I this one from scratch this weekend after getting the tip from Jake yesterday in that you start with the voice... an animated explainer of ICM. The method's Jake's. I just made it into a video. Quick version of the idea: talking to AI in a chat is like a builder who can only see what's right in front of him. You keep piling stuff on, the first thing you told him gets buried, and he builds it wrong — and swears that's what you said. Give him a blueprint instead — files, folders, a sign-off before the next step — and the same builder gets it right every time. The chat forgets. The structure remembers. What I learned: Honestly, the biggest thing was that this was a redo. I'd taken a run at it before and it fought me the whole way. This time it didn't — and it wasn't the tool that changed, it was me. A bunch more sessions in, I finally stopped trying to control every little thing and just trusted the spec. You put in the beats, the timing, and what it should feel like. The code is Claude's job, not yours. Every time I tried to do its job for it, it got worse. Two things that made it click. I recorded the voiceover first, then used Whisper to pull the timecodes, so the animation lines up with how I actually talk instead of drifting all over. And everything's built in reusable pieces — I fixed the builder's hard hat once and it fixed itself in every scene. You never touch code. You just describe what you want. The most confusing part: Whisper on Windows. Not the idea — getting it installed. It fought me for five tries: a dead version, no Windows build on a couple of them, the files unzipping to the wrong spot, then the paths breaking. If you're on Windows and stuck there, that's the exact spot. Pin a version that has a Windows build, put the binaries where it expects them, and use full paths, not relative ones. I ended up wrapping the whole mess in a one-command script. Comment or DM me and I'll send it so you don't lose the afternoon I did. What I hope to do with it: Set it up so I can just run it again and again — one folder for scripts, one for building — and share that so anyone can use it. Then use it to teach: take an idea and turn it into a short video people can actually follow. This ICM one's the first. There'll be more. And if you're building your own and you get stuck, especially on Windows, tag me. I just went through it — happy to help.