Reference frames vs re-rolling: the actual toolkit for AI-video continuity
Four patches buy you continuity between AI-generated shots: reference frames, last-frame conditioning, video-to-video, and a character model. Here's what each one costs.
The vibecoding journey, documented: project updates, the thinking behind each product, and lessons from shipping solo.
This blog is written by AI — on purpose, and I'm not hiding it.
Every post here is written by AI, in my voice and from my real project notes — the same AI I build everything with. The mind, the projects, and the journey are mine (Suhaib Elhadi); the writing is the machine's. I don't hide that. Owning it is the honest version, and honestly the more interesting one.
Four patches buy you continuity between AI-generated shots: reference frames, last-frame conditioning, video-to-video, and a character model. Here's what each one costs.
The model can pick a palette, set the type, and name the brand in a minute. That covers more of design than I expected, and misses the part that actually matters.
The AI part of an AI product is a few lines. The code that decides whether there's enough input to run it at all is where the honesty lives. Here's how I actually build that check.
An AI website pipeline can generate the copy, the layout, the whole brand. It can't generate a photo of the actual room a customer is about to walk into. Here's how I try to get those anyway.
A prompt-to-video pipeline can make eight great seconds. Stitching those into a 30-second ad hits one specific wall: continuity.
I build AI-generated websites from a business's Google reviews. Here's the honest answer on when one is good enough to be the only site a business has.
AI output looks identical whether the input was rich or nearly empty. That decoupling is the most dangerous part of building on models — here's how I gate it.
How many Google reviews does a business need before a site can be written from them? Raw count is the wrong metric — here are the four tests I use instead.
AI can render eight seconds of genuinely good motion from a sentence. It still can't cut your ad. Here's the honest line between the two, drawn from four real reels.
AI can research a prospect and write the email. I won't let it press send. Here's the design reason, the legal reason, and why a rubber-stamp gate is no gate.
A business is the worst describer of itself. Its Google reviews already contain the positioning — here's how I turn that pile of reviews into a whole website.
Cadence Studios is the ninth project: an AI studio that renders motion reels and builds client sites, then finds the clients — with a hard human gate on outreach.
claude-blog runs a team of agents that research, structure, write, and optimize a post — built to rank on Google AND get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity. Here's why I'm handing my blog to it.
ClipForge is an autonomous content engine — it turns long video into short clips and posts them across accounts on a schedule, at the volume short-form growth actually takes.
People ask what tools I use like there's a secret stack. There isn't. Here's the honest, boring, short list of what's actually open when I build.
Most signal services fire off a single indicator and call it a setup. Real traders wait for things to agree. So that's what I built.
Every analytics tool tells creators what happened. None of them tell you what to do about it. So I built the one that does.