I've only been playing with it recently ... I have mine scraping for SF city meetings that I can attend and public comment to advocate for more housing etc (https://github.com/sgillen/sf-civic-digest).

It also have mine automatically grabs a spot at my gym when spots are released because I always forget.

I'm just playing with it, it's been fun! It's all on a VM in the cloud and I assume it could get pwned at any time but the blast radius would be small.

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gruez 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>It also have mine automatically grabs a spot at my gym when spots are released because I always forget.

seems far more efficient/reliable to get codex/claude code to write and set up a bot that does this.

	▲	Sargos an hour ago \| parent [-]
		>set up a bot that does this But he already did this. With a bonus of it will continue to work in the future if something breaks or changes. Human time is more precious than computing resources nowadays.

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mvdtnz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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gruez 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No? The comment was admittedly ambiguous but if you go to repo it's far clearer:

>I use it to give me a weekly digest of what happened in my neighborhood and if there are any public hearings or trash pickups I might want to attend.

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WhrRTheBaboons 2 hours ago | parent [-]

that does not seem like something you need an 'autonomous' agent for.

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Sohcahtoa82 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What would you propose as an alternative?

Anything not relying on an LLM likely means having to write bespoke scripts. That's not really worth the time, especially when you want summaries and not having to skim things yourself.

Going from doing it manually on a regular basis to an autonomous agent turns a frequent 5-15 minute task into a 30 second one.

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mvdtnz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Anything not relying on an LLM likely means having to write bespoke scripts.

The very first line in your readme is "CivicClaw is a set of scripts and prompts" though? And almost the entire repo is a bunch of python scripts under a /scripts folder.

I looked at one randomly chosen script (scripts/sf_rec_park.py) and it's 549 lines of Python to fetch and summarise data that is available on an RSS feed ( https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=... )

	▲	Gracana 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Parent isn't saying that bespoke scripts are bad, just that it's not worth their time to write them. The value of the bot is that it can do that for you.

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butlike 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They've created a public bulletin board for themselves, like a café's blackboard, or a city telephone pole.