Posted by stevekrouse 5 days ago
Personally, this appears to be extremely helpful for me, because instead of checking several different spots every day, I can get a coherent summary in one spot, tailored to me and my family. I'm literally checking the same things every day, down to USPS Informed Delivery. This seems to simplify what's already complicated, at least for my use cases.
Is this niche? I don't know and I don't care. It looks useful to me. And the author, obviously, because they wrote it. That's enough.
I can't count the number of useful scripts and apps I've written that nobody else has used, yet I rely on them daily or nearly every day.
Do you sit down as a family every morning and go through your calendars and sync up?
Or would it be better to have an automated summary posted to the family Telegram channel with "Bob has a dentist today at 1300, which overlaps with Mia's football practice, so Sara has to pick her up. Also it's going to rain so prepare accordingly."
Which is a nice time with the family we are sitting drinking coffee also with other family members.
When you Lack so much organization skills the AI would never get the data to write you this.
The more i think about it however, command line applications are about as interactive as a program can be.
Let's say one is interested to find out which one of the following 7 next days is gonna rain and send it to a telegram bot. `weather_forecast --days 7 | grep rain` | send_telegram.
The whole thing of off-loading everything to nondeterministic computation instead of the good ol determinism does seem strange to me. I am a huge fan though, of using non-deterministic computation for creating deterministic computation, i.e. programming.
/As a side note, i have played chess against Ishiguro many times on lichess.
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/15/1079624/deepmind...
(Or you don't trust them not to have security breaches that grant attackers access to logged data, which remains a genuine thread, albeit one that's true of any other cloud service.)
Any M-series Mac Mini can run a pretty good local model with usable speed. The high-end models easily compete with dedicated GPUs.
The background tasks can call mcp servers, to connect to more data sources and services. At least you don’t have to write all the connectivities to them.
It's about 652 tokens according to https://tools.simonwillison.net/claude-token-counter - maybe double that once you add all of the context from the database table.
1200 input tokens and 200 output tokens for Claude 3.7 Sonnet costs 0.66 cents - that's around 2/3rd of a cent.
LLM APIs are so cheap these days.