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You are literally just burning money away if you are using any of these AI video generation companies because all they are doing are just wrapping models AI and offering them to you at a premium price. See, one thing you have to understand is companies actually do not own the models. They are doing is just renting the API keys that you have direct access to as well. And in the most basic way that I can show you this is exactly the logic these companies follow to give you your video. They do have another structure that scaffolds a video for you, but that's also very simple to do. And if you go to Fal.ai, how you look up how much it costs you to use these models compared to what you're charging, you're saving yourself quite a bit of money. And you're not locked into a monthly or tokens or use tokens for ones that you didn't use at the end of the month. And I do believe some people are already starting to catch on, but how stupid simple it is to actually create this harness yourself. So you see here inside my UGC kit, I have an entire folder structure. I have my Python scripts, I have markdown files. So whenever I ask Gemini or Claude to work within that folder, it has all the instructions and tools it needs to get the video done. And here it is again, how you can do this inside of a codebase. So I highly a 1000% recommend doing it this way if you want to save yourself a ton of money instead of giving your money away to these big companies.
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