The AI Stash

Automated Video Editing with Claude Code: My Real Stack

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Answer in 60 seconds. Claude Code can drive FFmpeg, Remotion, OBS (the free screen-recording app), and the big editors (Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro) through MCP, the protocol that lets Claude talk to other apps. You write a sentence and Claude writes the actual command. Your machine spits out the file. The parts I run weekly: FFmpeg for resize, crop, compress, and convert. Remotion for Shorts that build themselves from a small data file. Planning Mode plus a CLAUDE.md file for templates I reuse. The pieces I have not yet pushed through a paid edit: Jumper-style links into Adobe and Resolve, Hyperframes for motion graphics, video-use for clips that clean themselves up, and OBS scripts for live captures. The pieces I run cost about $0.04 to $0.20 per finished clip in running costs. A freelancer charges $80 to $300 for the same cut.

Stop Hitting Claude's Rate Limits: My 3-Tool $25 Stack

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Answer in 60 seconds. Anthropic admitted a compute shortage in early 2026. Claude Plus rate limits got tighter for everyone. Switching entirely to DeepSeek or another tool costs you quality on the 20 percent of work that actually needs Claude. The fix is a 3-tool stack: Opus 4.7 for the hard 20 percent, DeepSeek V4 Flash for the cheap 80 percent of drafting and rewriting, Gemini Flash-Lite for routing and extraction. Total cost about $25 a month versus ~$60 a month for stacking three “Plus” subscriptions that still hit walls. No rate-limit walls.

NotebookLM for SEO: How I Cut Research to 10 Minutes (Free)

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Answer in 60 seconds. Open NotebookLM (free, Google account), use the “Search the web” feature with your target keyword, import the top 10-15 results, then paste three prompts: a gap-table prompt, a cited-receipts prompt, and an outline prompt. You get a structured table of what the SERP covers, a list of topics nobody covered, source-linked facts you can use, and an SEO-friendly outline. Total active time: about 10 minutes. NotebookLM is Google’s free research notebook. Every answer is based only on the pages you upload, no outside guessing.

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Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

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The Smartest AI Model Lies the Most. Here Is the Math.

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Everyone’s saying GPT-5.5 just won the AI race.

I read the benchmark and then I read the hallucination report. They tell different stories.

GPT-5.5 hit 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, top of the leaderboard. The same week, its hallucination rate clocked at 86 percent. Claude Opus 4.7 sits at 36 percent. Gemini 3.1 Pro at roughly 50.

Why Is AI Bad? The 10 Real Failures Most People Get Wrong

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Of the 10 reasons people think AI is bad in 2026, seven are usage problems and three are real model regressions. The seven you can fix today, by yourself, without changing a tool or paying a different subscription. The three are documented this month in public benchmarks and GitHub issues, and the mitigation is in your hands too.

You're in.

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You’re in.

Day 0 of the welcome course is on its way to your inbox. Subject line: “Welcome. Now stop sounding like everyone else.” It is the voice extraction in 5 minutes, with two prompts you can copy and paste.

About

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Who I am

Lauri Niskasaari. Finnish writer who has been online trying to make money since 2005.

I have built more than 100 WordPress sites and run SEO seriously enough to get murdered by Google updates more than once. I have built more than 30 Claude Skills to run my own publishing operation. I am not an AI engineer. I am not in tech. I am not in Silicon Valley. I am a working writer using AI to actually ship work, and I have been doing it long enough to know what works in week one and what falls apart in week three.

Tried learning AI and it still sucks?

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

5 AI Tricks and 5 Prompts That Save Me an Hour Every Week

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I have spent the last eighteen months testing AI tools every day for real work, including writing entire books with Claude and rebuilding most of my workflow around what these models can and cannot do, and the single most useful thing I can give you in a free PDF is the small handful of tricks that produced an actual “wait, what” moment when I tried them. Not the demos that sound impressive on a YouTube thumbnail. The ones I still use weeks later because they keep paying off.

How to Use Claude Opus 4.7: What Actually Changed and How to Prompt It Right

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Claude Opus 4.7 dropped on April 16, 2026, and it is the most capable generally available model Anthropic has released. To use it well, you need to know three things: it follows your instructions more literally than 4.6, it decides how much to think on its own through adaptive thinking, and old prompting scaffolding like “think step by step” now actively hurts your results. If you are still using prompts you wrote for Opus 4.6, this guide will show you what to change and why the changes matter.