Nathan Broadbent

@DocSpring - POST JSON; GET PDF - Fill, generate, and sign PDFs via API. I also have some other interests

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

Experimenting with AI is expensive

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

And I can get it to find and extract PDF attachments from my emails and organize them nicely in Google Drive folders. So I think this is a worthwhile endeavor so far

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

Finally got around to setting up RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for all my data so my OpenClaw agent can find stuff. Decided to use Open WebUI for this and the oikb tool, and got OpenClaw to write a CLI tool to search the pgvector db

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

I wasn't sure if this would be useful, but I'm using it for a real project now - organizing travel. I now have my own private ChatGPT where I can ask things like "What are all the flights I booked for the next few weeks, and did I book baggage allowance?"

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

I just learned a whole lot about my 3D printer (Bambu Lab X1C.) Was getting an error: “Failed to load filament”.

Replaced the extruder gear assembly, replaced the filament sensor. Still not working.

Turns out it was a little kink in the PTFE tube behind the machine.

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

Unusable

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

Latest version of OpenClaw seems very buggy. Getting a ton of failed responses across multiple agents

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

ChatGPT has got to stop asking me which response I prefer. I'm not reading all that

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

This is the worst paper straw I’ve ever seen. Just completely unraveled

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

A robotic moving company would be cool too. Imagine pushing a button in an app, and robots pack up all your stuff and move it into a new house for you

[shift @joinshiftX]

Today, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free.

Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing.

In exchange, we record the cleaning. Robotics is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed.

By now, you have heard about the shift to AI more times than you can count. About the shift toward you, the part where you actually feel it, you have heard almost nothing. Shift is what starts to make it concrete, in specific cities, with specific services.

Today, cleaning in New York. Soon, handymen, repairs, and errands across the globe. And this is just one side of shift, with more on the way.

Comment “shift” and we’ll send you an early access link.

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

I think it’s probably pretty straightforward to build a conscious AI model, and AI labs have probably already built them in secret.

Publicly available LLMs don’t have consciousness almost by definition, because that’s how we use them with chat and coding agents.

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

Damn, I didn't realize that OpenAI wasn't sending me any invoice emails for ChatGPT Credits. Gotta be careful with my /goals in Codex

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

turns out that string theory is quite complicated. this might be too hard for gpt-5.5

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

Gonna use the new Codex /goal feature to solve string theory

https://t.co/vD2lzPVpH1

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

I have no idea how long this is going to take

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

I don’t really miss coding all that much. It’s way more fun to be super productive and ship a ton of features and bug fixes

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

I don’t seem to struggle with ADHD so much anymore now that AI agents are doing most of my work for me

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

The chat processing engine is open source on GitHub: https://t.co/dre4T2FpaP
You just need your own API keys and then you can process your chat exports locally on your own computer.

The https://t.co/pnboFXHmwa service is also currently 100% free to use during the beta.

[Nathan Broadbent @ndbroadbent]

I built an app that uses AI to find all the restaurants, trips, and activity ideas in your chat exports.

Here are the results for my WhatsApp chat with my wife. It found 83 activities in 19,526 messages:
https://t.co/nHy4aDMjyc