Comment by Schiendelman

No problem! It's worth following Simon Willison's blog, he keeps up with the latest AI releases and thinks through the potential consequences. I also like following Ethan Mollick, Tomasz Tunguz & Nate B Jones, though Tomasz is more focused on high-level business implications, and I only like some of Nate's videos. Nate's newsletter is unnecessarily long.

As for scheduling, it looks like Claude Desktop only allows scheduling a "routine" to occur once per hour, and it randomly selects when during that hour to execute (to smooth out Anthropic's compute). I think once an hour is too slow for what I'm after. I don't need to check email every minute, but sometimes that rapid response is useful if there's work I need done urgently by my agent. The "every minute" check is also useful for another workflow I have, where I can send "voicetexts" to my agent while I'm out walking. I have a vibe-coded Android app that records my message (which might be rambling on about some idea I have) then transcribes it & emails it to my agent. When the agent sees the terrible stream-of-thought transcription, it knows I'm out walking, so it will reply with a spoken MP3 instead, so I can listen while I keep walking. Claude's voice mode doesn't work for me, it doesn't have access to my tools, limits you to Sonnet models, and it wants you to speak in short sentences or paragraphs. Sometimes I just want to think all of my thoughts out loud, have the agent synthesize them more coherently, and comeback to me with push-back on my ideas or suggest additional implementation ideas.

Now that most people will have forgotten about this thread - if it helps, if you have AI questions you think I could help with, my contact details should be in my profile. I find HN is quite negative about AI, and it can be hard to find the people who are enthusiastic and trying to use AI for good and to make the world better. I have a hunch many of those people are "going dark" and avoiding public conversations - there's too much negative energy in return, and that drained energy is better used when directed at productive work. If people aren't already convinced about where AI is pointing, maybe they're just happier not participating. But that does seem to create a split where public spaces are for anti-AI conversations, and the enthusiasm for doing good with AI has gone somewhat underground.