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Joined April 2007
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send this to anyone who says you make nothing
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burned through 2 fable usage resets and then I asked it with a “/btw is ultracode really needed here” and it said, no and regular subagents is a better fit for this anyway 😭 — so now I’m having it continue with xhigh and no ultracode
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The benefit of Fable 5.2 xhigh ultracode consuming 1% per minute means that I can use one of my fable resets before bed.
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Someone needs to make a TV show about a band of misfit covert agents who work for the Star Wars Empire (yes, on the dark side). The show would be called Slow Forces.
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If you want your kids to drive you mad by playing it on repeat...Doodle Drop is now on all major platforms. Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/75wrm… Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/doo… YouTube: youtu.be/zM9K3FXWx5E?si=vGXe… Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/tracks/B0HQ…
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I really hate that openai upsells a security model and artificially denies gpt. real jerk move.
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even worse that it burned codex usage for 23 minutes before killing it.
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I honestly don't know how anyone else is making videos without writing their own custom software that works the way they want it to...
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every video I work on includes me telling claude that something isn't working and then we add more software and UI to make it work.
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there it is
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For the impossible music video project, one of the tricky elements is that it takes place in a skating rink and I need to have world model level consistency as the camera circles around the rink, so I have modeled a rink design in blender (fashioned after my local venue)
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Every automated video attempt fails. Every shot is wrong, every decision is bad, every idea is poorly executed. We are a long way from passing a script, reference images, descriptions with "make this short film" and not need a human to rework every single shot and decision. Is anyone experiencing something different?
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I don't like to say bad things about models but I'm amazed that OpenAI claimed gpt-6.1-terra is good at writing.
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Still making my impossible music video and another one that I thought would be easy and isn't, but this one only took me 3 days. I give you Doodle Drop.
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The music required 62 takes. Chat helped with the listing of the dogs, but all the funny parts are human written. The video itself is produced with claude, grok video, and gpt imagegen and a lot of human research, validation, revisions, and direction. Each of these projects is helping me fix and improve workflow for my most difficult project.
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Oh, I forgot that the opening scene was $4.01 worth of Fal generations. Had to do a bunch of takes to get it right.
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we've gotten to the point where you get better results with coding agents by providing as little human slop in your prompt as possible (e.g. "this isn't working" instead of "I think it's not working because...", but with creative output (image/video generation) you have to be extremely specific to avoid slop.
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While working on my impossible music video, I started a new one thinking that claude could easily produce it and it still required 50 manual human curated suno takes, human written lyrics, and over a dozen hours of fixing image and video issues... and then I started another. I now have 3 projects in flight...
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sometimes doing quick local previz gives hilarious slop results.
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