I Built a Free AI Video Editor That Runs 100% on Local Models

By Noemi Titarenco

I got tired of trimming silences by hand, so I vibecoded an agentic video editor and then let it edit this video. You chat ("trim silences"), it queues cuts, you accept or reject. Brain is SmolLM2-360M, eyes are vit-gpt2, ears are whisper.cpp — all local, no API bill. It finds 160 quiet stretches, hits a bad_alloc, gets debugged by another agent, and still ships the cut.

About The author

Noemi Titarenco
Product Manager, Researcher + Engineer

I spend a lot of time thinking about (software and business) problems - sometimes I get around to writing about it, and you get to read about it here.