But I never threw in the towel.

You build robots that don't specialize in anything because they adapt to everything. I've been doing the same thing for twenty-five years: walking into a project that isn't my territory, understanding its internal logic very quickly, and producing something that works from the start.

Beyond editing, I spend many nights building systems: automating generation pipelines, retrieving any shot from a thousand-asset archive using natural language and ad jargon — in under two seconds. Not as a hobby. As infrastructure.