Howdy %Name%,

I’ve been collaborating with an old friend of mine named Joey.

I introduced him to AI about a year and a half ago and, over the past 6 months, he’s been diving deep into it.

During most of our calls, we touch on the never-ending new uses of AI.

A few weeks back he joined a call and I introduced him to Irfan.

Joey politely said “hello” but I could tell there was something in his tone that wasn’t quite right.

Since Joey and I are very close I straight out asked him what was up.

It turns out he thought Irfan was my “AI assistant”.

We all had a good laugh, but he had good reason to suspect it was an AI assistant.

I think in the next 6 months I’ll create one.

During our Hero calls we end up sharing more and more about how we’re using AI to work smarter, not harder.  If you’re wanting to dabble with AI, it’s a great place to get ideas and direction.

Now on with the show…

Updating your VS code preferences

If you’re a VS code user you should check out this video where Isaias walks through configuring it.

VS code is the “Ferrari” of editors.   It’s incredibly powerful but is also complicated.

VS code preferences for extensions with AHK v2

If you’re wanting to learn how to use it, you should check out our Intro to VS Code course.

Want a simple, yet powerful, editor❓

If you’re wanting a solid editor that is easy to use but has powerful features you should check out our AHK Script maker.  We’re almost out of beta but it is pretty stable and packed full of great features!

You can get an idea of what it can do in this video

AHK Script Maker Updates

Why YOU Should Automate

I fed NotebookLM a story I wrote a while back to help people realize the benefits of automating.

It created this amazing video for me.   If you/ someone you know don’t see the reasons why they should automate I highly recommend you check it out / share it with them.

🚀 Reclaim Your Time with AI! How Automation Transforms Productivity 💡

Help your Brother (printer) out

During an AHK Hero call Connie asked for some help automating the printer software.

Even if you don’t have a Brother printer, you should check this video out because we discuss various ways to automate programs with AutoHotkey

🛠️ AutoHotkey Masters Crack Brother Printer Code

Improving People’s Lives: Story #76

I showed a friend of mine that is losing his vision our AI OCR tool and how, by making a minor change to the prompt, it can be used to show AI anything from your screen.

I have this video on how that works.

Adapting OCR for flexiblility

📚 What we’re reading

• The hidden router setting that is Slowing down your internet
• The most overlooked way to Stop spam calls on Android and iPhone
• I hated browsing YouTube until I Changed This Setting
• Does Syntax highlighting actually make a difference

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

• Copilot Vision on Windows
• Gemini now has Personal Intelligence
• Raspberry Pi’s new add-on board has 8GB of RAM for running AI models
• MIT shatters Context length
• New $8 monthly option from Chat GPT

⚡️Productivity tips:  In Outlook

• Ctrl+Q – Mark as Read
• Ctrl+U – Mark as Unread

🤣 A spot of Humor:  Pickup Lines doomed to fail

The Pick Up Lines of Ryan Stiles

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #118

This week I got some serious AI help cleaning up my video extraction tool—turned a messy FFmpeg command into something way more elegant that actually notifies me when it’s done processing.

In this week’s video I walk you through the improvements to my AHK Script Maker (including a sweet jump-to-line feature), show off some utility tools like Clipster and my hotkey lookup system, and share my plans for integrating premium tools right into the editor.

If you’re into making your workflow smoother with AutoHotkey, you’ll want to check this one out!

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. — Todd H. (Radiologist)

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 512 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: Adding Tools and Fixed bugs
• Hide a Hard drive with DriveToggler
• No Day or Nights in Canada❓
• How I run Android apps on Windows
• 5 Git commandsthat feel like Magic
• Comparing strings, case sensitivity, how to handle when in map, etc.

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 first minute of action is worth more than a year of perfect planning — James Cleary
• What people think of you is irrelevant. But how you leave this world matters. Even if it’s all futile in the end, play your part as well as you can. Real courage is fear, in action. Play your hand — John Carlton
• Being born in poverty isn’t a sin; staying in poverty might be — Dan Kennedy

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Joe, Isaias, Irfan and staff

P.S. The intro was a true story and I fully believe I’ll have an AI assistant to help keep track of things (and work on projects for me).   Have you tried creating a personal AI assistant yet?  If so, what were your thoughts❓