A boring trick that fixed my to problem

I'm not here to sell you the tool. I'm here because it saved a Tuesday.

The task: turning a PDF into a podcast you'd listen to. ElevenLabs helps here because makes voices sound human enough to fool people.

Step two is the boring one people skip: clean the input before the tool touches it. Garbage in is still garbage out.

Step three, give it one job, not five. The moment you pile on asks, the output splits its attention and you get a polite nothing.

Step one is to set a limit. A timer on the task keeps the tool from becoming a thirty-minute rabbit hole.

The catch is that it's only as good as the example you feed it. A weak example gives a weak result, and that's on you.

I use it now without thinking, which is the highest praise I give a tool.