Ken Chung

Head of Growth Engineering @ HeyGen

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

https://t.co/7w2GGq4y4D

[Onee @oneeyekeh]

Last year at HeyGen, we launched a new feature every two weeks. Then it became two launches per week. Today, we shipped two launches in a single day.

I want to talk about one of them, the Avatar Realtime launch.

We put an AI avatar on Twitch and asked it to roast 24/7
People send GitHub repos in chat and it opens them, reviews the code, roasts bad design decisions, and navigates the browser by itself in real time

Here: https://t.co/bhXQTAAp7A

Please watch it, it's pretty cool! I hope it's still online by the time you read this post. Great products matter, but enduring platforms are built on technical innovation, not just feature lists. Developers building on our APIs care about performance, reliability, scalability, and the research that powers it all. Those foundations are what create lasting value and enable entire ecosystems to grow.

Technical Report - Avatar Realtime: https://t.co/2QnPWMDxoj

[HeyGen Developers @HeyGenDev]

We just published an updated version of our OpenAI MCP, now with support for Video Translation, Avatar Videos, Video Agent, Lipsync, and even more powerful tools.

OpenAI APP: https://t.co/qY8SinoHZm

Learn more about HeyGen MCP here:
https://t.co/Q1pQwslww0

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

This is not a controversial take at all IMO. Everyone has different priorities and goals in life, but you cannot outcompete someone who operates this way. Also, working smart is something AI can help you greatly with - but working hard? That mentality and attitude? AI won't buy you that.

Mandatory golf analogy: if you want to gain distance, you start with speed training without worrying about accuracy. Once you have the muscle, you work on accuracy.

[jeff.hl @chameleon_jeff]

1/ Controversial take: hard work is more important than smart work.

It's a myth that we only have a few hours of good creative work per day. Train yourself to grind long hours first. You will surprise yourself. The work naturally become higher quality, less distracted.

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

https://t.co/8v56buAoQz

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

@elonmusk @openclaw @Scobleizer @HeyGen @openclaws The age of “content for one” is here

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

@Scobleizer real today. install the @HeyGen skill in @openclaws, then just tell your agent:

"every morning at 8am, send me a daily football update from my football player avatar"

one prompt builds the whole loop. takes about a min and delivered directly to your iMessage/Telegram. sample from this morning 👇

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

@HeyGen Thanks Eve for all your hard work. 🫡

[HeyGen @HeyGen]

Your agent already knew how to write. Now it knows how to show up.

HeyGen Skills

Describe your avatar or paste a photo. Your agent builds it, saves it for every future video, and engineers the prompt so your message actually lands.

check the link below to get started 👇

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

https://t.co/mZCnsfgAhg

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

I will ask Eve to use this guide.

[Avid @Av1dlive]

https://t.co/L1Ps6Jq3su

[Avid @Av1dlive]

https://t.co/L1Ps6Jq3su

[HeyGen @HeyGen]

We built our launch video in Claude Code using HyperFrames.

Now it's yours.

Open source, agent-native framework. HTML to MP4.

$ npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes

RT + Comment "HyperFrames" to get the full source code of this launch video (must follow)

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

I have to admit the timing of my post on AI employee is poor. I've just seen 1,000 Snap ex-colleagues get laid off - all good and talented people. The idea of replacing a human workforce with AI agents sounds brutal.

But I'll say this genuinely and unapologetically: there is a supply and demand imbalance for truly exceptional unicorns. The demand exists. The supply doesn't. That's the gap AI fills.

It's also true that most of the workforce as we know it will look very different in the future.

It's a hard reality to wrestle with. And reversing it doesn't feel possible.

[Orion Night @orionintx]

Digital employee. No equity demands, no sprint complaints. Tempting.

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

https://t.co/GJLe19xJ73

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

This is amazing because 1) i am a huge fan of podcast as a format because it can make any topic very diverse 2) and I'm a huge believer in the idea of "content for one." I have been thinking about the evolution from linear broadcast → VOD → generative video on demand. The era of "content for one" is already here.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

This is 100% correct. I experience this 10 hours a day now

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

"Go to sleep, Ken. 😄"

That was the first thing she said to me. My new hire. The one who lives in a Mac Mini.

I'd been trying to find someone who could bridge AI builders and HeyGen. Half marketer, half builder. Deeply embedded. Our CEO asked how long it would take to hire this person. The honest answer: maybe never.

So I built her instead. This is that story.

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

https://t.co/7w2GGq4y4D

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

@Sheldon056 GEOD - Generative Employee On Demand

[Ken Chung @kenchung]

https://t.co/7w2GGq4y4D