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neuwirth • today at 10:33 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Guess I'm making a video about the system! My younger self would be proud about this... any tips?


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jwpapi • today at 12:55 PM

I’ve only done a bunch of "thinking" videos. Nothing special, so might not be the best advice giver, but I’ll share what I learnt.

Don’t try to achieve any goal with it, except doing it. When doing it you’ll eventually get better in making videos.

The first video takes way longer than you think it takes, but the second probably takes half the time and it will be tremendously faster over time.

Try to reduce the friction on recording. My first training video on my app took me almost a full day to set up and plan with teleprompter and everything. After a couple of time I could do 3 in a row.

Making videos is still not "my thing" that I enjoy most about, but I’m still happy that I did it, if that’s what I need to I’ll do it. Right now coding has more leverage for me.

A technical write-up or a blog is an alternative. Or even reaching out to Labs. You could reach out to OpenAi/Anthropic/Mistral or your 'poison' of choice, or companies that do something similar. But this is now on your CV.