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Your AI Can Search the-Automator For You

Here’s something that used to drive me nuts.

Someone would email me “Joe, do you have anything that grabs data off a web page?” and I’d have to go dig through my own store to find it.

My own store! 😊 After 438 tools, scripts, and courses, even I can’t remember everything that’s in there.

So I fixed it. And then I went one step further: I made it so your AI can search my catalog too.

Grab a free key, paste one line into Claude or Cursor, and from then on you just ask. No more guessing what I named something. Describe the problem you’re stuck on and your AI finds the right tool:

• “I need to pull data off a website” finds my web scraping tools
• “how do I learn v2 coming from v1?” finds the transition course
• “something to organize my files faster” finds the file tools

It searches by meaning, not keywords. That’s the part that makes it actually useful.

If you like the idea of your AI reaching into your tools, you’ll want my AutoHotkey v2 MCP Server too.
It gives your AI real eyes and a debugger.

And once you’re set up, build your own Claude Code commands so the stuff you do all day is one keystroke away.

New to all of this? This video walks you through Skills & MCP in minutes.

The cool thing is your AI already knows what you’re working on. It shouldn’t have to send you off to browse a store. It should just answer. ⚡

Grab Your Free Key

Takes about 30 seconds. Free, no credit card, nothing to install. Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Cursor.

One thing I’ve learned building automations for 20+ years: the tool you can’t find is the same as the tool you don’t own. Hopefully this helps a bit. 🤖

Now on with the show…

Now, with Embeddings, we have a new level of search!

Using Embeddings to Match on Meaning

The intro mentions that the AI is matching on “meaning” using Embeddings.

If you’re new to embeddings you should check out this short video that gives you a quick example.

It’s quite literally the future here now!

Want another angle on it? Forget RegEx AI Semantic Search Changes Everything covers the same idea from a different direction.

🔥 This Search Algorithm Understands What You ACTUALLY Mean❗

Do you miss Windows XP File Search❓

The built-in Windows File search is crazy powerful but it is also crazy complex❗

That’s why I built Windows XP File Search.

It’s super simple to use and is super fast (it’s a C++ exe wrapped with an AHK GUI.)

Check out how easy it is to use by watching this video.

This $8 File Search Tool DESTROYS the $100 Competition 💀XP File Search

And, if that interests you, check out the recently released AHK File Explorer.  While you’re at it, this Explorer trick is worth two minutes of your time.

Learning when Enough is Enough

In today’s age, where AI can add virtually any functionality you want, Scope Creep is becoming a severe problem.  In this Hero Extract we discuss how to learn to stop adding all the extra bells and whistles.

Identifying the MVP (Minimal Viable Product) is nearly a super-power these days!

Stop Overbuilding! The MVP Mindset Most Developers Ignore 🎯 | Hero Extract

Improving People’s Lives: Story #109

Yesterday I had a call with Songlin (a friend who’s retired and his son is about to enter High School.)

His son is quite good at math and Songlin is planning out his son’s journey to college.

He was mentioning math tutors run between $100 to $200 an hour and the college advisory companies are charging around $300 an hour to help make sure his son gets into a top college.

We discussed how by talking with AI, he could probably replace both for a tiny fraction of the cost❗

And, if he want’s to feel confident of his plan, he could find a retired expert to review his plan

📚 What we’re reading

• Why Windows can’t use the best Bluetooth codecs
• Every Android user should check out this open-source app collection
• These settings fix 90% of Android Auto’s problems
• Linux power users have had this for years Windows just caught up

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

• Qwen-Max competes with Fable5❓

Agentic Engineering vs Software Engineering: Beyond Vibe Coding

What Are Large Database Models? AI for SQL Data

⚡️Productivity tips:

Ctrl+Shift+P – Command Palette (access Claude Code commands)

🤣 A spot of Humor:

No Celebrity Has ZERO Filter Like Clint Eastwood…. and It’s HILARIOUS!

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #142

I ditched FFmpeg entirely and rebuilt my screen capture tool in Rust with Claude’s help, and the result is a 1.5 MB binary that gives me sharper output than what I had before.

I also updated my XP-style search tool with OR filters and excludes, and I’m building a custom ASR model for a client that should drop their transcription bill from about $200 a month to around $5.

In this week’s video I walk you through all of it and why Rust plus AI has become my go-to combo for building tools fast.

What we Automated this week #142

Clients say…

My mind is blown — Joey Pauga

AHK Hero 🦸

Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.  Currently we have over 599 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
• A2A (Agent to Agent) instead of SEO
• AHK Tools
  • Borrowing Firefox Cookies
  • AHK tAHKbar
  • Watermarker: add a watermark to your video
  • WatchFolders example
  • Start Menu
• Rust Tools (and why we should care)
  • OneTake
  • AudioRipper
  • Virtual Camera
  • SoundCleaner
  • MediaProbe

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

• Don’t wait. The time will never be just right — Napoleon Hill
• Instead of trying to get more done, I’m working hard on having less to do — Joe Glines
• Your strength is measured by what you’ve overcome, not what you’ve avoided — Joe Glines

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P.S. If you’re wanting to get some help figuring out how you can use AI at work, feel free to reach out.

AI isn’t the “end all / be all” but it definitely has its place and can save you a ton of time and money❗