Howdy,
Last week I read a great post about Microsoft’s Foundry Local.
Over the weekend I built a test and it did exactly as I’d hoped.
I made a tool that checks whether a specific model is already downloaded.
If not, it downloads and configures it, then sets it up to work with my script.
I then asked Irfan to run the tool and the script worked seamlessly.
This is HUGE!
We can have our scripts get help from AI and keep everything local and out of the cloud!
There were 28 models that will run on a CPU so we can build things that work on “most” computers.
You can read more about it here.
This allows us to now let local AI help our scripts❗
And there is virtually nothing for the user to configure/setup❗
Even when they don’t have a GPU! (but there are 36 GPU builds)
Now on with the show…
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Microsoft AI Foundry overview
To follow up on the newsletter story I asked Gemini Notebook to create this video explaining how Microsoft Foundry Local will help us.
Run AI Models Locally with Microsoft Foundry Local
Getting AI to leverage your Scripts to develop code
During a hero call a while back we discussed improving AI and getting it to use our scripts when writing our code.
You can check it out in this video.
Tips for Using Scripts with Claude Code | Hero Extract
Developing code with Multi Agent Systems
Following on the above thread, we were discussing Isaias’ very advanced approach for using multiple Agents for developing our tools.
In this video we walk through how we corral AI and guide it to ensure we end up with solid code.
Multi Agent Systems for Superior Coding 💻 | Hero Extract
Improving People’s Lives: Story #118
My friend Joey has a “storage” dilemma. He used to take thousands of photos for his kid’s sports teams.
He has around 5 TB of data in Google cloud but is out of space and doesn’t want to pay for it (plus most pictures are a few years old).
So I wrote a Rust program to loop over pictures, choose a “max size” and conversion level.
We did a test and the pictures still look good and get reduced to around 1/20th the size!
We’re first doing a pass having AI identify “group shots” and not reducing those.
📚 What we’re reading
- F4 is the Excel Hotkey you Need to know
- Excel Table Feature is buried in plain sight
- 10 Quick ways to speed up a slow Windows PC
🤖 AI News that you Need to Know
- Reverse Engineer Anything: Recreate ANY Program!
- Microsoft-Decision-1: a model that picks answers instead of writing them
- Meta launches Muse Wonder, its first frontier model
- Ollama 0.40.x updates fix some Windows bugs, etc.
- Get more out of Grok (Thanks Ryan)
⚡️Productivity tips:
Grok Bot, Grok Bot, Grok Bot. I’m telling you, yes, it’s that good❗
Give it a try. I guarantee it will blow you away.
Ryan Wells and I are both treating it like an employee and it is not letting us down❗
🤣 A spot of Humor: I love Joe Wilkinson’s sense of humor!
“I’m Just Here To Sex It Up A Little” | Joe Wilkinson Best Bits
What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #152
This week I’ve got an AI video editor that cleans up filler words, labels speakers and adds music or b-roll from a simple prompt, plus a ClearCut update that trims out silences and false starts for pennies.
I also built a Rust email app that searches your inbox by concept, a Signposts tool for jumping straight to recent folders, and a bunch of system tweaks for RAM, bloatware and blocking sites.
In this week’s video I walk you through all of them and show how much faster my workflow has gotten.
Clients say…
I appreciate all the work you guys are doing for me! I look forward to it and it keeps me excited about my work – otherwise I would likely get bored or burned out or both. — Danny H. (Radiologist)
AHK Hero 🦸
Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 617 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to Hero members❗
You can watch 1 hour a day for a year and not repeat content! That’s a lot of Learning!
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Help Hero Members with their Questions & Code
- Creating 60 websites❓ Email for them, Licensing software, etc.
- Using Claude to publish downloads/scripts on the-Automator
- AHK Tools
- AI editor
- GrokBotNoClose
- Identifying processes that Need Automation
- RTF and MD to HTML
- Reverse Engineer Anything
- TapeCalc 2
- ViewSav 2
- Outlook / Email Reader
- ReadSend – check email from Cloudflare & Zoho
- Social Media Blocker
- Rust
- Doubled Icons in Icon Animator
- Export animated Icons to guis
- Image Resizer
- Doubled Icons in Icon Animator
They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 3 hours a week where we help people with their automation issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to Automation with AI)
🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes
- Success is a lagging indicator of previous hard work — Jimmy Carr
- When experiencing problems with tools, typically you should blame the operator, not the tool — Joe Glines
- If you come to a fork in the road, take it — Yogi Berra
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P.S. While I still like using frontier models, having a local AI handy to do “simple” things is very helpful. And the fact they run on virtually any PC is amazing!
