in their own native harnesses to build and code things of increasingly higher complexity. For a lot of knowledge workers, the entire story of 2026 has been in figuring out how that new set of agentic coding capabilities was going to change their work. Over the past month, I have seen more and more people come to a determination that right now, thanks especially to Opus five point five, we're experiencing something similar with video editing. Now, already, in the last decade of TikTok and YouTube, more people than ever have been not just …