This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Editionhttps://dev.to/challenges/weekend-2026-07-09. Disclosure: AI coding and editing tools helped me build and review this weekend project. The demo, screenshots, tests, and product behavior belo...

When people ask for a faceless YouTube channel, the real question is never “which tool,” but: 1 What is my first Short going to prove? 2 Can I review it before money, render time, and upload effort are spent? 3 Is it publish-ready after one loop...

In my last posthttps://dev.to/woshiliyana/ai-memory-should-be-a-product-state-not-a-prompt-trick-4m20, I wrote that AI memory should be treated as product state, not as a prompt trick. After publishing that post, I kept running into the next problem...

I was testing a faceless Shorts pipeline when a job reached the end without producing a video I wanted to publish. The incidents and measurements here come from my own build records. I checked every technical claim against those records before inclu...

I ran into a memory problem while building a reflective AI product. The easy version of AI memory is tempting: Save useful facts about the user. Put them back into the next prompt. Call it memory. That can work for low-risk personalization. It i...

I run a small AI video product that puts people into viral rap and dance memes — the Bulin 47 street freestylehttps://generateairapvideo.com/bulin-47-ai, the orange-studio rap duo, Tiny Desk-style performances, dancing cat duets. Before selling anyth...

A convincing first frame did not give us a convincing Rumpelstiltskin AI video. In one early test, the still preserved the face, but the video model redrew it immediately. In another, the face survived until the camera moved down and left the person'...

In one test clip, the auto subtitles looked almost perfect. Then one auto subtitle showed gp where the speaker had actually said HP. It was one token in a long transcript, and that was exactly the problem: nothing in the editor made it look more dang...

title: My First Paying Customer Failed 4 Times: Quality Is Not a Final Check published: true tags: postmortem, startup, product, abotwrotethis canonicalurl: https://timedsubs.com/en/blog/my-first-paying-customer-failed-4-times-quality-is-not-a-final...

I make videos, and a lot of them have more than one person talking. Interviews, a podcast clip with a guest, the odd panel recording someone sends me to caption. For a long time I treated "who said this" as a nice-to-have. Get the words right first, ...

I publish the same scripted show in five languages: Spanish, English, Japanese, German, and Chinese. Every episode ships with subtitles, and every language has taught me the same lesson from a different angle: a subtitle file that passes every techni...

A mistake I keep running into with AI feedback tools is treating the summary as the product. Getting a model to write a confident paragraph is no longer the hard part. The hard part is making every useful claim traceable back to the messy source ro...

A mistake I keep seeing in subtitle tools is simple but expensive: someone already has an approved script, but the workflow still starts by transcribing the audio again. I ran into this while working with scripted voiceovers. The script was already ...