You’re welcome :) This video discusses / shows some automation ideas, using a prebuilt kit you can grab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrreIi8LCiw
I have no affiliation with them (other than i thought of the exact same idea he did, about 12 months after him, lol). You can see it in action from about 3 mins in.
It’s not the most impressive stuff possible, but the side by side screen give you and idea of what’s under the hood.
You already know the answer. It’s because they didn’t land.
Orbiting the moon - super cool. Seeing new stuff from far side - super cool. Emotional investment in something we’ve more or less done before? Well…
Which is actually a damn shame, but brains are funny like that. The entirety of human progress (and hubris) is down to chasing the next dopamine hit - and that probably includes the original moon shot.
Artemis is asking you to feel the same thing twice. Your lizard brain isn’t stupid - it’s just honest and lazy. If novelty is the drug, then this isn’t a new drug. It’s a carefully rebranded rerun with better CGI and a press kit. Plus, you’ve probably had a lot of other proxy hits to the ol’ reward center so that something as big as “humans in a tin can fly around the moon” just registers as “meh - I’ve seen better on For All Mankind”.
And I hate that for us.
^ exactly that.
Also, I suspect that’s the reason for Claude famously telling everyone to “go to bed” all the time. That bastich cannot run time and date as a background check reliably…it wings it based on start of conversation. Bitch I type a lot and fast…stop tellling me to go to bed at 9pm.
I expect it will get patched soon.
An endearing quirk…but it exposes the wiring if you know. Still, doesn’t make the trick any less impressive when it hits.
Good question. Short answer: not quite.
The LLM is the reasoning layer. It reads your input, figures out intent, and outputs structured instructions. They have a method that achieves that (MCP).
Something else like Home Assistant, n8n, a Python script, whatever you’ve set up actually executes the actions. The LLM interacts with those things.
So for the calendar example: your email client triggers on a booking reply, passes the text to the LLM, the LLM extracts the date/time/location and outputs something structured, and then your automation tool creates the calendar event and sets the reminder. Once it’s set up, it looks and feels like one thing, because you interact with it via the LLM (or even better - you vocally tell the LLM. Yes, JARVIS).
So the LLM never “talks to” Google Calendar directly, it just does the bit that’s hard to do with traditional code, which is reading messy natural language and making sense of it.
Same for Home Assistant. The LLM parses “turn the lights down a bit, it’s movie time, play something sci-fi” into a device + action + value, and HA does the actual switching.
The secret sauce that makes this work is MCP (Model Context Protocol) - basically a standardised way for LLMs to talk to tools and services.
Instead of custom glue code for every integration, you wire up an MCP server once and the model knows how to use it.
Growing library of them now: filesystems, calendars, browsers, databases, smart home etc.
Anthropic open-sourced the spec, most major local LLM frontends support it.
Think of it like hiring a translator who can manage your crew, rather than hiring someone who speaks every language and also has keys to every building and is also a plumber/electrician/contractor/interior designer, if that makes sense.
TL;DR: once you set up the stack, then the cool automation stuff can happen. Not a big ask, just a bit fiddly, like learning to program your VCR.
Super surprised Google’s AI doesn’t have the stack / harness inbuilt tho. They could afford to do a lot of the heavy lifting invisibly. I bet they actually do and it’s just … shit. Or a paid extra lol.
Some examples
That’s probably just the basics. People have some clever uses for these things. It’s not just summarize this document
What sort of coding and what sort of automation tasks? The latter is an easier ticket to fill than the former, though I might have an idea for you on that end if coding is a must
Honestly, what I do is write stuff up as .md files (text documents, basically) and then publish it via codeberg, which gets auto mirrored to github.io.
https://bobbyllm.codeberg.page/llama-conductor/
https://bobbyllm.github.io/llama-conductor/
It’s pretty low tech but it works. I can sketch out the thumbnail of how to do that if it would help (index files, xml files etc). Really, all you need it notepad++ and a codeberg account (free). Hell, if you feel uncertain, you could even get ChatGPT or Claude to help you out with this? It’s more or less a once off.
If you use windows, I can share my powershell command (.ps1) that will take what you write (in .md format) from your document folder, push it to your codeberg page. You literally just drop in a new document and hit publish it.
Ok, it’s a bit more complex than that to set up, but once it is, it really is just that :)
We’ve become so…jaded. I remember flying home from Japan, watching movies on my Ipad and dicking around on the net via inflight wifi. Literally flying over the ocean, in a chair, in the sky, with a supercomputer the size of a book, using invisible waves to communicate instantaneously across the globe.
Yawn.
Our calibration for extraordinary is out of whack. That’s the issue, I think.