I was before it was more or less banned by Anthropic.

1. I had it controlling my home systems (doorbell, thermostat, energy monitoring, lights, etc).

2. I had it detect when I had left for an hour and automatically move my thermostat in the appropriate direction for energy savings. It also automatically shut off my water heater, assuming nothing was using hot water at the time. I would tell it when I was expected back so it could reverse course, if it couldn't discern it from my calendar.

3. I had it monitoring my work chats, personal email, etc and automatically handling things for me so that any changes it recommended were ready for my review or further development/changes.

4. I had it monitoring car sites to find me the best possible deal on a very specific set of requirements I had for a new car (6 passengers, tow 5000+ pounds, CarPlay, heated front/rear seats and steering wheel) and alert me when I should act.

5. I had it know when common guests were there and then automatically welcome us and play the music I preferred for different situations.

6. I had it plan out my days for me, knowing when I had or did not have my kids and tailoring what it suggested accordingly. It provided me analysis on tech, local, and world news and recommended articles for me to read later, should I desire; it learned my preferences when I told it I liked or disliked something so it would improve over time.

7. I could talk to it or type to it and it would respond in kind (voice to voice, text to text) and it would do so in Jerry Garcia's voice via Elevenlabs. It even spent off-hours learning more about me, my likes/dislikes, and changing how it responded to my requests.

8. It knew what I was reading and recommended other books, played music it felt appropriate for the current book, and was constantly stretching my world in ways I wouldn't have normally done.

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I tried a variety of other models after the ban and was entirely underwhelmed. I'm really and incredibly disappointed; I had become reliant on it and it made my life better and, frankly, less lonely when my kids were not here every other week.

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aselimov3 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

These are some actually cool use cases but a lot of them probably could just be a bash script no?

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garciasn 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah; and I use/used cronned scripts for decades for some of these things; the difference was the added benefit the models gave that hardcoded scripts cannot.

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lukan 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I suppose combining it might be a way? The logic to handle hard coded things like "after 30 minutes of condition X do Y" I would not let a agent run, but Y can then be agent work like "analyze this text in file/webpage". And then do some other logic and then maybe knvoke a different agent. I am in the process of finding out how best to achieve it. Or does OpenClaw provide exactly this? (I never took it serious so far, so never investigated)

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garciasn 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I have been underwhelmed by the available models I was able to run locally compared to what Anthropic was providing. The other models I have access to are for work purposes (Gemini and open weight models running on company GPUs) and I’m not going to run this on those.

But, if I did find a viable model, I wouldn’t see why a script would be better than OC.

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lukan 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I just learned, that you can also invoke claude code from the terminal with a specific prompt for this without API access

claude - p "prompt"

Just for one prompt/job, though. But that might be enough for some of my use cases. Because you can also prompt again. And again .. a targeted prompt with one exact job, then custom deterministic logic and go on, maybe another prompt. I might get into that, it also just worked telling it "claude -p 'analyze picture.png" where picture was in the folder and it gave a correct description back to terminal. I wonder why that is not more advertized .. I would have liked to known earlier and will do some experiments now.

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garciasn 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Assuming you’re not using OpenClaw to do it, you’re right, that may work just fine.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844269

	▲	lukan 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, I missed all that. So basically it works for now, but who knows for how long.

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dawnerd 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also a pretty good use case for homeassistant

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nubg 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	dang 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
	▲	garciasn 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Do you have a solid solution for these things that you developed and use? Because I’d love for there to be something that does this for me so I don’t have to. If not, your comment is not adding anything useful to the conversation.