Howdy %Name%,
So this weekend I was working with my wife to get all of our taxes in order to send to our accountant, and I had her come in here to my computer and work with me, letting her “drive” because I was tired of working on the computer.
She was in my Gmail navigating to each email from a given person (hunting for a specific one)
I mentioned to her instead of left-clicking them she should “middle-click” them.
And what did she ask me?
What’s a middle click?
This shocked me because she’s been a Windows computer user for 25+ years and uses them almost every day.
And that’s when it hit me…
We all have different levels of knowledge about different things.
It’s one of the fun things we realize in the Hero group, that we’re all at different levels learning different things.
It is one of the reasons why we create our How to be a power user course.
Now on with the show…
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100% Game Changer for Claude Code Users❗
If you’re a Claude Code user you need to stop what you’re doing and watch this video.This changes how you work with Claude completely.
Claude will give you insights on how you can improve your experience with Claude!
🚀 This Claude Command Will Make You a Better Programmer INSTANTLY
Don’t Vibe Code; Do this instead!
We talk to our hero members a lot about developing code with AI.
I think I’m getting a lot better results than many people are, and it took me a long time to realize why this video made a lot of sense to me because I was doing what it suggested already.
Agentic Engineering is what we encourage our Hero members to utilize.
🚨 “Vibe Coding” is over and Agentic Engineering is taking its place
Claude went Rogue on me❗
I was Using the Claude Code extension to fix some of the issues with my WordPress website.
And it made changes even though I specifically told it not to without consulting me first.
😰 My AI Assistant Went Rogue – Almost Got Me Locked Out |AHK Hero Extract
Picking the Right Encapsulator
AutoHotkey v2 lets you choose between double quotes or single quotes to encapsulate your text.
Sometimes it’s not obvious why you’d pick one over the other.
In this video I walk through when to use double vs single quotes in your AutoHotkey code.
Why My Developer Was WRONG About Quote Marks 😱 | AHK Hero Extract
Improving People’s Lives: Story #89
I’m going to cheat here and say: Informing my wife that there is a “3rd mouse button” which can save her time and frustration was a total game changer!
I’m also planning to set up weekly calls where we discuss how she can use AI to make life easier for her. If you’re wanting to learn how you can use AI and don’t want to do it in a group, feel free to book calls with me.
📚 What we’re reading
- Get Linux tools without leaving Windows
- One PowerShell command that shows what Windows is hiding
- You can finally change your gmail address
- 6 ways Windows STILL relies on DOS features
Don’t forget we have an Intro to DOS course.
And we have a double your money back guarantee❗
🤖 AI News that you Need to Know
- Easily Search your video (Thanks Ryan!)
- Claude Code Source Leak
- Try the 3-prompt rule with Chat GPT
- Handy is an amazing free local LLM Voice to Text LLM (Thanks Thomas!)
- Improve your GPU by 6X with this trick (thanks Thomas!)
⚡️Productivity tips:
Is there really one hotkey to kill virtually any program?
Alt+F4 will kill nearly any active program. Or better yet, Write your own (easier to reach) hotkey do it! I have mine so if I long-press the Escape key it will exit out of the active program.
Close active program by pressing a defined key | Long-press key
🤣 A spot of Humor: 😸🌳🔫⚰️
As they say “be careful what you ask for”
Cop Shoots Cat Off Of Tree
What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey & AI 🤖#128
This week was packed❗
From AI-powered headline scoring that rewrites your copy until it’s killer, to a foot pedal transcription setup, to some seriously upgraded UI inspection tools that actually generate the automation code for you.
In this week’s video I walk you through all of it, including how I’m using Claude AI to build tools that figure out the best way to automate something and then write the syntax for you.
If you’re into making AutoHotkey do the heavy lifting, you’re gonna want to check this one out❗
Clients say…
Joe! All I can say is WOW! — 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 542 hours of recordings teaching Automation that is exclusive to Hero members❗
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Help Hero Members with their Questions & Code
- Various Macro Recorders
- Updates to AutomateMyTask
- Demonstrating & Explaining using MarkItDown
- New (and improved❓) UIA Library
- Playing with Handy
- Using Inspect in Claude Code
- Using Try/Catch in your code
- 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 Automation issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey and AI.)
🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes
- Don’t try to change anyone. Learn the difference between actual help and co-dependent enabling — John Carlton
- Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way — Abraham Lincoln
- It’s better to get started in the wrong direction than not get started; We can fix the direction, we can’t fix not getting started — Norm Schwarzkopf
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P.S. I realized one of my “super powers” is that I don’t get embarrassed! I realized a long time ago we all know more about something and less about others. Admitting I don’t know something helps me far more than hurts me.
I deal with people of all Automation skill levels!
So, if you want to learn more about AI or Automating with AutoHotkey schedule a call so you can actually start doing more with it!
