Comment by skybrian

19 days ago

That’s pretty cool. Is it practical? What have you used it for?

I've been using it daily, so far it's built CLIs for hackernews, BBC news, weather, a todo manager, fetching/parsing webpages etc. I asked it to make a daily briefing one that just composes some of them. So the first thing it runs when I message it in the morning is the daily briefing which gives me a summary of top tech news/non-tech news, the weather, my open tasks between work/personal. I can ask for follow ups like "summarize the top 5 stories on HN" and it can fetch the content and show it to me in full or give me a bullet list of the key points.

Right now I'm thinking through how to make it more "proactive" even if it's just a cron that wakes it up, so it can do things like query my emails/calendar on an ongoing basis + send me alerts/messages I can respond to instead of me always having to message it first.