Howdy,

We hear a lot (especially from programmers) about “AI slop“.

But what we don’t hear people talking about is how the amount of “Human slop” greatly outweighs the amount of AI slop.

Just because a human did something people often think it is “better” but sadly there are a LOT of people that don’t know what they’re doing❗

 

It won’t be long now before AI is better than most humans at many things.

 

But don’t fret.   Since the dawn of time, Man has been using tools to be more efficient.

It’s just now that the tools are so efficient we are having to compete with them!

Now on with the show…

Need a Magnifying Glass? We got you covered…

Like everyone else, as I get older I struggle with small text on the screen.

That’s why I created MagGlass which lets you quickly look closer at your screen (without changing your DPI).

Not only can you quickly zoom in you can change the size of both the inspection area as well as the render area.

Check it out in this short video.

Cant Read Your Screen Anymore 👀 Try This

Using Chrome’s hidden Local LLM

A while ago I made a video explaining how Chrome (secretly) installs a 4 gigabyte local LLM and walked through how you can remove it.

But then we got to thinking, what if instead of deleting it, we use it❓

While I was limited to accessing it through Chrome, I was able to create an html page to utilize it as a local LLM.   You can check it out in this video.

It’s not crazy powerful but it is local thus does not (seem) to be connected back to the cloud.

Accessing Chromes Hidden Local LLM via HTML

Easily Adding Watermarks to your Videos

I like the idea of adding watermarks to videos to: reinforce branding, reduce theft, and tag my videos so others know where they came from.

It used to be a painful process.  I say used to because now with Watermarker, it is super simple!

You can see just how easy it is in this video.

Easy Way to Add Transparent Watermarks 💧

Improving People’s Lives: Story #105

I had a call with a friend from grad school yesterday.   At the end of the call he asked me for examples of how people are using AI.

After the call I had a quick thought.   Why not have Claude loop over our folders, build a list of our AI scripts, organize them into groups, write a brief explanation and Hyperlink to the ones we sell and posted it to the-Automator here.

As part of the process, I also recorded this video explaining how I used AI to do the above.

How AI Built a Page Listing All My AI Tools

I then made a few quick edits to the video, uploaded it to YouTube and then had AI Transcribe it, generate 3 thumbnails, the summary, 10 possible title and tags for it.

The entire process (from when I told AI to loop over my files to finish the upload of the video) took less than 15 minutes.

I think this would have taken me at least 2 days of work!

📚 What we’re reading

• How your Echo Dot can extend your Wi-Fi for free
• 4 Essential Android Auto Apps
• Use FollowUpthen to remember to “get things done” later

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

• Why AI Tokens are so expensive
• Great example of using AI to generate Sales leads
• Get AI to organize your to-do list

⚡️Productivity tips:

I love when I find others posting about their use of AutoHotkey

🤣 A spot of Humor:  I’m a big fan of Craig Ferguson

Lauren Cohan – gorgeous and funny – Ferguson interview – March 2014

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #138

This week I dug into using AI to actually debug and build my AutoHotkey scripts, including a live look at fixing an Add to Startup script through a plain AI conversation.

I show off my Voice To Do web app, a local Transcriber that saves money over cloud services, my AHK file explorer (not released yet but making progress), media shrinkers, QR tools, and my strategy of pairing flagship models like Opus for planning with small local models for execution.

In this video I walk you through all of it, plus the reasoning tricks we’ve been kicking around in the Hero Club.

Clients say…

Holy shit❗ This is amazing — Dr. Kamran J. (Radiologist)

AHK Hero 🦸

Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 587 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to Hero members❗

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

• Help Hero Members with their Questions & Code
• AHK Tools
  • • AHK File Explorer (Feedback and Questions about Features)
    • Taskbar
    • Help Extractor & Inspector
    • Noise removal via Replicate
    • Borrowing Firefox Cookies
    • Watermarker: add a watermark to your video
    • Noticeable Text: Vertical columns
    • URL Memory: Auto show feature
    • Ffmpeg: ImageSize Reducer
    • Start Menu (Prompt Assistant update)
    • AutoRuns / Auto Start Manager
    • WatchFolders
• Progressive Web Apps
  • PhoneDeck: Controlling your computer from your phone (the easy way)
  • LAN Display: Display page on local network
  • VoiceToDo: Use voice to text and AI to build your to-do list
• LLMs 
  • LLM Unlimited OCR plus Python Text extraction
  • LLM Remove Background from Picture
  • Grok 4.5: Fast, Smart and uses less tokens

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

• It’s like deja-vu, all over again — Yogi Berra
• Live below your means. And avoid all debt — if you can’t pay cash-in-full, don’t buy it. Let your thrill be in your accomplishments, not the toys you can suddenly afford on credit — John Carlton
• Listen more than you talk. And when you talk, observe the rules of conversation. If these rules are a mystery to you, go hunt them down — John Carlton

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