Show Notes
Brooke Lacey has been making videos since before Facebook had video, and she built a TikTok audience of more than 290,000 by learning to cut short-form videos herself. With over 25 years in tech, she now builds her own apps, including Zosha, a free mobile app for learning AI. In this episode, Brooke walks me through the Claude Code, FFmpeg, and Whisper workflow that edits her TikToks in about 15 seconds, how she mines her comments for new scripts, and how she runs a weekly short-form operation with no editor.
What you’ll learn: How Claude Code edits a raw phone video on her computer in about 15 seconds How she taught Claude her jump-cut cadence Why her TikTok comments became her content brief How she keeps growing her audience while posting just once a week—and what’s next What over 25 years in tech taught her about this AI moment — Brought to you by: Firecrawl—Give your AI agents web data and beyond Auros—The human network behind AI — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Intro and guest welcome (02:30) Brooke’s background in video (06:56) Her first session cutting videos with Claude Code (08:51) Live demo: Claude edits a video in real time (11:05) Walking through the edit chain (15:58) How she taught Claude her cadence, her hooks, and what funny sounds like (25:36) Quick recap (26:20) Posting frequency, live streaming plans, and TikTok ads (28:00) Lightning round: Gen X, wisened experience, and YOLO energy (32:43) When Claude disappoints: the lane OS, status files, and how she prompts it back (34:50) Where to find Brooke and the Zosha app — Tools referenced: • Claude Code: https://claude.ai/code • FFmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org • Whisper (OpenAI): https://openai.com/research/whisper — Other reference: • How I AI episode with John Blackman (91-year-old vibe coder): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-a-91-year-old-vibe-coded-a-complex?utm_source=publication-search — Where to find Brooke: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brookejlacey X: https://x.com/brookejlacey Zosha app: http://zosha.app/ — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email [email protected].
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