“TLDR is that it just used the boring tools that are already on our computers. FFmpeg, Whisper, Python. Like it didn't upload the video anywhere… And then not only that, but it's listening and goes, oh, I just heard you say, cut that out. And then it also was like, you repeated this a couple of times. And I took the one that was the best cadence.”
Lenny's Newsletter · Product & Design · October 2026
The creator describes the first time she pointed Claude Code at a 25–30 minute unedited recording of herself. She had always done her own jump cuts because editors couldn't get the timing right, and expected little.
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of all the short
…how Claude Code helps you produce not just like slop content, but actually really great high-quality short forms with its own special little art. And so dive us into what were you trying to solve? What were you trying to do? And how did you figure out that Claude was going to help you on the way?
…files are in the computer. If I could like get the gif of Zoolander, I say it all the time. Like the files in the computer, it doesn't upload anywhere. The only thing that's happening is the instructions are being pulled and it's doing all of the things. It's just running the computer, the files in the computer. And all of a sudden, it's like pop and then it opens the video. And I'm like, what? And then not only that, but it's listening and goes, oh, I just heard you say, cut that out. And then it also was like, you repeated this a couple of times. And I took the one that was the best cadence. And I was like, what? What did you do? And I mean, sat back. This is probably the 15th or 16th time in the last six months that I literally like fell to the floor. Like, I'm so dramatic anyway, but I was like, what just happened? Like, what?
And what just happened is Claude descended upon our videos. So let's show it because I have been doing this a little bit, but I think you have a much better system than me. So I'm just going to sit here and learn it. So show us. And again, it's only going to be
fun because of the way I'm talking about it because it's really, really friggin' boring. Like it's just boring. But of course, you and I think it's amazing and hopefully your audience too. But yeah.
Yes. This is the How AI vibe. We will make your markdown and Python files feel like the most exciting thing you have to do. Your life is
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