My to-do list and morning brief print themselves every morning
The AI built him a set of local jobs on a Mac mini, and no model runs inside them. New Todoist tasks print as small tickets within half a minute, and at 7:30 each morning a brief prints and arrives by email with the day's calendar, overdue tasks, weather for two towns, and two clients' numbers from the day before, each set against its seven day average.
How it works
- The AI writes the slip renderer, the printer code and the comparison logic over a few evenings
- Local jobs on a Mac mini poll Todoist every 30 seconds and print new tasks as tickets
- At 7:30 the brief prints and is emailed with calendar, tasks, weather and client numbers
- When the printer went offline overnight the email was lost too, so he split print and email and the print now retries every 30 seconds for half an hour
Why it’s worth knowing
The model is not in the running system at all. The AI built plain local jobs that print his tasks and his morning brief on a receipt printer, and the weak point turned out to be the printer, not the software.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗