Like having a team of people generating content drafts just from following me around. All I have to do is review, edit, and publish. Claude handles the rest. Let me know if you want to know more about how I built this and how it works. ⬇️

A fun little video I threw together! Enjoy!

I had a script and nothing else. Thirty minutes later I had a finished branded animation, and a whole engine to generate them. I never set up a single thing myself. That's the part I keep coming back to. Not that I made an animation, that the entire setup, the part that would normally stop me cold, I never touched. Here's what actually happened. I gave my coding agent Jake Van Clief's classroom lessons on making animations with Remotion. Then I pointed it at two things I already had: my branding and my voice docs. And then I got out of the way. The agent installed Remotion. It created the whole workspace. It pulled the patterns straight out of Jake's lessons and wired everything together. All the dependency-wrangling and project setup that usually eats an afternoon and makes me want to quit, done, without me. I'm not a developer. Setting up a coding environment from scratch is exactly the kind of wall that used to end a project before it started. This time it just wasn't there. So I went from a script to a real animation, in my brand, in about half an hour. Most of that half hour was me watching the agent work. The skill I needed wasn't animation, and it wasn't code. It was knowing what to hand the agent and then trusting it to set the table. Check out the animation below and my full writeup at https://donsbookshelf.com/blog/script-to-animation-in-30-minutes/ https://youtube.com/shorts/v-iVe-zOEUs?si=27OzFrltQAinzmpU

Today, I am able to keep my projects in motion while having the day to spend with my daughter and family. Something that wasn’t possible until I learned how to use AI. I’m optimistic about our future with this tech because of days like this. I hope ten years from now more dads will get to spend their Father’s Day with their children because of it.

Quick pulse check for the community, and be honest, there's no wrong answer here. This group is wild in the best way. We've got people who opened Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes for the first time last week sitting right next to folks running full agent systems for clients. I'm genuinely curious where we all actually are. Vote below, then drop a comment with one of two things: the one thing you're stuck on, or the one win you're most proud of so far. Here's why that matters. The beginners reading this will learn more from your honest comment than from any course, and the rest of us might be able to help you get unstuck. Each one, teach one. Wherever you landed on that list, you're in the right thread. We all started at number one.