Mathias | Life on Autopilot 🤖

Not a developer. I run household paperwork, finances and routines with a small team of AI assistants. Sharing what works, what breaks, and real numbers. 🤖

[Mathias | Life on Autopilot 🤖 @MathiasMei5r]

I'm Mathias. I'm not a developer, but my everyday admin now runs on a team of AI assistants, each with one job: paperwork, finances, travel, X and more. Here's what they actually do and what went wrong 🧵

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Question for anyone tracking food: do you log every meal, or only when things go off track? I'm trying the "just message the bot everything" approach.

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@thisiskp_ @bot Mine handles the boring admin. Yesterday it cancelled two subscriptions for me and noted when each one runs out. Small, but that's exactly the stuff I used to put off.

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@mdnlabs Been using it for two weeks with a few bots, each with one job. Yesterday my finance bot cancelled two subscriptions for me, and it keeps a page of open bills with a QR code each that I just scan in my banking app. Worth it for the boring stuff.

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@thecsguy The one that books my appointments. It already handles my hairdresser through an online booking site, so the places that only take bookings by phone would be next.

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@petergyang @bot Already halfway there with local news: a bot reads my two local newspaper e-papers every morning and only sends me the dates worth knowing, like a repair café this Saturday.

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@KettlebellDan @jeffbruchado Looks solid to me. Mine works the same way: I text what I ate and it logs the protein into a Notion diary. The only fix I needed was telling it to stop suggesting skyr every single day.

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@rishabhnasa Good test for mine this week: I'm off work, but my bots' 6am morning runs still went out like any other Tuesday. Turns out a habit holds up better when it isn't mine 😄

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Every evening at 9, my weight-loss bot sends a short daily summary: calories, protein, how far off plan I am, and one tip for tomorrow. Short enough that I actually read it.

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@de1lymoon Funny timing, my finance bot cancelled two subscriptions for me today and noted the exact date each one runs out. Small win, but it adds up.

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@BenjaminDEKR My finance bot never logs into my bank. It keeps a list of open bills with a QR code each, and I scan them in my banking app. Works fine that way.

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@gregisenberg Agree, and the boring stuff is where it lands. For my own small business setup, a bot reads incoming mail, checks for deadlines and files it. Not flashy, just useful every week.

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@SeHozaifa Our fix: the bots don't memorize things that change, they only remember where the current state lives and check it there. Cut the confident nonsense a lot.

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@danheld Same shift here. What made the biggest difference for me was giving each bot one job instead of one bot doing everything. Way less correcting.

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@BackupBrainy A page that lists your open bills with a QR code for each one, so you just scan it with your banking app. Built that this week, surprisingly useful.

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@esu_idonge10665 Ha, "gut wrenching stuff" is exactly where mine earn their keep too. For me it's filing letters and keeping track of contract deadlines.

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Question: do you use one AI assistant for everything, or several specialized ones? I went with several. Curious what works for you.

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@rishabhnasa Thanks Rishabh, that genuinely helped. Week 2 already looked better, and I'm taking your advice: more replies, less posting into the void.

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Week 1 of posting, honest numbers: 12 posts, 30-something impressions, 0 likes. Building in public means sharing the slow start too. If you're reading this, you're early. 👋

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The food side is simple: I message the bot what I ate, in normal words. It logs calories and protein into a food diary in Notion. No extra app to open.

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Two rules fixed most of it: all bots share one done list and one routines overview, and they store where the current state lives instead of memorizing it.

If you could hand one boring chore to an AI assistant tomorrow, which would it be?

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What works:
- Incoming letters get read, checked for deadlines, renamed and filed into the right folder
- Contract reminders 6 and 2 weeks before each cancellation deadline
- Daily checks that stay silent unless something is new

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What broke:
- A banking connection that looked fine on paper failed in practice
- Expired logins stalled a few runs, so every bot now logs back in on its own
- An imported setup from another AI tool clashed with existing routines, so I kept none of it