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Overcomplicating simple things with AI. Not an engineer, just stubborn.

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@harjjotsinghh Learned this the hard way when two agents fought over the same file for an hour. Wish I'd seen this a week ago.

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@rozgaarrhythms What helped me was feeding it screenshots of apps I actually like, not asking it to 'make it look good'

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@kadirermantr @claudeai @ClaudeDevs 289 ideas down to 58 is the stat I care about. How did it decide what got cut?

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@steadyvane Trying this on a Mac mini this month. Anyone know which local model holds up for real tasks and not just hello world?

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@mrgadgetstudio Same thing outside code. The work isn't the slow bit, me saying yes is. I've started letting bots make the obvious calls and only bring me the real ones.

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@jackccrawford Brave. Mine are allowed to draft anything and send nothing. Has one ever sent something you wished it hadn't?

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@robertbach_ 'I approve every note that becomes permanent' is the bit people skip. Which of the three is best at not making stuff up from your notes?

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@kanavtwt Memory is the bit that breaks first for me. My bots forget a rule I gave them yesterday and confidently redo the thing I said not to. Keen to see if this fixes that

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@nvandewetering Depends what you hand them. Mine are useless at 'go be productive' and great at boring stuff with a clear finish line, like filing my bookmarks or prepping tomorrow. Terminal for building, bots for life admin

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@DrAi404 Hahahaha I still find it crazy we have DRM ink

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@brian_millot Ship the onboarding before the features. Nobody sees your best screen if signup loses them first. Let people play before you ask for an email!

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@alexhillman Inbox triage, calendar, a morning brief, house hunting, even my wardrobe!

Best one is my reading pile. My X, Substack and Reddit saves get filed into Notion with a line on why each matters. 88 X bookmarks in the last 4 days alone.

Do yours have limits on what they can do?

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Here's one outside code. I run 20-odd AI bots on my life admin.

Made this their rule today. Obvious stuff, they decide. Real judgement calls come to me.

My reading bot went first. Filed 6 of today's posts, skipped 2 as too thin, told me after.

[📙 Alex Hillman @alexhillman]

A few thoughts about the chief of staff pattern that I haven't seen before, but would love to learn more about:

- 90% of the time, all my agent needs between turns is a 👍 keep going buddy

- the next 9% is multi choice, often with an obvious best choice

- only the last 1% reauires ground up judgement from me

I've designed my Chief of Staff agent to primarily act as a judge BETWEEN each turn depending, deciding which of those 3 buckets is appropriate.

Bucket 1 keeps work moving.

Bucket 2 makes it easy for me to approve (and even automate some of those approvals).

Bucket 3 get escalated to me quickly.

My whole @jfdibot was fundamentally built around agent turns as a building block, which in hindsight turned me into the bottleneck to decide what happens between every turn.

This pattern feels like a magic trick in more ways than I can describe.

Also, as I've gotten better at working with agents (and thanks to lessons I learned working with @mattpocockuk), I've learned to front load the decision work and build in verification layers.

I just don't see this being done often outside of programming work, so I'm genuinely interested in more examples!

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@pratikg @Alibaba_Qwen What do you reckon an M6 with 32gb could run

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@zac70182 Great work, love it

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@nathanclark Sick, love it.

Have you sussed Nuvio? I'm a Stremio die hard but have loved Nuvio recently.

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@bot I just wanted to pass notes to my Grok Bot, so have setup a shortcut that records my notes, emails it to my bot to action later.

Is this just a note to Grok Bot or a conversation?

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@TheLevelZeroDev Building the thing got easy. Getting a second person to open it is the actual project.

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@sanketsaurav For me the scarce thing is my evenings now. Code stopped being the bottleneck once I started building around a 9 to 5.