My most productive day
Probably only the hundredth article about AI you've seen today!
Sunday, August 3rd 2025
On Friday I stayed up late to finish outling the plot for my next videogame...
Nothing fancy, just a bullet list of events with a bunch of details, characters, motivations, themes, etc...
I usually have the alarm clock set to 6.30 AM every day, but being so late, I set it to 8 AM.
The following is my Saturday morning:
- Woke up at 8 AM, cigarette, bathroom, cigarette, breakfast, cigarette, ...
- 8.30 I get on my laptop and dive into my game development endevours.
- First thing, the plot sounds cool, but I need feedback on it, so I asked Claude to turn my outline into
a proper prose that I can have someone read as a short novel.
- After proof reading the thing I sent it to a local TTS model (Kokoro) to get an audio version to share
with friends
- Go do some laundry
- Mow the loan
- Come back and, partially thanks to timezones, some friends where online and listened to it right away
- We discussed some minor changes, had Claude apply them
- Asked Claude to take my initial outline (which splits events into chapters/levels), list of characters,
and the prose, and come up with a list of contextualized dialogue lines for each character
- Made a Python script to dub them all with Eleven labs
- The result was a list of about ~150 mp3 files along the lines of "with clear anxiety in her voice she
said bla bla bla"
- Damn, it's good, but I only need the bla bla bla part...
- Searched for tools to trim audio files quickly, macOS preview allows you to trim videos very easily, but
apparently audio is too complicated for them... fine.
- Got Claude Code to make me an app where I can drag and drop a folder with mp3 files in it, display them
in a list with spectogram, sliders to trim audio start and end, controls to play audio and a save button
- Go hung the laundry
- Come back... One shotted, that's nice
- Spend 30 minutes trimming each audio file
- Task Claude Code with allowing attaching audio dubs to dialogue items, assign correct audio files for
the game prologue
- Go get groceries for a BBQ I have tonight
- Come back... One shotted, again
- Run some tests
- Prepare lunch
- Find some bugs, have Claude fix them while I eat
- All good, all fixed, lunch done, get coffee and lay down in the sun to relax a bit
- Realize it's still 11.30 AM
BBQ went nice btw