// 01 / shipped
the carousel engine
every post on the channel, from one terminal command. no canva.
- the problem
- making on-brand carousels by hand is slow and drifts off-brand the moment you're tired. i post a lot. doing it in canva was never going to scale, and it never looked like mine.
- the agent approach
- i built a render pipeline, not a one-off script. it researches what's trending in ai, hands me three prompt directions, and once i pick one it curates a full carousel in about ten seconds. a single brand-token file is the source of truth, so every slide stays on-brand. i drove it the way i drive every build: constraints first so nothing ships generic, plan before code, then a design pass that kills anything beige.
- the result
- three prompts in, a finished terminal-aesthetic carousel out in ten seconds, all on less than five dollars of tokens a year. it's the system behind every post on @thehotpath. and because i pick the prompt, it curates toward my taste over time instead of automating me out of the loop.
- the wait-this-works moment
- the part i'm proudest of: it never posts for me. it researches, it offers, i choose. the agent makes me faster; the taste stays mine. same idea as reins, just pointed at a feed.
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