Howdy %Name%,

The other day Claude was offline for a couple of hours.

That’s when I realized just how dependent I’ve become on AI for coding.

I joked that “we’ve been sold a lie:  AI does take coffee breaks❗”

So much so I finally switched to the $100 a month Max plan (you get 5X the normal usage) but now I’m thinking I will switch to the $200 a month plan (you get 20X normal usage).

This last week I used Claude’s Sonnet & Opus to build incredible tools!

I realized that spending it on AI is money well spent because, like AutoHotkey, AI is a multiplier of productivity. 

My time is worth money and it makes sense for me to spend to have the smartest coding model at my disposal and stop wasting time with the other models.

How about you❓   Are you relying on it now more than ever❓

Join the AHK Hero club and see how other automation nerds are using AI to save time and money!

Now on with the show…

Progressive Web Apps are a Total Game Changer

A few weeks back Ryan Wells joined our Hero call and shared how he’s created an amazing “app” without spending a lot of time and money.  

He created a PWA (Progressive Web App) that makes it super easy to collect videos from clients.

You can learn more about the capabilities of PWAs here

📲 Starbucks DOUBLED Users With This App Secret (Not What You Think)

Add Icons & Labels to your “Fake” drives

It took some work but we updated our Virtual Drive Creator to now let you add icons and labels to your virtual drives. 
If you’re accessing files/folders frequently, save a ton of time by creating a virtual drive and then it is just a click away!  Check it out in this video.

⚡ Windows Drive Labeling Glitch Finally Explained by Developers! | AHK Hero Extract

Super Secure way to Track your Stock Portfolio

Are you as paranoid as I am about logging into your portfolio❓

I realized, as long as I know the tickers and # of stocks, I don’t actually need to login, I can just pull them with this simple tool.  You can check out how it works in this video.

🛡️ This Simple Tool Tracks Your Stocks WITHOUT Security Risk! | AHK Hero Extract

Speed up Windows Explorer

I was reading an article and realized this simple trick to speed up accessing folders that have lots of files.   Total game changer!  You can get Speed Up Explorer here.

🚀 This Windows 11 Explorer Hack Made My PC INSANELY Fast! | AHK Hero Extract

Converting Functions to Classes

If you’re not using AHK Functions, you should be!  (We go deep on Functions in Intro to AHK)

If you are using Functions but not Classes, you should be!   Classes are the next logical step for you.

In this video Irfan walks through converting Functions to Classes in AutoHotkey.

🔧 Converting Functions to Classes LIVE – AI vs Manual Coding Challenge! |AHK Hero Extract

Don’t forget, our AHK Courses come with a 200% money back guarantee ❗

Improving People’s Lives: Story #85

I’m out here in Las Vegas kicking it with my 85 year old father. 

He had a Doctor’s visit scheduled and we needed to fill in forms. 

I had him come to my computer where I automated much of the form completion.

How they would expect an 85 year old to do this stuff is beyond me!

📚 What we’re reading

• Lots of interesting tools at API Ninjas
• Select from 500 popular Powershell scripts to generate AHK code
• Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft Word’s Styles

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

• Android Reverse Engineering & API Extraction — Claude Code skill (Thanks Ryan Wells)
• How To Scrape Any Website With Claude Cowork
• Cut Claude Token Costs by 99% — jCodeMunch
• Access stored files via Claude Files API
• CLI Anything sounds insanely helpful. Check out this video

⚡️Productivity tips:  

In MS Excel you can create a chart by hitting F11

🤣 A spot of Humor:   This would be funny if it wasn’t so true

Developer VS Tester 

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #127

This week was a big one❗

I updated over 300 files and imroved a ton of tools.

In this video I walk you through updates to the Snipping Tool, a redesigned Automate My Task with a slick new wizard🧙♂️.

I also show the YouTube Downloader, and why ASM Script Maker Pro is packed with way more than you’d expect.

What we Automated with AutoHotkey #125

Clients say…

There’s no way I could have accomplished what we’ve done without your support! — Stephanie Holland

AHK Hero 🦸

Consider joining the 🦸AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 533 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

You can watch 1 hour a day for a year and not repeat content! That’s a lot of AHK Learning!

During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:

• Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
• AHK Script Maker: Check for update, v1 to v2 converter, Dash
• V2 Window Snipping tool and V2 AutomateMyTask
• AutoHotkey MCP
• Using Try/Catch in your code
• Use CLI Anything to automate anything
• Connecting Claude to NoteBookLM
• JCodeMunch
• Context7MCP server
• Setting default values in an ini file

They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)

🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes

• The amateur does not know what to do. The master knows what not to do — James Cleary
• Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way — Abraham Lincoln
• History is just new people making old mistakes — Sigmund Freud

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