# How AI Became My Production Company

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Podcast: [The Flying Frisby - money, markets and more](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-flying-frisby-money-markets-and-more-161147)
Published: 2026-05-31T09:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/p/how-ai-became-my-production-company
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## Resource

Following on from last week’s piece about the extent to which I use AI , I’ve had a surprising number of messages asking which AI I actually use and what for. I should immediately stress that I am not some sort of AI guru. I know people use Claude to write code, automate businesses and build entire internal operating systems. That is beyond me. I can’t code. I’m a one-man band, who occasionally hires freelancers. I’m self-taught. But here’s what I actually use and what for. I stress the best method of all is trial and error. You get results quickly. If you don’t get what you’re looking for, adjust the prompt, or try a different app. Let’s start with the visual stuff. Pretty much every image accompanying my articles, such as the one above, is generated on Midjourney. I’ve experimented with ChatGPT, Grok and other image generators, but I like Midjourney’s images the most. My prompt is often just the article title plus the aspect ratio. Four options appear. I pick the best one. That alone would have seemed miraculous ten years ago. I also use Midjourney extensively for music videos. For example, in this video about the lighter side of hyperinflationary collapse, almost every visual was AI-generated from the lyrics. My editor, Goat, then used Runway to animate the images. We filmed my face against a green screen and plonked it on top afterwards. If Midjourney didn’t produce what I had in mind, I simply kept adjusting the prompt until it did, or I tried another image generator as a last resort Even as recently as five years ago, let alone twenty, to make a video like this would have cost hundreds of thousands, millions even, and taken many months. We would have needed teams of animators, post production specialists, Soho studio space and lord knows what else. That, to my mi…

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