Claude killed editors, lawyers are next

hello everyone 👋,

Quick update: this newsletter just crossed 16,000 subscribers, and more than 2,000 of you joined in the last week alone, so welcome in 🙌

A lot of you came from my free editing skills, which works out nicely because AI editing is this week's main story.

This week is all about AI doing real things.

I'm talking about firing your editors because Claude can now edit your videos for you, AI becoming your lawyer (this one still needs a bit more testing), my AI agent doing my election homework, and a skill I built that reverse-engineers any viral carousel.

So let’s get into it.

A few weeks ago I told you I fired my editor and used Claude Opus 5.5 to edit an entire YouTube video.

Since then, AI editing has got a lot better, but most AI edits still look like AI edits.

I mean the obvious giveaway signs:

The fix is giving it references.

Claude has no taste of its own, so instead of asking it to make something look good, give it examples to copy.

It's way better at copying taste than developing its own lol.

Put these in one folder:

Then ask Claude to study the captions, pacing, graphics and audio, and write a style sheet where every rule points back to the video it came from.

Keep a file called edit-rules.md with three kinds of rules:

Every correction goes in, so each edit comes out better than the last.

Claude Code can do the whole edit with code on your own computer, using free tools like ffmpeg (the engine behind most video apps).

The free ffmpeg-skill gives it ready-made tools for cuts, silence removal, captions and resizing for every platform, with no API keys.

Cuts first (the last clean take of each line, cut between words), then colour, captions, graphics, b-roll (the extra clips you cut away to) and audio.

Have it render a quick preview after each pass so you can approve it before it moves on.

Have it make 3 to 5 versions of the opening for every video.

A few settings worth stealing (just give these to Claude):

It's not one click yet.

The final pass on one video can still take about 3 hours and 60 notes, but every one of those notes becomes a rule, so the next video needs fewer.

The editing itself runs on your own computer and doesn't cost anything beyond your Claude plan.

You can just copy and paste this whole section into Claude (or ChatGPT), and it'll set everything up for you.

Here are the Claude animation skills I built over the last two weeks (and they're actually really good).

👉 Grab them for free on GitHub

I found this story quite funny and also a glimpse to what AI in Legal would be in couple of years.

A US business owner asked Meta's AI agent, Muse, to sue a company on his behalf in small claims court (the quick, cheap court for smaller amounts, where you don't need a lawyer).

Muse filed the case at the start of October, and this week he posted the update ⬇️

He says the company offered to settle within 20 minutes of being served.

Ten days later it had paid him, plus extra to cover his costs, and Muse filed the paperwork to close the case.

And coincidentally, Claude dropped a banger legal update the same week, which is pretty ironic timing.

Anthropic added a gallery of ready-made legal tools to Claude for Legal (its version of Claude for law firms), and they can:

Every answer links back to where it came from, so you can double-check it.

I genuinely think legal might be fully automated in a few years.

Most of the work is reading documents, checking them against rules and writing letters, which is exactly what AI is already good at.

Look at this week alone: an AI agent filed a real claim and got paid, and Anthropic is giving law firms tools that do the checking for them.

The simple stuff like demand letters, small claims and contract reviews will probably go first, and the rest won't be far behind.

NZ votes this Saturday, and a week ago I still wasn't sure who to vote for.

So I opened Grok Bot (the AI agent I use) and sent it a very messy, very sweary request ⬇️

I got my own suburb wrong and mixed up the name of my electorate.

It asked one quick question to check, worked out what I meant, and got started anyway.

A bit later it sent me a full voter guide as its own web page:

Then I realised it was way too much to read, so I asked it to "just create a quiz for me".

It built that too: 15 multiple-choice questions where you mark how much each issue matters to you.

At the end it ranks every party by how well it matches your answers, with a source for each position.

It never told me who it thought I should vote for. It matched the parties to my own answers, showed its sources and left the call to me.

I think this is what AI agents are actually good at: taking a big, messy decision off your plate and handing you back something finished.

And these AI agents are getting more capable every day. Just this month, Grok Bot learned to:

I built a skill that takes any viral carousel and breaks down exactly why it worked.

Find one that blew up in Top Carousels, paste its link into ChatGPT or Claude and say "recreate it".

Your AI tells you why it worked (the hook, the structure, the design), then pitches 3 versions for your niche based on what it already knows about you.

If it doesn't know you yet, it asks what you post about. Pick one and it writes every slide and the caption, then makes the slides in the same style.

It runs on the Top Carousels MCP, so it works right inside ChatGPT and Claude.

Using it inside Claude

What it gives you

Setup takes about 2 minutes, step by step here.

It's out now and you can start for free here :)

→ Taste Skill: a free skill that gives your coding agent some design taste, so your sites stop looking like every other AI-built site.

→ Bro skill: makes your AI re-explain its last answer in plain English, for when a reply makes you go "bro, what?" (works with Claude Code and Codex).

A few things worth your time this week that aren't AI news.

→ How to Make $1,000,000 from Social Media in 12 Months: the best podcast I've listened to on social media, covering how to grow your accounts and the different ways to make money from them.

→ Attention is all we have: a 700K+ view post on keeping a clear head when everything is fighting for your attention. The best bits:

→ ADHD music: a 30-minute playlist that's helped me stay focused for hours (most of the time).

That's it for this week.

See you next Sunday,