Meta Ads CLI, Seedance Video, Claude Tokenizer — AI Daily Apr 30

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Overview

Meta dropped an official Ads CLI today, instantly becoming the day's biggest talking point — builders see it as a faster, less ban-prone path for agentic media buying than scraping the API, though it's still in closed beta with limited access. Alongside it, OpenRouter's analysis showed Claude Opus 4.7's new tokenizer effectively raises costs 12-27% on prompts over 2K tokens (sticker price unchanged), while Adobe shipped a Creative Cloud connector letting Claude orchestrate Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and Firefly directly. Video generation broke out as a major thread: @arielletolome's Seedance 2.0 outputs via Higgsfield wowed the group, with one VA producing 36 videos in a day. Seedance is the consensus pick over Runway, but it can't natively produce long-form — builders are stitching 15-second clips via Topview or custom MCP pipelines. On the coding side, Codex vs Claude Code debates landed on a complementary stack (CC orchestrates, Codex codes), and @jcartu reported Qwen 3.6 27B hitting ~80% on SWE-bench at 150 tps on RTX Pro 6000 Blackwells — making local SOTA a real Anthropic alternative. @jasonakatiff anchored a deep thread on dogfooding Lead Router and theListicleBuilder, hiring a CEO with 25% vesting equity to own sales, and building B2B funnels for 10K insurance agents. Production copywriting stacks (Pinecone retrieval, 200+ template banks, cross-vertical porting that dropped Meta CPA from $60 to $30), Stripe holds on clean accounts, and Shopify's payments-processor exit rounded out a dense day.

Topics

Meta released an official Ads CLI for managing campaigns from the terminal — first-party automation surface that's faster than API wrappers and likely lower ban risk. Currently in closed beta with few accounts approved. @GuruTime detailed his Meta-only attribution/automation SaaS pivoting away from cross-channel, while BM bans on legit accounts and system-user permission quirks remain open pain points.

@arielletolome's Seedance 2.0 outputs via Higgsfield stole the show, with discussion covering image-to-video prompting, scene stitching for 2-minute outputs (Topview, custom MCP), and Higgsfield's tightening 'protected content' rules. Seedance is the consensus pick over Runway. @Wootbro shared OpenMontage as a full AI video engine, recommending fal.ai or Kie.ai as backends.

OpenRouter found Opus 4.7's new tokenizer effectively raises costs 12-27% on 2K+ prompts. Builders are pairing CC as orchestrator with Codex as coder (plus Warp, cmux, Augment Intent), and @jcartu reported Qwen 3.6 27B hitting ~80% SWE-bench at 150 tps on RTX Pro 6000 Blackwells — viable local replacement for Opus on coding tasks. Adobe's new Claude connector orchestrates Photoshop, Premiere, Firefly and Illustrator from one prompt.

@kennyaronson and @mb29266 detailed automated copy pipelines: customer avatar + 200-300 proven templates classified and retrieved via Pinecone, multi-agent eval loops, human-in-the-loop QC. Cross-vertical template porting (pest control → pain relief) dropped Meta CPA from $60 to $30. @jasonakatiff workshopped a B2B funnel to acquire 10K insurance agents buying leads, treating B2B acquisition like ecom.

@jasonakatiff outlined his Lead Router playbook — visiting 90% of core pages daily, fixing reported bugs in 1-3 minutes, and hiring a CEO (former Taboola US sales lead) on 25% vesting equity to own sales. Stack: Vercel, Railway, Neon snapshots as insurance against CC migrations. @iamgalba shared a $20K Stripe hold on a clean $60K-rev account, switching to Dodo Payments; @nickyfiorentino flagged Shopify registering as a payment processor in 13 states.

Key Takeaways

  • Meta's official Ads CLI is live in closed beta — first-party agentic media buying surface, but won't replace custom attribution/automation stacks yet.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 effectively costs 12-27% more on 2K+ prompts due to a quietly changed tokenizer — re-benchmark your bills.
  • Qwen 3.6 27B on RTX Pro 6000 hits ~80% SWE-bench at 150 tps — local SOTA coding without Anthropic dependency is here.
  • Seedance 2.0 via Higgsfield beats Runway for AI ad video, but stitch 15-second clips via Topview/MCP for long-form output.
  • Dogfood your own SaaS daily, hire a CEO on 25% vesting equity to own sales, and use Neon/Supabase snapshots before letting CC touch DB migrations.

Hot Threads

@jasonakatiffstarted

Dogfooding Lead Router, hiring a CEO at 25% equity, and B2B funnels for 10K insurance agents

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@arielletolomestarted

Seedance 2.0 video outputs via Higgsfield + prompting tips

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@GuruTimestarted

Meta-only attribution & automation SaaS pitch + Codex vs Claude Code workflows

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