Appreciation Post - Clief Notes Community 🙌💙

This was the first community I joined, and my first real go at AI beyond just talking to a chat window. I found it pretty much by chance, lurked for a few months, and High Tea 6 was my first call.

I didn't realise at the time how much that would shape things.

The picture I got here was a healthy one. Build the thing, watch how it actually behaves, be honest about the bits that don't work.

I've spoken to enough people since who came in through paid courses to know that isn't the norm. Nobody here sold me a shortcut, and I got pretty lucky landing here first rather than somewhere else.

Something happened recently that made me take a step back.

I met someone at an open networking event who runs corporate training and is writing a textbook alongside it. What she needs is her course turned into per-module walkthrough videos - her own slides on screen, voiceover over the top, one video per module.

I built it as ICM, because that's just how I build now.

Numbered stage folders, one agent reading the right files at the right moment, markdown carrying the context, and local scripts doing all the mechanical work that never needed a model in the first place. Her voice cloned from a module she'd already recorded, the deck walked and exported as frames, one script and one audio file per slide. The durations of those audio files become the cue sheet that stitches the whole thing together, so there's no separate timing step to get wrong.

One module's through it end to end. 21 slides, 21 scripts, 21 audio files, one finished MP4.

And there's around ten hours of modules to put through the same pipeline. As an 18-year-old that's a really good opportunity, and it's going to generate me some serious income.

I wouldn't have built any of it without what I picked up in here first, so thank you to everyone who's answered a question of mine along the way.

Nothing's finished yet. I've still got a lot to come and plenty I haven't cracked. It just felt worth stopping on rather than quietly getting on with the next thing.

How did the rest of you find your way in here - by chance like me, or did you already know what you were looking for?

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Appreciation Post - Clief Notes Community 🙌💙