Yeah, with family, and with animals. The cat is easy. The rabbit and the bird have been hilariously complicated. It spent a week going in circles between government agencies before asking me if it could recruit a veterinary import specialist in the destination country - it found quotes, recommended one of them to me, I ok’d it and paid, and we were off to the races. I have it in writing from a ministry official saying that this is the first time in 20 years of doing this job he hasn’t had to request further information or had problems with the form. Which is frankly incredible, and an indictment of their absolutely impenetrable processes - which Astra was able to cut through.

Oh and add to that that me, my wife, and my daughter are all different nationalities. And we had to buy a property as part of the process - said buying engine found it, and an agent then saw it through to completion, telling me step by step the bits I needed to do (shovelling money across the Atlantic, mostly), again, successfully.

It has put together an evidentiary portfolio of dozens of documents, all nearly bundled up with a bow on top, and has made bureaucrats happy everywhere it has dealt with them. I had it apply for a local social club for us last night, as like everything in Brazil it requires an amazingly detailed and invasive form wanting stuff like apostilled birth certificates.

So yeah - absolutely enormous help. The lawyer scrap all stemmed from the emigration in the first place, as I’d initially gone “let’s use humans” before we spent a month making zero progress, and variously being ignored or given dangerously incorrect advice. Fired them, with cause, and had the robot take it from there.

I honestly think I’d be unambiguously stuck on the whole endeavour without agentic AI.

It’s a hilarious vibecoded mess but she loves it. The Adventures of Rollo and Luma, Galactic Rescue Team

All stemmed from her (she’s 4) wanting a game where her stuffed toys go to space. So I started out with creating a canon bible, reference art, style guides, rules for development, the target audience and intent, all that, and then jumped into episodic content following broad seasonal arcs. We’re on season 2, episode 5 right now, and she gets a release every 1-3 weeks.

Oh and as a fun constraint it all has to run on a third gen iPad mini. The thing is like 12 years old or something. I plug in the iPad for it to playtest on it with QuickTime and safari dev tools.

For me it’s been a fun experiment in genre-hopping - point and click adventures in the vein of sierra, various shooters (all “throw the candy to the alien” or “blow up the lifeless asteroid” adaptations), and after a fair bit of content I decided to hop over to unity. Came up with a pipeline for authoring good 3d assets, from characters to scenery, applied that as a rule, and again, off to the races.

Oh and I’ve used elevenlabs for scoring, VA, foley, etc. - all sits comfortably within the $20 a month sub.

So. Fun for me. Fun for her. She just mentions this week that the stars at night are really cool, and I have my direction for the next episode.