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News 2026-04-16 AI Makes me feel like I’m a kid in a Candy store🍭

Howdy %Name%,

The last month has been a 💯% game changer for me!

While I’ve been using AI to assist me for nearly 4 years now I hadn’t completely embraced it in my workflow.

But now I can tell you this.

Claude code is insanely good❗

But don’t let the name scare you.

I’m using Claude Code via the VS Code Extension and I’m almost never looking at the CLI (Command Line Interface). And you can set up the extension in about 1 minute.

But don’t stop there. Learn how to create your own Claude commands and then create skills.

Both are game changers!

After that MCPs and Agents will blow your mind!

Now on with the show…

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Help Your Wife Get You Something YOU Want

This summer will mark our 19th anniversary.

That means it will be 19 years of my wife guessing what she should get me for birthdays, Christmas, Father’s Day, etc.

I thought this was a very fun opportunity for me to use AI and help her have a better idea of what I would love to get.

Check out how I fed AI what I’d like and then sent to my wife (Buttercup)

Why Every Husband Needs This AI Gift List Strategy 💪

Help Preserve your Digital Whiteboard

Are you burning through your tokens faster than you need to be?

This video helps walk through some of the best quick lessons in how to get far more out of your subscription than you currently are.

I’ll bet you you get at least 10X more prompt time if you follow half of these.

💸 Why Your AI Chatbot Hits Daily Limits So Fast (Hidden Costs Revealed)

Discussing How to Access Claude Code

I’ve been using the Claude model for quite a while now. Both Opus and Sonnett are insanely good at programming in AutoHotkey.

About 2 months ago I stopped accessing Claude from Chrome and switched to the Claude VS Code extension. This was a complete game changer! You can hear more about my decision in this video.

⚡ Why I DITCHED Claude Desktop for This VS Code Setup (Mind-Blown!) | AHK Hero Extract

If you are intimidated by VS Code don’t worry we got you covered! Check out our Intro to VS Code course that walks you through setting up and using VS Code with AutoHotkey. If you purchase by next Tuesday April 21st you can use VSCode50P during checkout you’ll get 50% off

Don’t forget all of our courses come with a Double your Money back guarnatee!

Steal other people’s GUIs in Seconds

Borrowing other people’s GUIs may feel wrong (at first) but, as long as your changing it (and give attribution) most programmers accept it as a compliment.

Using Canva’s new Magic Layers it makes it super easy to borrow any GUI and isolate the elements.

Check out how easy it is to do in this video.

This AI Tool Turns ANY Screenshot Into Editable Layers 📸 | AHK Hero Extract

Improving People’s Lives: Story #91

Last week I called a good friend of mine, Bob, on his birthday.

During the call I mentioned he was using AI to help his work at a casino where he oversees 604 employees.

I of course gave him some simple to use ideas how he can make his usage of AI 10X more productive (mainly by using projects but I did mention how easy it is to create custom tools)

To show him the power of Notebook LM I asked him for a topic he wanted to learn to which he chose Romans 9 from the bible.

I then recorded this video walkthrough how I used it to generate a custom video, infographic, Podcast, Slide deck, etc.

🤖 I Asked AI to Study Romans 9 – The Results Will SHOCK You!

📚 What we’re reading

5 surprising Registry hacks that will corrupt your files
Your DNS knows every website you visit and how Google 8.8.8.8 is different
Why three buttons beats Android’s gestures every time!
How to disable Win 11 features that are violating your privacy

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

Vibe Coding is leaving a lot of broken apps behind
Using Claude Computer Use
Save up to 49X tokens by building a Tree of your code

⚡️Productivity tips:

In Microsoft Excel

Control+Page+ Up/Down – Move between sheets
Alt+Page+ Up/Down – Move one screen left/right

🤣 A spot of Humor:

Admit it, you’d love one of these! 🤣🤣🤣

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #129

In this week’s video I walk you through how, in the Hero group,

we’ve shifted from teaching AutoHotkey coding to teaching how to use AI to code for us (usually but not always in AutoHotkey)
And the results are kind of insane❗

I show off 62+ Claude skills we’ve built, a Ultimate macro recorder that automatically picks the best automation method for you, transcription with Handy and a foot pedal, video processing tools, and a whole lot more.

If you’ve been curious about what happens when you stop fighting AI and start partnering with it, this one’s for you.

129 What we Automated with AI and AutoHotkey

Clients say…

You guys are awesome — Allen Horn

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 548 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 Hero Members with their Questions & Code
AHK Script Maker: Fixed tooltips
Setting default values in an ini file
WMI Explorer and Dmp function for peeking inside Objects
ProgressBar class
Updated UIA Inspector
Zoom Mic Notifier
Using Agents in Claude Code
NotebookLM-py AHK Wrapper
Claude Scheduler (maybe not needed because of Claude Routines?)
Creating your own Claude Code Commands
Using Try/Catch in your code

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

Automation is not about replacing humans. It’s about amplifying humans. — Satya Nadella
Right now is a good time to stop the bullshit. Get real. Take a painful review of yourself, and be honest. Face your faults, and begin the fix — John Carlton
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

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P.S. If you’re learning AI by yourself I can 💯% guarantee you’re missing out😥

There’s so much to learn it’s insane❗

In our Hero group we share what we’ve done lately and help each other with best practices.

Just like with AutoHotkey, with AI often it’s just seeing how other people are using it that gives us amazing ideas!

AHK & AI News 2026-04-08 We are living in the age of AI today!

Howdy %Name%,

I just realized something BIG about how we should be building with AI.

Think about how Claude Code got cloned in a couple of hours.

That shouldn’t be the exception

it should be the process!

Version A:

Move fast.

Throw everything in.

Don’t worry about structure, elegance, or doing it “right“

Just get it working.

Because now, more than ever, speed > perfection.

Then comes Version B:

Hand it to AI and say:

“Clean this up. Refactor it. Keep what matters. Improve the logic“

You’re no longer polishing your messy code

You’re rebuilding it intelligently.

This is the shift most people are missing.

We’re not in the era of “write it perfectly the first time”

We’re in the era of:

👉 Get the ugly first draft working

👉 Let AI turn it into something great

Perfect is still the enemy of done❗

If you’re still trying to architect everything upfront, you’re slowing yourself down.

Build messy..Then rebuild smart❗

Learn to Automate today!

Now on with the show…

Saving Your own Claude Commands

Did you know you can save your own / Claude commands❓ And there are some very handy advanced tips to make things easier for you! I created this post to walk through some of the cool features in creating your own Claude Code Commands.

If you’re still using AHK v1, you shouldn’t be❗

There are a lot of people out there still using AHK V1, but they really shouldn’t.

One reason is that it has not been updated in over two years. And Lexikos, true to his word, has not made a change to it since his End of Life post mentioned here.

Now that AI is so good at developing V2 code, everyone should be switching to V2.

I even used it to convert several of my scripts that were thousands of lines long and Claude Code did an amazing job!

If you want to get leveled up on V2 quickly, check out our V1 to V2 course.

Don’t forget all of our courses come with a double your money back guarantee, so we’ve got you covered.

Adding Inflection to your Cloned Voice

I’ve been using Eleven Labs to clone my voice for a while now. It is okay for words but often comes across “flat” for entire sentences. But now you can add emotions to words. In this video I showed our Hero members how I’d updated our class to let me pass them along.

🚨 ElevenLabs Update: AI Voices Now Have EMOTIONS & Accents | AHK Hero Extract

Reduce your Token usage by 94% for Documents

During last week’s Hero call we demonstrated our MarkItDown wrapper.

This tool is super-cool! It lets you convert many file formats (PDFs, Word docs, Excel files, etc.) to MarkDown. This is better for AI to “digest” and greatly reduces the tokens you’ll need going forward. Check it out in this video

🚀 This PDF to Markdown Tool Saves 94% of AI Tokens (Game Changer!) |AHK Hero Extract

Amazing Updates to our Window Snipping Tool

During a Hero call I showed some of the amazing functionality I added to our Window Snipping tool! Things like: Drawing Arrows, Adding Text, Highlighting, Capturing after a delay, etc.

Check it out in this video.

Creating a V2 version of our Window Snipping Tool

Improving People’s Lives: Story #90

Sunday my wife said she wanted some help merging a dozen Excel files together.

I asked her to email me the files and come to my computer.

I then opened each Excel file and clicked the Claude Code Excel extension.

I then told her to use the foot pedal and talk to Claude just like she’d talk to me (I use Handy to transcribe what is said and auto-send it to Claude when the foot pedal is released)

In less than 7 minutes she’d gotten everything done that she needed❗

I mentioned to her she should Claude Excel plugin approved at her company.

If you have not added the Claude Excel plugin, you can check it out in this video.

Quick Demo how to add Claude to Excel | AHK Hero Extract