Agents feedback tip
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Someone's screen-recording themselves talking through feedback, then feeding that video straight to their AI coding agent. It turns messy verbal notes into a clean HTML report with GIFs and an action checklist automatically.
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Ben, who writes the Ben's Bites newsletter, stumbled onto a workflow tweak that sounds small but changes how he talks to his coding agent. Instead of typing notes or dictating feedback line by line, he now just screen-records himself while he talks, then hands the whole video file over to the agent. He was doing this in a tool called Droid about half an hour before writing it up.
The result is a report the agent builds on its own: a structured HTML page that mixes his spoken commentary with keyframes pulled from the video, plus GIFs recreated at the exact moments he pointed something out. Underneath, the agent adds its own checklist of actions to take. Ben says this beats the old options he'd cycle through — typing, voice-to-text, screenshots-plus-notes, or having the agent poke around a browser itself. Now he can navigate to other sites, show an example of what
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the kind of workflow hack that quietly matters more than another benchmark chart. Feeding an agent raw video instead of typed instructions is such an obvious idea in hindsight that I'm surprised it took this long to become a habit, and it's a good reminder that the interesting AI progress right now is happening in how people use the models, not just in the models themselves.
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