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It works pretty well. I tried it this morning and in about 15 minutes I had recorded and edited a three minute video.

(I've used AI transcription in resolve before, not this is actually editing the transcript with an llm and then inserting the clips. I also did breath detection and b roll placement. The Python scripting later is poorly documented and only supports a subset of the functionality of Resolve.)

I have some custom filters for index entries and code formatting.

In fact, just had a friend with a traditionally published book who is now self-pubbing ask me yesterday about my tools. I recommended Pandoc and Typst. He (surprisingly to me) had never heard of Typst, but within the hour replied that (with the use of AI) he had a great-looking template for the book. (Try doing that with LaTeX).

Also, how did he post this if he isn't using the Internet?

According to openrouter, Opus 4.8 is 128 t/s. So 10x faster than my antirez/ds4.

I write Python, software engineering, and data science books in Jupyter. (Because I want both text and code). I've written my own toolchain (multiple times, don't ask, yes, I've tried the one you're thinking of and it didn't work for me).

I need to convert the notebooks into chapters in my books (PDF so I can print them). In the past, I used code to convert to LaTeX. (It was horrible).

Now, I use code to convert the Jupyter file to markdown, then (I use pandoc too) to typst. (It is 100x better than LaTeX).

(I also use pandoc to convert markdown to epub).

A good book deals with that.

For example, my Effective Pandas book teaches best practices that most never learn because the blog posts that train the models are actually espousing anti patterns.

(As an author I'm keenly aware that fewer folks are buying books.)

It's very cool to go to sleep and wake up knowing what the solution to the problem is.

The key for incubation for me is to make sure my brain can churn without distractions (that means no listening to podcasts, music, etc while performing said action).

But I'm writing more code than I ever did as a developer. YMMV

    Brainstorm N ways to do X. Sort by probability.

Don't outsource all of your thinking.

New pricing model changes that. I will still keep it around for autocompletion (for the rare times when I open up an editor).

I get the anti/skeptic sentiment. I've been called a lot of horrible things by a vocal contingent when they hear that I help train folks to learn software engineering best practices and then apply AI to that.

There's a large (and growing!) contingent of people who don't write code these days. (Many don't even use the keyboard.)

(Ducks...)