Six minutes of my robot doing actual work


Hi Friend,

Robot Builders Club Season Two starts tonight, and it comes with the Robot Assistant Field Guide. Hooray!

Get $50 Off for the next week with code: ROBOT50

Also, I put a new video up today. Six minutes of my robot assistant doing actual work.

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So what do I mean by "actual work"? It reads the overnight email and hands me a short list of what needs a human, with the routine replies already drafted. It files the receipts and forwards the tax ones to my accountant. It reads the lease and the insurance renewal and tells me the three things I should be looking at. It watches prices, tracks warranties and return windows, and mentions when I haven't talked to a friend in three months. Each evening I take a photo of my daily note card and it checks off what I finished.

None of that took a line of code. The whole method is writing instructions in plain English.

That's the idea behind the Robot Assistant Field Guide. Not a chatbot you ask questions. An assistant that knows your projects, your files, and your week, and does the repetitive work you keep putting off. I call it the donkey work.

Starting tonight there's a live room to go with it. Robot Builders Club Season Two runs every Monday from tonight through February. Twenty-three sessions. Somebody brings the thing they're stuck on, we look at it together, and most weeks it's working before the hour is out. The sessions are weekly and every one is recorded and posted a few days later along with a transcript and other resources. It's a lot of fun, but you don't have to be there to get value from the course. Just have your robot read the transcripts.

AI is evolving so quickly. None of us knows what this looks like in February. Siri AI is coming, local models keep getting better, and the model you should be using this month keeps changing. A recorded course can't cover something that hasn't happened yet, so there's a room instead, every Monday, while it happens.

So what you're buying is ten foundation videos, ten recorded workshops, the Starter Kit, all 22 recorded sessions from Season One, and the 23 live ones ahead. More than forty hours of it already made, past seventy by the end of February. Most courses are a fixed thing you finish. This one is bigger at Christmas than it is the day you buy it.

It's $249, and the code ROBOT50
takes $50 off through September 15.

There’s a free video on that page if you're interested.

Your pal,
David

P.S. Scot took the course earlier this year. “This is the best course you’ve ever done. I knew Claude could do all of the things in the course, but I didn’t know how to set it up and put it together.”

If you buy it and it isn’t what you hoped, tell me within 14 days and I’ll refund you.


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