So a client of mine calls me up a few weeks ago and asks: "Hey, can we add a button to our dashboard that just auto-generates short promo videos from our product feed?" I said "sure, shouldn't be hard" without thinking. Big mistake. Realized right after hanging up that I had zero clue how to programmatically generate actual video from static product images and text without renting some monstrous GPU cloud. Turns out, I was overthinking it. I didn't need to render anything...