One of my biggest pet peeves with AI filmmaking right now is how quickly we seem to settle for “good enough.” We keep saying these tools remove friction without lowering quality, and yet I still see so many 15-second sequences glued together with broken continuity, disappearing objects, obvious artifacts, no grading, barely any dialogue, and very little attempt at actual narration. The funny part is that the tools are getting insanely good, but somehow that seems to make some of us less demanding, not more. Getting a cool shot fast shouldn’t be the end goal. It should give us more time to curate, redo the bad stuff, fix continuity, work on performance, edit properly, and actually tell a story. Nothing wrong with short experiments or gimmicks, I make them too. But if we want people to take AI filmmaking seriously, we also have to show that we care about the filmmaking part, not just the generation. And then we wonder why the whole space gets dismissed so easily. None of us will get it perfect, myself included, but we can at least give enough of a shit to keep raising the bar.