I switched from structured outputs on OpenAI apis to unstructured on Claude (haiku 4.5) and haven't had any issues (yet). But guarantees are always nice.
I've wanted to build a video editing agent this year but I kept putting it off because I thought it would take too long. Having simple Claude Skills as markdowns + a little bit of Ruby made this a lot easier than I expected.
Behind the scenes we transcribe audio, analyze frames, and then build a combined/combed transcript of all the footage. Claude can then build rough cuts by just laying out clips with the correct timestamps. After a yaml rough cut is built, a Ruby library generates basic XML for Final Cut or Premiere.
The design taste on almost all these humanoid bots seems off. If I'm going to have some AI-powered alien in my house I want it to be and appear harmless, helpful, maybe even cute? These look creepy and dystopian.
I look forward to trying this out. Any benchmarks or demos on how long it actually takes to restore? I ended up cooking my own boring S3 backup because previously litestream took 20 minutes to restore something like 1000 rows. It felt extremely unoptimized. How long does restoration take today?
Hey I’ve been trying to get Claude code to generate Final Cut xml myself. Mostly I just have a Claude.md with the FCP xml reference and some guidelines. What does this do differently?
Well, the format is incredibly complex. You have to generate the XML correct in every last detail or FCP will crash when you import it. I learned the hard way you need a robust validator system and not just tests alone. Before XML goes out the door you need a last line of defense to catch problems. The go version of cutlass is pretty good at this now and python is catching up.
You can try my project Plandex[1] to use Gemini in a way that's comparable to Claude Code without copy-pasting. By default, it combines models from the major providers—Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google.
The default planning/coding models are still Sonnet 3.7 for context size under 200k, but you can switch to Gemini with `\set-model gemini-preview`.
I really like the idea of Claude Code but its rare that I fully spec out a feature on my first request and I can't see how it can be used for frontend features that require a lot of browser-centric iteration/debugging to get right.
I don't know if I'm a fan but I've almost never had erb be the problem in a Rails app. The LLMs can work with it easily. Don't need to bring in extensions to work with major text editors. Sticking with ERB for now.
This gem is a really nice all-in-one setup! \n
(Also worth noting that Rails 8 now supports sqlite for your application database (no more warnings about using it in prod), job queue (active job/solid queue) and cache (solid cache) out of the box.)
