🙋 A little about me: I'm a video editor based in Argentina. Besides business/work, I'm very big on fitness and am currently obsessed with tennis 🎯 My current goal: Learn the fundamentals of AI and incorporate it into my freelance career for more and better clients. Maybe I'll want to create an agency or network of editors to give the work to when I am overbooked. 💪 What I'm currently building/working on: Once I go through the classes and need to start implementing to follow along, I'll build a folder structure to create carousel posts for one of my clients 🤔 My biggest struggle or question right now: No struggle yet; I need to start building. It's been only 24hs and watched a ton of community posts and gone through the onboarding very thoroughly. I'm anxious to build, but I want to be sure I go through everything very intentionally. Let's get it! 🚀

@Ry Mac did a GREAT job simplifying things down. Recommend taking a look. Has his own group too! https://skool.com/buildmarketclose/about

Hey Clief Notes fam! 👋 I'm Joseph and I'm stoked to be here. 🙋 A little about me: A DevOps Engineer based in Munich. 🎯 My current goal: Improving my understanding of ICM and AI. 💪 What I'm currently building/working on: Various personal projects and consultations 🤔 My biggest struggle or question right now: Am I using ICM properly for my project? Let's get it! 🚀

When I first joined this community I could not quite get my head around what ICM actually was. I understood the rough concept, but it kept sounding like skills wearing a different name, and nobody explained the difference in a way that stuck. Something clicked today that made it simple, so here it is in case anyone else is stuck at the same place. A skill is a recipe with the ingredients already out on the counter. It is a meal you make often, so you have written down how it goes and you have everything to hand. Run it and you get that meal, made well, every time. ICM is a chef who knows your kitchen. The chef knows where things are kept, because you told it once. It knows the fridge is over there, and roughly what you keep in it. It knows what you like, because that is the context you have given it over time. It knows what you cooked last week, because your workspace has your past outputs and examples in it. And it can already cook, because that part came with the model. So when you say "make dinner", it does not need a recipe for that specific dinner. It knows where to look, what you have, and what you would want. That is the whole difference. A skill produces one known thing reliably. ICM is the standing knowledge that lets something work out what to do when there is no recipe for it. The bit that took me longest to see is that they are not competing. A chef with no idea where anything is kept still needs a recipe handed to them for every single meal. A kitchen full of well-labelled ingredients with nobody in it is just storage. The recipes live in the kitchen, and the chef reaches for one when the job calls for it. If you are early in this and it still feels like two words for the same idea, that was exactly where I was - And there's loads of content in here and merely being around it and being receptive to some insanely capable people in this community, you will learn loads just via osmosis. What was the thing that finally made it land for you - and what does the kitchen look like in literal terms in your workspace?

This was the first community I joined, and my first real go at AI beyond just talking to a chat window. I found it pretty much by chance, lurked for a few months, and High Tea 6 was my first call. I didn't realise at the time how much that would shape things. The picture I got here was a healthy one. Build the thing, watch how it actually behaves, be honest about the bits that don't work. I've spoken to enough people since who came in through paid courses to know that isn't the norm. Nobody here sold me a shortcut, and I got pretty lucky landing here first rather than somewhere else. Something happened recently that made me take a step back. I met someone at an open networking event who runs corporate training and is writing a textbook alongside it. What she needs is her course turned into per-module walkthrough videos - her own slides on screen, voiceover over the top, one video per module. I built it as ICM, because that's just how I build now. Numbered stage folders, one agent reading the right files at the right moment, markdown carrying the context, and local scripts doing all the mechanical work that never needed a model in the first place. Her voice cloned from a module she'd already recorded, the deck walked and exported as frames, one script and one audio file per slide. The durations of those audio files become the cue sheet that stitches the whole thing together, so there's no separate timing step to get wrong. One module's through it end to end. 21 slides, 21 scripts, 21 audio files, one finished MP4. And there's around ten hours of modules to put through the same pipeline. As an 18-year-old that's a really good opportunity, and it's going to generate me some serious income. I wouldn't have built any of it without what I picked up in here first, so thank you to everyone who's answered a question of mine along the way. Nothing's finished yet. I've still got a lot to come and plenty I haven't cracked. It just felt worth stopping on rather than quietly getting on with the next thing.