Making the unnecessary easier 0 ▲ John D. Cook 59 minutes ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments I watched a few videos this morning, looking for ideas of what I could use AI to do. In one video, someone had an agent monitor tech news sites every 30 minutes to notify him of a variety of developments. No doubt that’s less effort than visiting a bunch of sites every half hour. But not monitoring tech news in real time takes even less effort. Another video mentioned having Grok Bot order a sandwich through DoorDash. If I want a sandwich, I make a sandwich. One video showed how to manage dozens messaging services. Maybe you could just not use dozens of messaging services. And of course there are videos on creating agents to monitor the agents that monitoring your news, ordering your sandwiches, and managing your messages. All the use cases I saw were ways to using technology mitigate problems caused by technology, making it easier to do things that don’t need to be done, or at least that I don’t need to do. Of course different people have different needs. Some people have a… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.