Brooke Lacey has been making videos since before Facebook had video, and she built a TikTok audience of more than 290,000 by learning to cut short-form videos herself. With over 25 years in tech, she now builds her own apps, including Zosha, a free mobile app for learning AI. In this episode, Brooke walks me through the Claude Code, FFmpeg, and Whisper workflow that edits her TikToks in about 15 seconds, how she mines her comments for new scripts, and how she runs a weekly short-form operation with no editor.
How Claude Code edits a raw phone video on her computer in about 15 seconds
How she keeps growing her audience while posting just once a week—and what’s next
(15:58) How she taught Claude her cadence, her hooks, and what funny sounds like
(26:20) Posting frequency, live streaming plans, and TikTok ads
(28:00) Lightning round: Gen X, wisened experience, and YOLO energy
(32:43) When Claude disappoints: the lane OS, status files, and how she prompts it back