This Changes AI Writing Forever

0:00Hello, my name is Eel Herod and I have

0:02been working hard over the past uh two

0:06weeks, literally uh since I stopped uh

0:09posting every day for the app a day uh

0:13challenge, which by the way, it's still

0:15going very very well. I am literally

0:17coding every day. I just it trying to

0:20post every single day has started to

0:23really like make my head go crazy, but

0:25I'm not stopping the process. What I did

0:29was I built a thing. I built a thing

0:32that uh I think I'm calling it the

0:35Autobook Builder system. It actually it

0:38works a lot like Claudebot uh except I I

0:43can't remote into it yet. I'm going to

0:46try and figure out a way to maybe do

0:48that at some point. But uh I built a

0:51system that uh works inside of Codeex.

0:54It actually works inside of Claude Code

0:57also and [clears throat] it makes books

1:00for me. It helps me make books. Uh it's

1:02a system and what what I'm going to do

1:04and this is mostly for my people over at

1:07StoryHacker. I'm uh in that community uh

1:10now and I'm really enjoying the uh

1:12process of uh getting to know everybody.

1:14Very large community, [laughter]

1:16super huge community. I was surprised

1:19how big it is. It's I'm having so much

1:22fun building things and so I thought I

1:24would walk you and uh those people over

1:27at StoryHacker into I'm going to share

1:31what I perceive as a really fun system

1:36that hooks into uh your CLI uh with

1:39codeex. We'll just get into that in the

1:41first section. All right, let's talk uh

1:45let's talk book building. So this one is

1:47uh it's called the autobook builder.

1:49This presentation is called the Codeex

1:51Pipeline. The whole point of this is I'm

1:54going to probably be doing this as a

1:56presentation at different um book events

1:59and different things and I just want to

2:01be able to put it in front of everybody

2:03and I'm testing out this particular

2:05metaphor of building a building. So,

2:08we'll we'll see if it works. All right,

2:10let's jump right in. Oh, by the way,

2:12this is why AI matters.

2:22All right, now let's do this. Hi,

2:25welcome to this presentation on the

2:28codeex pipeline. All right. So, the

2:31whole idea when I first started this

2:33thing was that I wanted something that I

2:37could a Claudebot had been completely

2:41taking running the world by just taking

2:44the world by storm. And I decided I

2:46wanted to make something that wasn't

2:48quite there. wasn't quite all the way

2:51there, but it was helpful to me, which I

2:54write. I publish. I I wanted to be able

2:57to build something that could help me

3:00pipeline books and I could be the

3:03critiqueer and the tastemaker and making

3:05all of the story choices and really

3:08really taking this idea of the guesswork

3:13which is what is the biggest problem

3:16with AI is that it uses it the guesswork

3:21alone is a killer. You don't want it to

3:24hallucinate. You don't want it to veer

3:26off to the left, veer off to the right.

3:28And a lot of people have been trying to

3:30build these mechanisms and these

3:32programs and stuff like this. And I

3:34realized that when Codeex came out that

3:37I could use it to actually just build a

3:40system. And so what uh and what's the

3:44great thing about building a system with

3:45Codeex is that it's all local. it

3:49everything all and if you open it up to

3:52the entire system, you can go all the

3:54way down to the system level and have

3:56control over every single thing inside

4:00of your computer. This is very powerful

4:03because if you set up your GitHub and do

4:05all of these things, you can push your

4:09books or or even the vibe coded things

4:12that you're building. You can push those

4:14up to GitHub and they just sit up there

4:17for free and you can make them private

4:19and it doesn't cost you any money

4:20whatsoever. It's a free way to store

4:23your MD files. And I say MD files

4:27because uh there are several actual

4:30rappers that really that are word

4:33processor sort of rapper things like

4:36novel crafter like pseudorite typing

4:39mind like raptor write that all they all

4:44literally give you the ability to read

4:48MD files and computers love MD files and

4:52you can read MD files really well

4:54because computers can translate it into

4:56bold or whatever it is with all of those

4:59symbols and everything. So you have the

5:01ability with this new paradigm to

5:06communicate with a computer in a format

5:08that it already likes and loves. So you

5:11have all of that control. So now what I

5:14first did was when I was developing this

5:16system, I was trying to figure out uh

5:19the best way to have pros pop out the

5:22other end. So, I kept tweaking things

5:24and I'm going to be releasing all of

5:26this code. It's going to be public and

5:28I'm just going to release the whole

5:30thing. I was being very precious with it

5:32at first, but I was like, "Wait a

5:33minute, that's just dumb. If I release

5:35the whole thing to you, maybe somebody

5:37else out there can improve uh the

5:39thing." I've got a front end that uh

5:42that that you can actually use to uh

5:46fiddle around with it. And maybe later

5:47in the video, I will show you that front

5:50end. Actually, as a matter of fact, I

5:51will show you that front end. Okay, so I

5:54used the silent witness and I looked at

5:56the input. It generated output. I

5:59identified the flaws. I modified the

6:01skill logic and reran the pipeline over

6:05and over again until I got the thing

6:07that I wanted. And that's that's kind of

6:10the most important part is that you you

6:13make it your own one. You make it your

6:16own and then it becomes your voice. And

6:18that so that's what I did. I made it my

6:20own. It isn't necessarily just my voice

6:23either. Uh when you're building your

6:25dossier, it should give you an

6:27opportunity to really talk about first

6:29person, third person, you know, past

6:32tense, present tense, whatever you want.

6:34You should be able in the bookbrain

6:36builder be able to do that. And if it

6:39doesn't do that, I will make sure to

6:41tweak that skill to make sure that works

6:43and then push it up to everything. Okay,

6:47so now you know how I really kind of

6:50worked on this in the middle. So this is

6:53my seven stages that I actually use when

6:57I'm building um a book. I built the this

7:00thing called the book brain builder.

7:02That's step number two. Step one is to

7:05just use a any dictation software you

7:09want. I like Whisper. I love Whisper. As

7:12a matter of fact, it's spelled a little

7:13differently than this, but I love

7:15Whisper myself. I use it on my laptop. I

7:18don't use it on my main computer, which

7:20I'm really starting to regret. I really

7:22think I need to change it. Next, I have

7:25something that helps me build. I made a

7:28skill, and this skill helps me build,

7:32right? Uh, and that's the whole point of

7:34this machine is that all of these things

7:36hook into Codeex and Claude, right? So,

7:39this is a skill. uh and I had it I just

7:43talked to it and said, "Hey, I want

7:45something that gives me holistic sort of

7:48uh questions so that I can answer uh

7:50questions." And uh I should have given

7:52it a limit uh the skill of limit because

7:54it likes to go on and on and on and on,

7:57which I should probably change that at

7:59some point, but it helps you holistic

8:01holistically get to the uh the the meat

8:04of your story, right? Everything about

8:08your story. It really is trying to pull

8:10all of the nuggets out so that it can

8:13not have to guess. Then you use the

8:15dossier evaluation squad, something I

8:18picked up from the future fiction

8:20academy. There was a um they they had

8:23this whole concept of all these things.

8:25And so I asked uh I used that idea of

8:29all those different things and I asked

8:31the AI to build me a skill that could

8:33actually do that thing. Now, this is one

8:36big thing that you're going to have to

8:37start remembering. these this is

8:39something you can do every single time

8:42you have some kind of thing that you

8:44want to do whether it's um building out

8:47a dossier for a book or um making

8:52a marketing plan you should build a

8:54skill once you figure it out and how to

8:57do it with AI then build a skill let it

9:00do it it's so awesome then after I do

9:04the dossier evaluation squad the

9:07autobook book builder is what I do next.

9:10Okay, the autobook builder is what I do

9:13next. And then um and that is a skill.

9:15The dossier evaluation squad is a skill.

9:17The book brain builder is a skill,

9:20right? Claude co-worker

9:25is the final skill. It's the one that

9:27builds the chapters, uh puts everything

9:30in folders, puts everything in a

9:32specific space for you and all of that

9:35stuff. And then after I get all of that

9:38built up in in codeex, I go over to

9:41claude code to fatten it up. And I do

9:44mean fatten it up. It has so many

9:46metaphors and simileies and all of these

9:49things that it adds to it. And then I

9:52scrape off all of that extra layer cake

9:55stuff uh so that the th so that the

9:58layer of uh frosting is nice and taut to

10:02that cake. And then after I get all done

10:04with all of that, I drop it into my MD

10:07editor of choice, which is Raptorite.

10:09You can use Novelcfter. You can uh you

10:12can use a lot of different sorts of uh

10:16things to get this done. I like to use

10:20claw. I like to use uh codeex to build

10:23me a file system inside of my own

10:25computer, right? and then put MD files

10:29in there and also DOCX files as backup

10:32files in another folder. That way I have

10:34two versions of it in two separate

10:37folders. But if it does if something

10:40doesn't read it well, I can just go

10:42straight to the DOCX file and just have

10:44it read it. It's really, really easy.

10:46And then after all of that is done, I

10:48have an audio loop. And that audio loop

10:51is absolutely mindblowing to me because

10:54I get to listen to whether or not there

10:57are mistakes. Now, let's talk about the

11:00voice first thing.

11:02[sighs and gasps]

11:03If you do not talk to your AI, you are

11:07missing out on exactly what um the

11:12potential that you could have. meaning

11:15that there's a lot of times very

11:18interesting nuance things that you just

11:19say out of your mouth and it ends up

11:22being important something that you

11:24didn't even think about especially for

11:26people who are making stories. So when

11:28you decide that this is the path for

11:32you, right, I say start with dictation.

11:36So the book brain builder has a nice

11:38little blueprint. It does style traits.

11:41It does a blueprint of the actual story.

11:44It has three different reports that it

11:46does. It does a readiness report, a go

11:49no-go sort of report, a style trait

11:52report, and a blueprint. All of this

11:55stuff becomes the brain of this perfect

12:00story that you are building. If it's

12:01something that you really are passionate

12:03about or something that you have already

12:06made a lot of documentation uh with, you

12:09can feed those documents. You can add

12:11those documents and feed those documents

12:13in and it will populate that sort of

12:16thing. It will listen to actual audio

12:19files that you have and it will

12:23translate those audio files. I'm

12:25knocking myself over here. And translate

12:27those audio files. It's amazing. A great

12:31skill. Like I said, uh the Darcier

12:34Evaluation Squad is the Atlas, which is

12:37the the structure, the the psyche, which

12:40is the characters, the nova, which is

12:43kind of the concept, the whole over the

12:46whole concept, uh the entire uh idea

12:50from nuts to bolts, the tempo. So how

12:55whether or not it's moving at a pace

12:57that really kind of clips along and what

13:01is that niche and it really looks at

13:03that stuff gives it a score and as it

13:07decide as all those different things

13:08decide they all become it spawns these

13:11agents and those agents actually have

13:14like conflict with each other and figure

13:17it out and then I build the book right

13:22this is the skeleton Right. The power

13:24this is powered by codeex. It actually I

13:27just use my CLI my codeex CLI that in

13:32the desktop app and I build with that

13:36skill. And the skill I it's I'm going to

13:39be putting it out. So you'll definitely

13:41get a chance to uh see it. uh it's kind

13:44of part of this whole uh video that I'm

13:46doing right now so that you have this as

13:49a kind of guide to what you can do with

13:53this thing. Okay, the codeex it consumes

13:56the validated doc uh dossier. It drafts

14:00chapter by chapter respecting

14:02continuity. It creates a excellent an

14:06excellent structure and scaffolding and

14:09I tested it over and over again and it

14:11improved my stuff immensely. If you are

14:14not having as good a luck, you could go

14:16in there and say, "Hey, what is this?

14:18I'm having a problem with this. Look at

14:21this skill. Tell me why it isn't working

14:23like I want it to work and then get it

14:25to work for you the way you want it to

14:27work." And then clawed code kind of uh

14:31it does the thing where it [laughter] it

14:35it it

14:38adds a lot to it. It adds a lot of meat

14:42and potatoes to that entire meal, not

14:46just vegetables. Okay. It's kind of lean

14:49when it comes out of codeex uh codeex

14:52and and and a little not analytical but

14:56it gets to the point and gives you great

14:58structure for Claude to then add a lot

15:01of

15:03interesting deep sort of emotions and

15:07smart phrasing and all of that stuff.

15:09Now we get to the human feedback loop,

15:12right? Once I get that thing, once I

15:15listen to it, honestly, once I listen to

15:18it on 11 Labs and then I hear the actual

15:23thing and whether it's singing to me or

15:27not and then you and when it starts

15:29making mistakes or not even mistakes,

15:32but actual it's actually having um this

15:37where where it's it's constantly going.

15:40Claude is famous for this where it

15:42constantly goes back and starts saying

15:45like the longest way to get to the end

15:48of a sentence it could possibly do it.

15:50Uh explaining every nuanced emotion as

15:52it goes along. It's just a pain in the

15:54to. So what I want you to do is look at

15:58that as a opportunity. This is these are

16:02opportunity taxes that we're going for

16:04here. This is amazing if you ask me. If

16:08you ask me, this is amazing because then

16:10you get to peel back and look at it and

16:14and think about it and then go into

16:16Raptorite and really fine-tune

16:19everything. Skills are tools, okay? They

16:24give you the ability to do anything,

16:29anything you can think of. So, what I

16:31want you to do is start thinking about

16:33what is that thing that you can do,

16:36right? What is that thing that you

16:38personally need? And then once you

16:42figure out how to get the AI to do it,

16:45then

16:47[laughter]

16:49you ask it to make the skill. That's all

16:51I want you to do. And then over and over

16:52and over again, this is going to work

16:54out really well for you. Uh because

16:56you'll become way more proficient in the

16:58ability to make these things for real.

17:01Make these things. You don't have to

17:03make this yourself. You can make some

17:05other system. But I'm hoping that this

17:07gives you the spurs your imagination on

17:10because you are a universal architect.

17:13You are the person that is imagining

17:17every single solitary moment, every

17:20nuance, every heartbreak, every action

17:23scene, every hit, every punch, every

17:26space opery sort of epic adventure

17:30thing. You are the person that's doing

17:32all of that stuff. And one of the cool

17:33things about um about AI and why this

17:37matters so much in AI is it gives you

17:41you who are already a person who steps

17:44out of your way and builds books. It

17:47gives you way more agency to find the to

17:53find an idea out of just a thought. You

17:56can start thinking about an idea and

17:58then just dictate to this system. You

18:02can dictate to this system exactly what

18:05you want and be the architect. Be the

18:09person, the builder of the world, the

18:11world builder. Here's some specs on how

18:15this all works. Now, what I love about

18:18this is that it gives you a very kind of

18:22uh top level down sort of idea of how to

18:26do this. All I want you to do is if you

18:28want I'll try and make sure that I

18:30include uh well actually I probably

18:32won't include this but you could

18:34actually take my transcript from this

18:36video and feed it into an AI and it will

18:39probably build this thing for you. It

18:41probably build this thing for you. All

18:43right. And uh that's pretty much it for

18:46uh how you do this. Now I'm going to do

18:49one other thing and I'm going to show

18:51you all the uh very cool app that I

18:55built. So the way that I built this is

19:00pretty simple. I built the backend first

19:03and had it all working inside of codeex.

19:07I built the skills and the skills are a

19:10component, right? And uh each one of the

19:12skills do a does a thing in sequence.

19:15And so I wanted to build a frontend,

19:17something that I could uh use its

19:20natural ability to do things like uh um

19:23dictation and stuff like that and build

19:26it into an app where I could just do it

19:28myself. I could it's it's a front end.

19:31So here's the here's what the front end

19:34actually looks like, right? The autobook

19:36builder. And at the bottom here at the

19:39bottom here, there is this thing that

19:41says advanced workflow, which I'll show

19:43you in a second. But what we have, there

19:46we go. When you first look at this, and

19:49you'll see right here, it says autobook

19:51builder first uh voice first story

19:54intake with codeex CLI as the local

19:58brain. Okay. if you install CLI uh

20:02codeex uh on your computer and install

20:06the CLI in the background and make sure

20:08I'm pretty sure it does when you install

20:11the actual codeex app it will install

20:14the CLI then you can hook I have a I

20:18have an onboarding uh thing that I am

20:20building out right now and you can have

20:23this basically on your computer using

20:26your subscription to chat GPT P and you

20:31can have it work as the uh background to

20:34this application right here. There right

20:38there. Uh I'm actually it's

20:42anyway. So this application this

20:46application right here is is like

20:48something that I just started thinking

20:50about yesterday and I decided to build

20:54out the front end. I had already worked

20:56on the back end a long time ago, but I

20:58decided I really wanted to build out the

21:00front end. And so that's what I did was

21:02I built out the front end. And uh I put

21:05it in my favorite team's colors. And uh

21:08it's it it works. It works. The actual

21:13let me see here. You have to start a

21:15session in order to start this whole

21:17thing. And then when you start a

21:19session, it says to you where do you

21:21want to um have this thing actually

21:23happen? say use this folder. You want to

21:26choose a different folder. It actually

21:28opens up my uh my Apple thing. And I'm

21:32going to put in here. I'm going to put a

21:35new folder. We'll call this Yan Rolo.

21:39Space Navy. There we go. Space Navy.

21:44Okay. And basically, I've got I'm

21:47already I've already started this whole

21:50thing up right here. And it's ready to

21:53go. All I have to do is click this. It

21:55asks me to uh allow my microphone and I

21:59talk. Hey, how you doing? I want to

22:02actually write a story about a uh young

22:06woman who uh finds a pendant and it

22:09gives her superpowers. And there it is.

22:12And if you could uh let me know uh if

22:15this is a viable story, it would be

22:18really cool.

22:23I'm g turn off the microphone right

22:25there. Okay. And I turned off the

22:27microphone so that it wouldn't just pick

22:29up my next phrase. And as you can see,

22:31the builder right here responded.

22:34And uh I and it is hooked up to my uh

22:37codeex. It is using codeex as its brain.

22:41And as I am making things, it has out uh

22:44it has places where it can export

22:46things. I have a master save up here. So

22:49I can export things at the master save.

22:51I can launch the autobook builder. I can

22:53run the evaluation. This is the whole

22:56process. I can you know what? I should

22:58probably have that autobook builder on

22:59the other side of this run evaluation.

23:02I'll have to change that later. Okay. So

23:06the start session right launches the uh

23:12book brain builder. You run the

23:14evaluation and the run evaluation runs

23:17the dossia evaluation squad and then you

23:20can actually launch the autobook builder

23:22and you can do it all up here. But there

23:24is an advanced section. So if I click on

23:27this advanced section right here and

23:29this advanced section you can pick your

23:32model. You can pick where you want to

23:35put things specific things. You can have

23:38an export folder. You can have a

23:40workspace folder. you can have a place

23:42and you can designate that you want to

23:44use these specific skills. So if you

23:46wanted to collect a bunch of skills or

23:48something like that uh and use the

23:50skills you're using the ones that are in

23:52the codeex folder right here. So and

23:55it'll give you a list of the ones in the

23:58folder. So if you add more it'll add

24:01more for you uh as you add more. At

24:04least I'm pretty sure that's what it'll

24:06do. Uh, but it does have uh access. You

24:08can turn so you can do a big old manual

24:11way of building a bunch of stuff right

24:13here, which is really cool to me. I I

24:17really love the ability to really dig

24:20deep into every single aspect and the

24:23fact that it built all this for me in

24:25order to really say, "Hey, you know, you

24:27have a easy mode and a and a hard mode."

24:30And it made the hard mo

24:32really hard, but it works really well.

24:35And that's my interface for the auto

24:38book builder. It's a lot of fun. I'm

24:42having a lot of fun. And I will probably

24:43have a repo of this up tomorrow. I'm

24:46going to put this video out. I'm pretty

24:48sure I don't even think I really need to

24:51do that much editing on this video

24:54because it flow flow flowed. But other

24:57than that, I hope that you enjoyed this

25:00little primer for what I hope is a

25:03really cool product that is not really a

25:06product. It's just an open-source uh

25:09product that you can use yourself. It's

25:11called the Auto Book Builder. Now,

25:15remember, when you start doing this,

25:17you're going to need lots of

25:18prerequisites and stuff like that. All

25:20you have to do is install the codeex

25:22app, install the Claude code app and it

25:28they will both ask you for specific

25:30things and uh and specific types of uh

25:33software and stuff like that and it'll

25:35just get you going and then you can

25:38install this and then it'll say, "Hey,

25:39you don't have this installed." You'll

25:41install that new stuff and you'll give

25:42it permission. Uh Codex has a thing at

25:45the bottom where it gives you full you

25:46can uh give it full access to your

25:48computer. I suggest that you do that and

25:52uh make sure that when you do do that

25:55that you are specifying when you

25:57actually want it to make uh take actions

25:59and when you don't just say out loud I

26:02don't want you to actually do anything

26:03right now. I just want you to look at

26:06this thing or listen to my problem and

26:09figure this thing out. So, this is the

26:12autobook builder. And what's so cool

26:14about it is as you keep going, it starts

26:17filling out your markdown files

26:21automatically inside of a folder that

26:23you've already designated. I have a

26:25onboarding thing and a whole nine yards

26:28that helps you set it up from the

26:30beginning when you open up the repo and

26:33have Codex read the repo and and start

26:36implementing the thing in the repo,

26:38which is probably something that I could

26:39teach you how to do in another video.

26:42All right, everyone. My name is Eel

26:43O'Hara. This is why AI matters, and I

26:46pretty much just showed you a whole new

26:49way to write books, and you can have it

26:53for free. So hopefully I'll have it out

26:56uh either when this video goes out or

26:59the day after this video goes out and

27:01I'll put up like a community post. As a

27:03matter of fact, I'll probably put the

27:05article that I wrote uh about

27:10about this thing. I'll put that article

27:13up on YouTube. All right, everyone. My

27:16name is Eel Herod. This is why AI

27:19matters. And why does AI matter today?

27:22Because if you put your mind to it, AI

27:26can help you publish as many books as

27:29you want, make movies, make anything. I

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27:41boy, we living in the future, y'all.

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