My blog whispered 'genius'. Turning the content into a video shouted 'chaotic dreck'

 Your content is only as good as it presents 💬


I've had plenty of blog articles that I thought were good enough to put out on the Internet. It was only after I tried to use them as a basis for a video that I realized how chaotic or incomplete they were.


AI-Assisted Timeline

  1. 2 hours wall clock getting an LLM to create outlines for 6 blog articles
  2. 1 hour to generate a blog article from the outline
  3. 2 wall clock hours of iteration and ideation and proofreading
  4. 4 days of coffee decompression
  5. Return to project
  6. 6 wall clock hours of iteration with the AI and proofreading
  7. Published the article.
  8. Immediately found problems
  9. 2 wall clock hours of iteration and republished
  10. 1 day later
  11. LLM found problems while working on other article.
  12. 1 wall clock hour of proofreading and iteration
  13. 4 days of other stuff including coffee decompression
  14. Started video recording
  15. Unrecorded hours of swearing
  16. 1 wall clock hour of iteration and republished
  17. Unrecorded hours of moaning and banging head on table.
  18. 2 wall clock hours of iteration and republished
  19. Started video recording
  20. Finished video recording

Revision History 

Published 2026 10 02


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