“Claude cuts my TikTok”: How this creator is scaling video with AI | Brooke Lacey

About this episode

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. What you’ll learn: • How Claude Code edits a raw phone video on her computer in about 15 seconds • How she taught Claude her jump-cut cadence • Why her TikTok comments became her content brief • How she keeps growing her audience while posting just once a week—and what’s next • What over 25 years in tech taught her about this AI moment — Brought to you by: Firecrawl—Give your AI agents web data and beyond Auros—The human network behind AI — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Intro and guest welcome (02:30) Brooke’s background in video (06:56) Her first session cutting videos with Claude Code (08:51) Live demo: Claude edits a video in real time (11:05) Walking th