I Fired My Video Editor
Opus 5.5 edited a full reel start to finish (captions, zooms, real screenshots), plus a free Vercel scanner that took my agency site from 66 to 100 on AI agent visibility.
the short answer
Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work, costs 40% less than Opus 5, and is over 30% faster. Paired with a free editing skill, it edited a full reel with captions, zooms, and real screenshots. Vercel's free is-agentic.com scanner checks whether AI agents can find and read your site and gives fix prompts for each failure.
key takeaways
- Opus 5.5 is 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5, over 30% faster, and has higher usage limits on paid plans.
- With a reference-based editing skill, Claude can add captions, zooms, real tool screenshots, and GIFs to a raw talking-head clip.
- AEO (answer engine optimization) is how well AI agents can see and read your page, and many agents do not run JavaScript.
- is-agentic.com runs 100+ checks, scores your site out of 100, and gives a copyable Claude fix prompt for each failed check.
Opus 5.5 is the best model I've ever used, and it fired my video editor. Here's what it actually did, plus the free Vercel scanner that showed me my agency's website was invisible to AI agents.
Claude's model is so good, I fired my video editor
I always edit my own videos, so I guess Claude fired me.
Anthropic released its newest addition to the Opus and Sonnet family two weeks ago. I know, another week, another "revolutionary" model. Here's what actually matters: Anthropic says Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work, costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, and answers over 30% faster. They also raised the usage limits on the paid plans, so I'm hitting the wall way less.
Cool numbers, but I don't care about benchmarks. I care about what it can do for me.
A month ago I tried editing my reels with Claude, and it didn't come close to what I saw from Astra (more on that in GPT-6 Astra and swipe-clean). This time it did:
Watch the reel edited start to finish by Opus 5.5
That reel was edited by Opus 5.5 and a skill created by @albert.olgaard. The skill lives inside Albert's free Skool community. I'm not affiliated at all, it's just really good free value: join his community here.
Here's my workflow:
- Record the talking head.
- Drop the raw clip in a folder.
- Give Claude reference videos and tell it to cook.
It wrote the captions, added the zooms, pulled up real screenshots of every tool I mentioned (the actual website or repo, not some AI slop mockup), and slid them in behind my head with a few GIFs on top.
This is the first AI video editor I can actually trust to deliver. The old models could follow an editing skill. This one acquired an editing taste that's better than mine.
Your website is invisible to AI agents (and it's losing you clients)
When someone asks ChatGPT or Claude "who's a good AI agency for [insert any niche ever]", does your website even show up?
People don't Google everything like they used to, especially now that personal assistant bots like Muse and Grok Bot do the research instead of people. That's why AEO matters more than ever. AEO stands for answer engine optimization: pretty much how well AI can see a page. I just redid my entire agency site for it.
Here's the free tool that made it stupid easy (not sponsored): is-agentic.com.
It's a scanner from Vercel. You paste in your URL and it runs 100+ checks on whether AI agents can actually find, read, and use your site, then gives you a score out of 100.
Mine was 66. Not great.
Almost my entire site was invisible without JavaScript. Only 3.8% of the page was readable content, and a lot of agents don't run JavaScript at all. They showed up, saw basically nothing, and left.
The best part is it doesn't just roast you. Every failed check comes with a fix prompt you can copy straight into Claude. After using it, we hit a 100. It took about 15 minutes and can land you more customers.
Scan yours and see how cooked you are.
frequently asked
Can Claude edit videos?[+]
With Opus 5.5 and an editing skill, yes. Record a talking head, drop the raw clip in a folder with reference videos, and Claude writes captions, adds zooms, and layers in real screenshots and GIFs.
What is AEO?[+]
Answer engine optimization: how well AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can find, read, and use your website when someone asks them for a recommendation.
Why can AI agents not see my website?[+]
Many agents do not run JavaScript, so a site that renders its content client-side looks nearly empty to them. Server-rendering your content fixes most of it.
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