Got around to the Claude Code docs from Anthropic. I generally love reading docs and various guides from AI tool creators lately. There's always a lot of interesting stuff about how they can actually be used. And most often it's some pretty transferable experience between tools.
But that's not the point. I suddenly got too lazy to read, wanted to study the topic in AFK mode somehow. Remembered that Google's Notebook LM can generate a podcast on any given topic. Fed it the PDF from this page, told it to retell... and was blown away by how cool and lively it sounds.
This is one of those moments when I'm really amazed at how we're living in the future, damn. There's a really live conversation where both "hosts" help each other, agree, clarify something. I mean, this is already better than most existing podcasts. And even at first impressions, you can't tell that these are robots talking to each other. I don't know why I haven't looked in this direction before. Attached the finished audio to the post so you can also appreciate how cool this is.
Now I'm going to generate all those piles of bookmarks that I was too lazy to go through sitting at the computer in the form of podcasts for my walks.
PS. This same feature seems to exist in the Gemini interface when you do Deep Research. But I've never been able to use it there. The button is there, I can click it, but "I'm just a language model, and I don't have that capability".