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I use it a lot for personal stuff. Off the top of my head: Best way so far to build and use personalized/family tools for dining/recipe/movie/literature/reminder/organizer/security/notes—-in addition to robust text input, all of them have a voice and image UI via telegram without extra code via an intermediate LLM agent, and all data end up on your machine in your format of choice. More fun than codex/claude-code for hobby coding projects (though worse performance, more effort, unless you directly use codex acp). Less intrusive than ChatGPT/Claude for parallel queries while outdoors (speak, then read). Fun way to explore and understand multi-agent setups. A great way to demo the ability of current AI to friends and family.

You dont have to enable scary setups to make it minimally useful. The jump in capability compared to chatbots is dramatic, and the jump in flexibility compared to coding harnesses is also dramatic.

Thanks for sharing, can you give any specific examples of the kind of personalized tools that you find helpful?

All of the ones I mentioned work great for me. You can dream up your interface and inject technical design ideas and your claw can code it up; as you test it, you fix it if you get new ideas for how it should work.)

For example my recipe project is built around a relatively simple sqlite db. Input for new recipe is in arbitrary format as it goes to an agent (image snapshot on iphone; txt file, speaking it out in a telegram message; a text prompt); the model figures out what to extract and save from the projects’ documents and the context of the specific telegram thread. Output is in whatever form I ask for; rescaled for a number of people; fit in single compact paragraph; or detailed ingredients first then instructions; possibly replace missing ingredients. Query can be arbitrary complex—it almost always finds the recipe I want so far much to my surprise; once I had to followup to select a specific option from a couple ambiguous variants. By default, I like to keep the replies for my recipe queries brief, practical, projected to my cookware. Once I set up this very simple recipe project and imported a couple old datasets, I gave up all of multiple previous recipe schemes (text files or org notes with complex syncing schemes, iPhone apps…)

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