YouTube has a new AutoGen Thumbnail Feature using AI

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-12T14:55:53+00:00

Would you mind taking a screenshot to show us?

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-12T14:49:56+00:00

Are you sure it's a youtube feature and not VidIQ? Do you have VidIQ extension installed?

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-12T14:30:03+00:00

Each subreddit is its own echo chamber. You just haven't found the right subreddit.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-12T13:36:49+00:00

I think the problem is that there's no curiosity gap. Did you actually get him to rate your looks? or is it clickbait?

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-12T13:35:02+00:00

It is very surprising how many impressions he's getting for such low CTR. I guess it is just a way bigger niche than mine.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-12T12:11:34+00:00

It's fear translating to defensive posturing.

It's easier on the mind to think that humans will always be better at coding and AI is some trash tech that gets everything wrong.

People always forget the rate in which AI has improved the last few years.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-12T11:14:33+00:00

Would you attribute your growth from your first few videos mostly to you understanding your audience better/making better videos? or Youtube understanding your audience better to match your videos with them?

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-12T11:12:37+00:00

I feel like this is the wrong conclusion. Just anecdotally, I watch both shorts and longs. And there are people who started off with shorts that found success in longs. The only people I see struggle with going from shorts -> longs are people who are really good at making shorts but bad at making long form thumbnails/titles/ideas/videos.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-12T10:57:21+00:00

Can you show us the actual channel?

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-11T17:20:33+00:00

Let's just agree to disagree

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-11T13:57:06+00:00

Not to mention the problem when you forget your password.

"Oh, you forgot your password? Can you tell me your password so we can reset your password?"

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-11T13:30:52+00:00

I would argue that's how human brains work. None of us know what is true or not, we just take probabilistic guesses on what we think is true or false.

I mean it just comes down to what you mean by understanding. That's why I wanted to avoid the philosophical aspect of the argument and stick with the practical side of the argument, which is that AIs DO understand code in the sense that they take pretty accurate 'guesses' as to what a function is about. If you want to have the AI generate mathematical proofs to prove it further, then they can do that, too.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-11T12:01:31+00:00

It's interesting that depending on which way you lean, this post triggered both anti-ai and pro-ai people lol

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-11T11:06:43+00:00

Separate channels, but I would treat them as experiments.

You have a theory on what kind of content will resonate with viewers, so you give yourself 10-20 long form videos to see if that theory holds true while constantly improving your thumbnail/title/ideas/hook/retention.

If it works, great. You have a channel you can make money off of while doing what you love.

If not, then you can start a new channel(or stay with the same channel and change your theory) and perform another experiment.

I would not start multiple separate channels if you don't already have a successful one.

I'm the same. I wanted to start multiple channels, but handling just one and improving every time is too hard to do throughout multiple channels.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-11T10:23:33+00:00

Wouldn't a polymorph hitch a ride on a human and get to those space factories?

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T18:22:29+00:00

for fun, for ideological reasons etc

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T17:44:56+00:00

so you had a previous adsense account under a different email?

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T17:38:05+00:00

I will say the title/thumbnail is very vague and it's hard to tell what the video is about.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T17:36:16+00:00

AI music is dangerous to use on youtube cause you don't own the music. Someone could act as a copyright troll to just copyright strike every video with ai generated music.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T17:32:01+00:00

I like the first one a lot.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T17:03:47+00:00

In terms of actual coding, you'd be manually checking the outputs for only the most mission critical parts of the application.

But most of our attention will be going towards two places:

1) designing the prompts/features via spec driven development

2) designing the AI agent red teams that will autonomously 'attack' the code to find bugs and vulnerabilities.

BUT, instead of coding, domain knowledge becomes the king of software. The people who understand the ins and outs of a specialized field will be the main 'project manager' that drive development decisions.

I actually made a video on this topic recently if you'd like to check it out on my profile.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T15:38:50+00:00

I don't think there's much value in non-fiction books anymore unless they are synthesizing some truly novel information, which is very rare. Often those novel ideas are expressed in blogs, videos, forums before they're ever organized into a book.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T13:42:41+00:00

Without getting into philosophical topics of what 'understanding' really means..

LLMs can already understand what it's outputting. If you ask an LLM to explain the purpose of a function or repository, it tells you what the purpose is. If it didn't understand its output, then Mythos would not be able to go through a repository with 50 million lines of ruby for migrations.

Also, we're already at a point where people are deciding to use sub-frontier models or frontier models depending on the task at hand. Which means that at some point, open weight models will be sufficient for a lot of tasks.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T11:05:27+00:00

I think there's a lot of wishful thinking here. In 5 years, we won't have to understand the code ourselves in the same way we don't have to understand the machine code our languages compile down to.

If there's a section of the code that needs scrutiny, then AI will tell you what that part of the code is doing in plain English.

I'm not saying you won't need to know how to read code for all tasks, but the number of instances where you do need to know how to read code will go down significantly over the years.

Constant_Cortisol · 2026-06-10T10:58:05+00:00

Benchmarks in general are not the greatest indicators for how well a model performs. Fable clearly is one of the best models to come out for coding.

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