His agent reads 36 hours of messages and sorts his commitments into 4 piles

Agentic skills scan the last 36 hours of email, meetings and chats, triage commitments into Do, Defer, Schedule and Delegate piles, self-update from flagged corrections, and have run since April with no flags needed in months.

How it works

Agentic skills scan the last 36 hours of email, meetings and chats
Triage commitments into Do, Defer, Schedule and Delegate piles
Self-update from the corrections he flags

Why it’s worth knowing

Most people do not know what they have agreed to this week. He does.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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