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by stasomatic 12 days ago
For personal use I find "AI" extremely useful and fun.

I asked Claude to create a mini stack that email me a daily digest:

Today's weather, rain forecast. Top ten local news,US news, world news New HN articles, bubble up articles about bicycles, crafts, Japan, exclude Rust, Zig, Python, JS, Node, Bun. Summary of articles in my favorite subreddits.

A separate email summarizing new antique items on ShopGoodWill.com, with their starting prices, auction end dates.

Oh, and it configured Proxmox on my NUC and installed and configured the whole *arr stack.

Now, I am a techie, so I know what to tell it and could do all of the above myself with enough elbow grease, but I never would have. All of the above took under an hour.

Just this morning, I created a plugin so that Claude speaks to me as Samuel L. Jackson, or Arnold, etc. Fun fun.

Replaced 90% of my browser web searches. I don't know how many trees I burned and lakes dried.