Howdy,
On my flight to my father’s place in Las Vegas I was checking my email and happened to read one from Sabrina Ramonov. She mentioned, on Jun 7th, she was having a meet-up with people in the Las Vegas area and gave an invitation to people to attend.
Of course I took her up on it (as did 22 others).
We had a wonderful lunch discussing how we use AI and bouncing ideas off each other.
As usual I highly encouraged people to get an AI buddy.
Someone that is at their general skill level. That they can learn and grow with and bounce ideas off of.
I can’t tell you how much I’ve improved my ideas by talking with someone else.
It’s one of the things we do all the time in the Hero Group.
I also enjoy talking to them about how we do things differently than most AI people. Letting AI do the thinking, but AutoHotkey do the work. With the average price of tokens going up, it’s a very smart thing to do❗
Join the hero club and see what you’re missing out on❗ It’s only $1.99 for the first month. You get access to 3 hours of meeting time each week (that you can choose to attend).
Besides 25% off our Courses, Scripts, and Consultations.
Now on with the show…
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Speaking of Meetings…
Do you have hour-long+ meetings that you want to share but feel guilty about forcing someone that only needs to see a few minutes of it?
Our Segmenter tool is a great way to break up Video and Audio files. Take a look at this video to see how easy it is to use.
🎯 The AI Trick That Turns 2-Hour Meetings Into 13 Digestible Clips | Hero Extract
Easily running scripts Without installing AutoHotkey
A few weeks back I released this video explaining how, if your IT blocks you installing AutoHotkey, you might be able to get it via the Windows store. (and if you can’t do it from the store, you might go to the URL here and be able to install).
Fun ideas and workarounds | Hero Extract
But for those of you that could not install but can get AutoHotkey.exe to your computer, you can still associate the .ahk files to the extension. I spell it out in this page.
Is this Double / Triple Charging❓
During a Hero call we were discussing how we will often have multiple instances of Claude solving our problems. Every few minutes we’ll switch between them to answer questions, create a restore point, nudge it along, etc.
This is all straightforward when we’re working for one client but, when we’re working for multiple clients, how do we bill❓ We discussed this overall issue in this call.
Can we legitimately double bill clients for our time when using AI❓
Improving People’s Lives: Story #101
During Sabrina’s lunch I asked a question to the people seated around me:
“Is there anything you haven’t been able to get AI to do❓”
Anthony, the gentleman sitting across from me, replied with a pretty tough goal.
He was trying to use AI to generate a video of a drone flying through a model of his design (He’s an architect). He had some success but the perspective would often change unexpectedly.
I mentioned a few things (which he had tried already) and then I agreed, that is tough❗
Then, about 15 minutes later, I mentioned an idea to him that he hadn’t tried (apparently my subconscious was working on it.)
I haven’t heard back if the other approach worked, but the main point is that by talking to others (and letting your subconscious noodle on it) often you can get new perspectives.
📚 What we’re reading
- Why your Bluetooth keeps disconnecting
- 25 Everyday Miracles to Inspire Awe
- Hidden router feature to help you when your ISP goes down
🤖 AI News that you Need to Know
- How RTX Spark and Windows will bring Agents to your PC
- Plaud’s AI notetakers make the most out of workday conversations
- Why I can’t stop using Artifacts
- Tokens are insanely expensive, can AI really make a profit?
⚡️Productivity tips: In Windows Explorer:
- Alt+D – Select address bar
- Alt+P – Show preview pane
🤣 A spot of Humor:
Am I just writing bad prompts? 😭
What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #135
This week was packed. I demo a blazing-fast file search tool (an AI-compiled C engine wrapped in AHK), a QR-code lead capture system I built entirely free on Cloudflare, and a live call assistant that uses embedding models to surface relevant links in real time while I’m talking.
I also rapid-fire through a pile of smaller utilities including AI and non-AI icon creators, a reminder tool, an image converter, and a mouse highlighter.
In this week’s video I walk you through all of it and show you what each one does.
What we Automated with AI and AHK #135
Clients say…
Without the introductory course on udemy.com I wouldn’t have had any idea of how to setup a hotkey to quickly change my Audio output device from speakers to headset–something I do at least a half-dozen times per day. In the forums I found most of what I needed and the course pointed me in right direction for the edits needed to effect this change on my computer. Thank you! — Robert Rosewald
AHK Hero 🦸
Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 575 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
- Does Anthropic’s Mythos / Fable 5 Live up to the Hype❓
- Use AI to remove AI from your program
- Using AI to create a Website (Plusses & Minuses)
- My new Live Streaming Assistant 👀
- Creating an API to easily pull data (instead of mySQL)
- Embedding data
- Pushing to Screen, Telegram, Chat, etc.
- Working on 2 ideas at once (that are part of the same project)
- Obfuscating our scripts. Inject seeds, add irrelevant code, add AI Instructions
- Parsing the URL to help manipulate web scraping
- Live Creating Skills and Testing
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
- Often the only thing preventing you from learning is your ego — James Clear
- You’re going to be an idiot occasionally. Embrace this opportunity for a good story, learn from it, forgive yourself, and try not to make idiocy a common event in your day — John Carlton
- The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful — James Clear
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P.S. The AI meeting in Vegas was great and, since I spend ~1/3 of my time there, I’m planning on attending more meetups. But are any of you near Dallas❓
Want to meet up to discuss how you’re using AI and/or AutoHotkey❓
