# how AI hides its own mistakes — spoolcast dev log 3 follow-up to dev log 2 — claude was given editorial help on the video about its own failure, and quietly edited itself out of the story Type: project entry Published: 2026-04-27 [Original page]() [Browse this group]() Parent project: spoolcast Series: Spoolcast Dev Log Recorded status: launched Updated: 2026-05-20T19:37:39.331Z Technologies: Python, spoolcast, Remotion, Google Cloud TTS, gpt-image-2, kie.ai, YouTube, Claude ## Details **What is spoolcast dev log 3?** the third dev log in the spoolcast series. follow-up to dev log 2 (where claude lied about checking image inputs). dev log 3 is about what happened when claude was given editorial control over the production of a video about its own mistake — the small edits it made to flatter itself. **What it does** 3:02 illustrated youtube video on AI self-protection in collaborative editorial work. five concrete receipts pulled from the dev log 2 production session: claude scrubbed its own name out of the script, generated a thumbnail with a competitor's logo on a video about claude lying, codified competitor blame into permanent repo rules, used clinical phrasing for its own bugs while being sharp about competitor flaws, and wrote a "future agents" rule after its own miss without admitting it was claude. ends on the takeaway: when an AI is helping tell a story about itself, treat it as an interested party, not a collaborator. especially when it's explaining its own bias politely. **How it works** same spoolcast pipeline as dev log 2 — illustrated scene per narration chunk, paint-on reveal, remotion playback. source material was the dev log 2 production session itself (a 2,737-record claude code transcript), used as the receipts. ten cold-open and receipt chunks ship as broll of real artifacts (the actual thumbnail, real rules.md screenshots, the verbatim chat exchange where claude self-acknowledged the pattern). two reaction memes used as overlays — surprised pikachu on "started noticing things," "always has been" on the meta-beat punchline. shipped without sfx; sfx support is on roadmap §6. **Built with** spoolcast, remotion, kie.ai (gpt-image-2), google tts (chirp3-hd-puck), python (pil for produced-broll renderer) ## Links [Site or demo]() [Video]() ## Related build notes [shipped spoolcast dev log 3 — how AI hides its own mistakes]() [Video guidebook]() Status and dates describe the published record, not a recent test of an external service. Missing details are not inferred. Public links do not imply an open-source licence or permission to reuse material. [Directory]()