braden ballestero

Just a guy being a dude trying to use AI. I’ll tell you how it goes

[braden ballestero @ballestero_a1]

I have been using ChatGPT/Codex to order my Walmart groceries and it has been phenomenal.

I have HomePods around the house that add groceries to my Apple Reminders grocery list. Then that list gets pulled into Home Assistant.

ChatGPT uses that HA list to add things to my cart so throughout the week things are being added to my cart and all I did was tell Siri to add it to the list.

That’s only about half of it though because on Saturday mornings, I open up the Voice mode and start blabbering about what I want to eat this week for like 10 minutes and clarify any questions it has for the meal plan.

I take that meal plan to ChatGPT and have it add all of the meals to my cart

I’m not brave enough to let it hit order just yet. I do one glance over it and then order it.

But like it gets things right 99% of the time. One mistake was my fault and all I did was add corn to the list but I never specified that I wanted corn on the cob and it looks at recent purchases to know which products to get and the most recent corn I got was canned.

Definitely makes me feel like I’m living in the future though

I’m doing all of this with 5.6 Luna Max on the Plus subscription btw. Super doable and I don’t even notice the quota hit cause Luna is so cheap

@kobex___ any tips on how to take this to the next level?

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@nvandewetering Idk how far away Bel is but I feel like they need to drop it soon to stay on top of the game

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I turned on the grayscale setting for my phone this weekend. Now everything looks horrible. Hopefully it’ll be good for me. Gotta break the phone addiction haha

[braden ballestero @ballestero_a1]

@ForwardEditor Bro I fumbled so hard. In bed at 11 and baby was up all night haha

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@amitmuflis Do you feel that an increase in token cost for the team of bots was worth it to run that kind of workflow? Also I wonder how muse or dots would compare

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@maweaac No one knows what Wispr Flow is but it’s like my favorite non chatbot ai tool

Also had a similar experience with using Claude and my uncle was like, what even is that

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@aiveryhuman @jxnlco Yea but like if I’m telling chat to look at Walmart for grocery items and add them to my cart, I feel like I shouldn’t have to specify the cloud browser. Especially since it was a feature release where they had a bunch of posts about it. I feel like it shouldn’t be a hidden tool

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One thing that I keep running into with ChatGPT Work is that I have to specify that I want it to use the cloud browser. It won’t just know to use the browser. It’s fine for me cause I know to ask for it but someone like my mom would never know to even ask @jxnlco could it be the model I’m using or is that just a quirk with Work mode

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@TokenGremlin @CodeByNZ They need a separate thank you quota. Like Luna reserves but for thanks

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@CodeByNZ @TokenGremlin I mean I think the majority of people don’t realize any of the agentic capability so it’s literally just a chatbot that makes their emails sound less angry

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@TokenGremlin Is there a chance that they put 6.2 Astra or Sol as an isntant model that blows everyone away?

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@kimmonismus My dad still calls it a better google. I think people don't understand all that AI is capable of so it doesn't make sense to them that we need all of these data centers

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@Angaisb_ Tough. Honestly sucks. Hope theyll prove you wrong but time will tell ig

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@b1rkh0ff Is using wispr flow the same as pasting or does it mark that sort of thing differently

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@BuiltItToday @nicbstme What if I use voice to text?

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@nicbstme That's tough as someone who wants and is trying to grow their X account by networking through commenting

but I get it seeing AI slop every day is exhausting

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@its_LtDan I need an agent that notices things happening in my digital work life and offers to take care of it for me. Eventually I could see them getting to a point where they don’t have to ask for permission and they can just look at my meeting transcripts and take care of stuff

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@blueemi99 But what should I say

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@dummerspast39 Definitely is whalefare. Do Astra next.

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@TJeparskis I could see that. Stinks for those of us that have been Plus users for years. My ambition is feeling limited by the Plus sub especially since Astra though. So tempted by a $50 plan ngl

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@Voiskeyofficial @theofinr But what if it’s both x and y