# Lee Winder — RSS Amplifier Everything Lee Winder publishes, via the RSS Amplifier directory. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Few Thoughts on Hiring and Being Hired](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/a-few-thoughts-on-hiring-and-being) _2026-01-09 · Talk To The Duck_ When I left Capital One, for the first time since my mid-20s, I had nothing lined up. No new job to go to, no small break before starting a new adventure, just an open book of what could come next. ## [Rethinking Early Careers in the Age of AI](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/rethinking-early-careers-in-the-age) _2025-12-27 · Talk To The Duck_ Early Career engineers were never there for the easy wins… they were, and still are, an investment in the next decade of leadership ## [Ambient Video Generation - Done (for now...)](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/ambient-video-generation-done-for) _2025-10-31 · Talk To The Duck_ Bringing the video together and sharing the lessons learnt along the way ## [Ambient Video Generation - Step 5](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/ambient-video-generation-step-5) _2025-10-21 · Talk To The Duck_ Exploring Stable Audio, ACE-Step & MusicGen for long-form generative music ## [Ambient Video Generation - Step 4](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/ambient-video-generation-step-4) _2025-10-14 · Talk To The Duck_ Switching to ComfyUI to create more modular, and less memory hungry, AI pipelines ## [My Approach to Setting Up Cursor](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/my-approach-to-setting-up-cursor) _2025-10-09 · Talk To The Duck_ How to stop treating your AI coding assistant like a magic box start getting more value per token ## [Ambient Video Generation - Step 3](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/ambient-music-generation-step-3-of) _2025-09-29 · Talk To The Duck_ Exploring Checkpoints, LoRAs & community models for more dynamic image generation ## [Ambient Video Generation - Step 2](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/ambient-music-generation-step-2-of) _2025-09-22 · Talk To The Duck_ Outpainting, Masks & Feathering - expanding SDXL Images to Widescreen ## [Ambient Video Generation - Step 1](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/ambient-video-creation-step-1-of) _2025-09-18 · Talk To The Duck_ Exploring SDXL, FLUX, Base & Refiner workflows and prompt engineering for image generation ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/695WdVRf8mwK) _2025-09-18 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when friends get the Graphite Business Card through your referral. ## [Keeping Photography Real In An AI World](https://talktotheduck.substack.com/p/keeping-photography-real-in-an-ai) _2025-09-14 · Talk To The Duck_ How I use AI tools to save time on repetitive tasks while ensuring the creativity and art remain mine, and respect the work of the designers and artists whose games I photograph