How I Accidentally Broke YouTube with Automation

Apparently, YouTube doesn't love it when you send them 75 videos in under a minute. Automation's going great. No, I fixed it. We're good. But anyways, I'll get into that. This channel is a daily update. And I'm Parker Rex. I led tech for a start that sold for 23 million bucks. And after that, I went all in on AI. I did some startupy stuff in between, but basically using AI every single day across coding, media, marketing, all the things. And on this channel, we do a quick review. We do Q&A and then we do some new stuff if it's worth yapping about. And then we do strategy, which is my favorite part. No offense, just the truth. Sometimes actually the questions are bangers, so sorry. Maybe I like the questions the most. PRD, PRD, PRD. I keep saying I'm going to release PRD stuff. I should just comment all these. But when you see something that has hundreds of comments and your channel has like four subscribers, you know that there's demand for it beyond just like a small pain. So I was like, I need to make a whole thing around this where whenever I get a prompt. I hate when I don't know, prompt management sucks. So I'm trying to solve that. And if I go a couple more days without putting out i5withai.com, then I'll go and just reply by like all these probably by Monday. But it has version control, so I want to do a new one. If you put your email in there, you get the new one. But yeah, good stuff, says Jason. Thanks, Jason. What a guy. Hi, Parker. I'm interested in joining your community, but I have a question first. I'm not experienced in programming. Do you have a step-by-step instructional manual on how to set up Cursor Taskmaster and the various files you mentioned in your videos? I think a lot of these are actually out across my YouTube videos, but I should make this because there are a lot of noobs. So, yeah, let me I forget. I have like so many hot keys. This is so boring for you to watch a step by step how to set up cursor path on AI. So, yeah, now we do once I do that other stuff I have to do add a send to Discord web hook. There's a lot of things, but cool. I'll reply to that. Good video. And with the new cursor rolling, the rule creations built in. Yeah, a lot of the built-in stuff, I will say, when you're using tech and you're not closer to the process, it gets a little bit annoying because it could mess it up and do it less effectively than you. So, I don't love that. This seems like a great workflow to make just about anything. I've seen a lot of people using NAN for automations and agent workflows, but it seems to me that having cursor build from a PRD might be best. Would NAN be any time savings coupled with this approach? Is it worth learning NADN? They're just different things. I don't think it's if if you want to go and learn NAN, then you're going to be making automations and that's awesome. You're learning how to use someone else's tool and you can't make net new stuff, if that makes sense. So it's a really valuable skill set, right? But if I were to choose the path and it was like, should I learn to code or should I learn n there's just no question in my mind like they are so totally different. It'd be like giving me a crayon versus giving me a ballpoint pen. The crayon to me is n and the ballpoint pen is learning how to code because literally you can do anything. It's insane. Especially now, I'll get into this towards the end of the video, but like it's absurd. Like learning how to learn is actually a skill and using AI to learn. Could this be used with VS Code inclined? Yeah, give me the rules. Cool. It'll be on I five with AI. Who's going to carry the code? That's who's going to carry the boats? Yes, you can soon do this. And yeah, I don't think there are any other questions on this channel. And then over here, can you share general cost? I covered that in yesterday's video. Cool. Let's get into the news. News, news, news. So, I am always on the hunt for good UI libraries and DICE UI is a good one. That's Studio Ghibli, not DICE UI. This is Dice UI. This whole thing's made in like Shad CN. Kind of nuts and it's made by this guy Sadman. Horrible username, but great developer. So, if I do GitHub and then I go to Sadman. This was a guy that I was learning the Nex.js JS app router from because he put out a project that what the heck he put out a project when the app router was brand new and I thought it'd be at the bottom it's not explaining exactly how to do all the things with the best practices for app outer and server actions. So here's Sadman 7 and his proof is just a banger as you can see skate shop. This is one that I was talking about and let's see when the first commit was actually first version clicker but if you're a UI guy or if you just develop in general and you are in the next world which I get it if you're not I'm slowly making my way away from it but you should check out his profile and DICE UI in general because it's got a lot of nice stuff it's got data tables that are beyond the normal shot CN one. He takes those primitives and then just adds to them like the views and the searchable columns and the statuses and it's all nice and clean, right? So there's that. There's I actually use this in a project. It's really nice looking. Got masonry. If you know what that is, masonry. An example of this would be like Pinterest. Like if you look at Pinterest and you want to know what masonry is, well voila, you're going to see masonry. See how the images are all different sizes and they're kind of cool looking? It's masonry. And let's see, next up is the cursor updates. So cursor added some stuff. Let's take a look. This I was talking about earlier with rules. But if you're under beta and you turn on early access and you'll get it and then just periodically go to check for updates up there. Cool. Then when you go back into general and you scroll down, sorry, features and you scroll down, you'll see a bunch of stuff that you normally wouldn't, which we're going to take a look at. So custom modes, I have this one on. I never use it. Place down on finish obviously. I'm going to turn auto groupoup back on. And then the new one is up here. It's include project structure. Include a simplified directory tree to give the model a sense of your codebase layout. What I'm wondering if that's behind the scenes or not. So let's take a look. This is my automation that I'm building. And I have no idea if there's going to be any different look to it, but I noticed obviously not most recent, but second most recent update has this nice little button here. And I don't see a tree anywhere. All right, if you guys didn't know that this little rules thing is toggleable. Say that word 10 times fast. Toggle. But what that means is if you have rules that you don't want to apply globally within just one request and you just turn it off. So there's that. And then I want to see if there's a tree. Past chats is a clutch one. Enter errors web recent changes. Yeah, I don't see anything about a tree. So we're gonna say this button. Do that. Make actually let's let's do a real thing. So, I'm going to grab I have a PRD in here and I have a video going out about PRDS tomorrow. It is Saturday the 19th at 11 a.m. PM and this goes out tomorrow, Easter Sunday for those who celebrate, but it's all about PRDS. And I was a product manager for like six years, so I know a thing or two about them. And you should check that video out on the main channel about PRDS. In this case, we have one. And what it's doing is we want to be able to do automated thumbnails. And so I just want to see how this works. So take a look at this file, then pull the directory structure data feature from cursor and use to see the other files in this project because you had at project. So maybe it's just something that's built in. Forget it. See what happens. I don't know what I was expecting to be honest. I guess is it just like supposed to be better? I have no idea. Well, if someone knows, let me know cuz I literally just saw it on Twitter. Cursor.com. Perhaps. Perhaps the change log is updated about it. Even though they have a gajillion dollars. See? Okay. Rolling. That was four days ago, bro. I know they have the generate rules thing, but I don't see the project structure. Project projects. Oh, here we go. We're introducing a new option. Project structure, which adds your directory structure to the prompt. Key bindings improvements. Okay, so I guess that's cool. I mean, I already have something like this that I use. So, my keyboard shortcuts, that is definitely not it. In here, I have at tree. What that does is if I go back into here and I pop one of these bad boys open and I go at tree, it's going to do nothing because it's in a terminal. If I do at tree, I can do that. And then I can do this. So I might be something like this where it just jams a tree in. No idea, but I'm guessing it's not. So that's cool. I'm excited about this project that I'm doing right now. It's going to save so much time and do all my thumbnails. is just going to be a banger. That's what I want to talk about towards the end of this video. That's project structure. Okay. Yeah. So, we get into this the sauce now. So, Grock is the goat at DevOps. What do I mean by that, Parker? What do you mean Grock is the goat with all these weird children you're saying? Well, what I mean is I don't know anything about DevOps, but now I'm like pretty skilled up on it. Just that I can get around, right? It's like if someone in the comments makes like 600 grand a year making decisions about databases on AWS, like please yell at me, but I doubt you're watching this. So, just little things like I'll have this massive thread and I am usually like the cursor guy like just keep me in there. But this is great because I just come in here and I'm like I'm trying to figure out like should I go this way? Should I go that way? And it started with a different task which is like I just want to have a bucket. Want a big old bucket just sitting here full of nothing. But I want to have a bucket here so I can drop in my videos. So I go from camera to computer in South Carolina aka GCP to computer in South Carolina, one of the Carolinas. There's a lot of computers talking to each other and I just wanted to literally like throw the 4K thing on there as the trigger and then boom, it starts doing everything that I ever want and I just have YouTube videos just show up and they look awesome and they have edits done and they got the voice sounding good so I don't have to do literally anything and this is a starting point. So I started with that and then that led me down a rabbit hole of oh my gosh, GCP is bananas where you could just do so much with it. You know, if you're like a little Versel pleb, which I am, have been, then you don't realize that like 300,000 compute seconds for free is bananas. How many times can I say bananas? I'll say some more times because you just get so much power with GCP and I didn't know that. So, I used Grock to start to know that. And if I look at my history of just the last couple days, it's like, okay, I have this chat one, right? or sorry the pricing one. But if I come in and I want to learn about automating the video processing and content creation and it's going to take a year to load. But if I go all the way to the top, come on, you can do it, Mac. Oh my gosh. If I go all the way at the top, it says, "Yo, I'm trying to build this thing out and I want to have raw daily and I want to have raw main and I want to have process main and process daily with dynamic folders based on the title of the file that lands." We just had a good sit down, like a long old old sitdown. And by the end of it, I mean, it's kind of working. Yeah, I broke Google a little bit. Yeah, I might have busted up this thing and burnt like 12 hours of my hourly credits or whatever with all these errors. But that's learning. And so now I realize I don't even need this thing. I shouldn't even be paying for this because I can just do it all myself with a couple functions for free. So that's cool. And that's why I wanted to y about gro because I'll have GCP listening. Drop it in here. It's listening to the bucket. The bucket says, "Yo, call this thing. Send it off to this service to do the whisper sort of like transcription thing." And then we're going to call another one. We'll be like, "Okay, cool. Write a blog post. Okay, cool. Write the description for the video. Okay, cool. Write a tweet thread. Okay, cool. And I can say these things and you get it. Like, it's going to do these things sequentially like a waterfall and it'll have human the loop the whole time. So, it's the stuff that I talked about a little while ago, but I'm actually doing it now. And then why Vertex? Well, this looks pretty cool, right? It's because they have literally everything in here. Like Vertex is part of GCP. This entire product is one of all these other things. So, I'm just blown away by it, right? It's like, cool, cloud storage, cool, I have all the APIs I could ever possibly want. Cool. Cloud run. Cool. Cloud functions. And it just took a couple hours to figure out, but like it's crazy. And if you want to do your studio jibli, like all the thumbnails that I'm making now are using this. So, I just literally upload a photo of me and then, tada. It's going to go do that. I'm just so impressed by it. like you don't have aspect ratios in other ones either for image gen. They have early access to the video one I believe and there's just so much stuff in here. I haven't played around with this stream real time thing very much but like that's a cool idea. Agent garden very cool. You have all this stuff in here. So I'm going to just start using this all the time and I still have my VPS that will handle all the Nex.js JS stuff. I I'm excited to expand on that side. So, I took it with Grock as far as I could and then I dump it in and I finish I finish it with Taskmaster. And so, that's what I was yapping about here. Cha-ching. Automations. this is what I'm going after in the long run because like if I can do all this stuff manually like I basically was like hey I should do this content thing because I like yapp and I didn't really take it serious and I posted like a little like six weeks ago I started posting and it's starting to work right so I didn't post at all on this other channel and I had like 5,3 5,500 and then I posted and then it's like 200 subs 200 subs and then just steady growth and then the other thing is with the daily where it's like cool six weeks in. It took me 13 months to get to 500 subscribers on my first on my product management YouTube channel, which is the one the main one, but then I did 500 subs in like I don't know pretty quick, right? So, it's just I guess it's consistency, but there is a whole lot of manual work around it. That's why I couldn't do the other one. So building the automations in is priority numero uno. And frankly why the video quality I feel like Parker's tired on the daily videos. It's like because I am my dude. I'm just like grinding out all the stuff manually while also building like two well really like I'm juggling like two SAS products and then the community and then the automation stuff. But the automation stuff is just like oh my gosh I'm so excited for it because like I could just literally talk about it all day because I'm so excited. But instead of talking about I'm doing it. And what I'm focused on now is in this thing. This is like one of the ones that GCP put out. But it's like basically Cloud Run can do a lot of stuff. It has this news scraper thing. It has access to your workspace, which who cares? But the news scraper thing combined with this trends data set, like I basically just can replace my whole entire process of pulling together like these crummy links. Like, oh, cool, Parker. Like, yeah, we're covering the news. You talked about a crappy Spotify player, this thing that Gar whoever posted about, and then you wrote the word Grock. Like, this this is Yeah. So, I need to make it better. And so, I'm looking at this and I'm like, "Oh my gosh, like I'm gonna have so much stuff." And I can do it a gazillion times a day across any sort of search that I want. So, it's like cool. I can feed this thing like forget like a little rinky dink fisher price version with no offense make.com where it's like I'm going to feed it a couple things from this RSS bundle and then the RSS bundle is going to break if I don't touch it for two weeks. I'm like, okay, let's let's level up. Let's learn a little bit of DevOps and figure this out. It's not even DevOps. It's literally like learning how to use a guey then maybe some technical skills. But I look at that and I'm like, that's sick. And I look at this Vertex AI search thing. This dude, he literally does a demo where he's like, I want to learn something about all the stuff that my college says on the internet. I went to University of Missouri and I want to look at the information about University of Missouri from Reddit. Okay, cool. That's in. I want it from Quora. Okay, that's in. Okay, I want their whole website. That one's in. And he just like throws all these things in. Like boom. Now the whole thing's vectorized and you got a store of everything about that and every mention from every website that you want. And what that means is it's like you can use that as a basis for all future content generation. So it's like boom image gen, boom summarization, text gen, and then you combine these two and it's just I'm just so excited. Like I can have a a looker data viz. That'd be over the top, but like I could do stuff that from a bird's eye view by using all of this powerful tooling, you can work on both the ideation, which increases the quality. You have such a broad spectrum of like macro trends going on and micro trends because they own YouTube. Like I can hand an array of every single YouTuber that I want to know what their take is on something. And instead of like going into Gemini and being like, "Here's a video Gemini." And being like, "What's this video about? uh let me tweak this prompt. It's like no, this prompt is already there. It's dialed and it's part of the funnel. So then you check like I want to just check something and it's like boom like here's the idea. Do you want to move forward? It's like yeah that's a good idea. Oo this is a really good idea because it's already market validated because people are yapping about it and engaging with this video or maybe there's a blog post that's like popping off that no YouTube bro has found that I'm like oh my gosh like I don't I got to actually implement this thing then I'll make the video. Yeah, doors are opening up basically with these these tools and I can't wait. I really can't like I even look at something like this like this doc grock thing that I made and it's like cool like what would happen if I just deploy this as an app? It would be like literally the definition of a rapper. It's like turn my docs into onepager.com. Horrible URL name, but it's possible. Like click a couple buttons. All right, I could talk about this all day. Sorry if it's not that structured. That's just some excitement coming through. And if you guys have any topics you do want me to talk about, then let me know. And until then, I'm hoping to get this done so I can have it all automated and then yeah, every video is going to be a banger. See you. Like and subscribe. That's it. Oh yeah, like and subscribe.