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That's a fair assessment if you look at LinkedIn posts.

Personally though, I am finding it incredibly useful and I use it daily to assist with operations, strategy, sales.

On strategy do you ever worry that we trend towards the same patterns? This being relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDL3Ch7Nz8c&t=4m7s

I’d be curious to hear more about how you use it for those 3 categories. Care to share?

Operations: mostly tasks and reminders, I often think of something while on the road and send a voice message (like I would to a real PA). I use Kokoro-based TTS for local text-to-speech. Anything from "remind me to discuss X with so-and-so tomorrow" to "I have a multiple PoC projects w/ large entities starting next week - think about how I can best handle that" to "brainstorm how can I maximize upfront revenue with them", etc

Sales: using Google/gemini web search API and it's best run off-peak due to rate limits 503 Service Unavailable (everyone is overbooked when it comes to AI) to see what's happening in the space, any new developments involving companies I care about - and send me a daily digest with an overview and conversation topics.

#1 is just Siri/Google Assistant with extra steps (and expense).

#2 could be a scheduled task (cron job or something higher level) that calls a plain old AI provider API. IIRC most providers can even do those natively now.

#2 also provides an opinion on why a certain development is significant and how it relates so something else I am working on for that client.

The process is definitely more pleasant to me than setting up cron jobs and scripting things. I have a business to run.

Your comment reminds me of the FTP/Dropbox one.

That would be valid if setting up a scheduled AI task actually took any technical knowledge, but it doesn’t. ChatGPT lets you schedule tasks natively in the UI, and I assume others do as well.

(And OpenClaw is hardly nontechnical!)

I mentioned the same thing and it's getting downvoted lol

#2: Gemini also has scheduled actions. You can just ask it to give you daily digests about developments in some area, or you could even be in the middle of chatting about some current events, and tell it to notify you when there is new data, etc.

No recurring expense, just the hardware upfront cost. My next step is run the models locally as well. I used to work at FAANG (incl. compliance) and I would never use a cloud-based assistant of any kind.

> No recurring expense, just the hardware upfront cost. My next step is run the models locally as well.

So, at the moment, yes recurring expense?

Helpful info, thank you for sharing this.

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