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Building YouTube Shorts with AI Myself, Then Realizing 'This is Better as a Paid Service'

My honest retrospective after trying to build YouTube Shorts-level content myself using my API key (Veo 3.1). I cover practical techniques for handling character drift, morphing, and jump cuts, and ultimately admit the ceiling of self-building in the face of benchmarks, concluding that 'paid services are more efficient'.