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AI Automation

Workflows that ship. Pipelines, scrapers, agents glued to APIs, and the operational discipline that keeps them running past the demo.

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DAY 01Today MAY 13 · 20261 SUMMARIES
OpenAI NewsAI Automation

Codex Prompts Automate Finance Reporting and Models

Finance teams cut assembly time on MBR narratives, model cleanups, CFO packs, variance bridges, and forecasts by feeding Codex existing spreadsheets, dashboards, and notes via copy-paste prompts that cite sources and flag risks—no coding required.

OpenAI News
DAY 02Yesterday MAY 12 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Brian CaselAI Automation

Night Shift: Agents Run Recurring Jobs Automatically

Delegate repetitive tasks to AI agents using the Night Shift pattern—shared interface + scheduled skills + brief human reviews—so agents handle work overnight, surfacing only decisions needing your input.

Brian Casel
DAY 03Monday MAY 11 · 20263 SUMMARIES
AI EngineerAI Automation

Embed Pi Coding Agents via CLI Tools in Products

Pi's minimal TypeScript SDK powers LLM agents that loop tools; expose CRM/ERP data as secure CLIs for natural agent use, as in a B2B sales pipeline routing RFP emails to per-customer sessions that output inbox drafts.

AI Engineer
OpenAI NewsAI Automation

Singular Bank's AI Cuts Banker Prep by 90 Minutes/Day

Singular Bank's Singularity, powered by ChatGPT and Codex, delivers real-time portfolio analysis, action recommendations, and compliant comms, saving bankers 60-90 min/day on routine tasks.

AI EngineerAI Automation

Scaling AI Agents to Slack Company Coworkers

Viktor turns personal AI agents into company employees by living in Slack, inheriting one-time integrations for 3,000 tools, isolating memory across channels/DMs, and handling Slack's complex inputs like threads, edits, and drifts—while preserving model personality for user trust.

DAY 04Sunday MAY 10 · 20263 SUMMARIES
AI EngineerAI Automation

Replay Logs Fail Agents: Use VM Snapshots Instead

Replay durability constrains agent code with growing logs; split into context logs (DB durable) and execution snapshots (14MB Firecracker VMs, <1s save/100ms restore) for multi-day sessions.

AI Engineer
WorldofAIAI Automation

Hermes Desktop App Enables Easy Self-Evolving AI Agents

Hermes Agent runs 24/7 persistent, self-improving AI agents locally with long-term memory and closed learning loops; new Desktop App adds intuitive UI for setup, multi-agent management, and tools on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Nate Herk | AI AutomationAI Automation

Build Hermes AI Agent: VPS Setup to Scaled Automations

Follow this step-by-step guide to deploy Hermes Agent on a VPS, integrate Telegram, create skills/crons, backup to GitHub, and scale multiple agents for proactive AI assistance.

DAY 05Saturday MAY 9 · 20267 SUMMARIES
Better StackAI Automation

Archon Fixes AI Agent Randomness with Harness Engineering

Archon uses YAML DAG workflows, isolated git worktrees, and auto-loading agent skills to make AI coding agents produce consistent, repeatable results with clean PRs, even in parallel runs on local hardware like M4 Pro.

Better Stack
SaaStr Blog (Jason Lemkin)AI Automation

AI Agent Handles 60% of Marketing Ops, Frees Humans for Strategy

10K, an AI agent built with gpt-4o-mini in six weeks, automates 1.5-2 FTEs worth of routine marketing tasks ($700/year vs $250K-$400K) like daily reports and drafts, but zero on strategy, hiring, or politics—target workflows, keep humans in the loop.

Y CombinatorAI Automation

Trigger.dev: Async Infra Powers 90% AI Agents

Trigger.dev evolved from Zapier-for-devs background jobs to a reliable SDK for executing AI agents, hitting PMF with v3's hosted execution and checkpoint-resume primitives—perfectly timed for agent era, now 90% usage from agents.

Better StackAI Automation

Symphony: Agents Autonomously Claim and Complete Tasks

OpenAI's Symphony uses issue trackers like Linear to let coding agents claim tasks, spin up isolated workspaces, and only ping humans for reviews—solving the 3-5 session supervision bottleneck. Install by prompting an agent with a 2000+ line spec to build it.

AICodeKingAI Automation

Verdent Manager: AI CTO Builds Apps from One Prompt

Verdent Manager decomposes high-level ideas into parallel tasks, remembers your stack and preferences, pulls specialist skills, integrates with Slack/Telegram, and deploys apps—handling project management so you focus on business.

Nate Herk | AI AutomationAI Automation

Printing Press: CLI Factory for Token-Efficient Agents

Printing Press provides 50+ pre-built CLIs and a factory to turn any tool into a CLI, outperforming APIs (massive JSON) and MCPs (35x more tokens, 72% reliability vs CLI's 100%) for Claude Code agents by delivering clean 200-token outputs without context bloat.

Lukas MargerieAI Automation

Claude + Higgsfield MCP Builds 3 Agency Ad Tools in One Session

Integrate Higgsfield MCP into Claude Code to generate Shopify creative packs, counter 1-star Amazon reviews with UGC ads, and create consistent AI influencers—all from single prompts, replacing full agency workflows.

DAY 06Friday MAY 8 · 202615 SUMMARIES
MarkTechPostAI Automation

Codex Chrome Extension Gives AI Agents Signed-In Browser Access

OpenAI's Codex Chrome extension lets its AI agent use your signed-in Chrome sessions for tasks on LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail, and internal tools, auto-selecting from plugins, Chrome, or in-app browser tiers.

MarkTechPost
AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)AI Automation

Anthropic Open-Sources Wall St Analyst Agents

Anthropic released 10 end-to-end Claude agents mimicking Goldman Sachs analyst roles, with prompts, checklists, 11 licensed data connectors, and 7 vertical bundles—democratizing workflows once locked behind $25k terminals and bank secrecy.

Gen AI SpotlightAI Automation

Free Perplexity LLM Council via OpenCode + MCP

Replicate Perplexity's Max-only LLM Council feature on a Pro account using free OpenCode and Perplexity Web MCP/CLI, enabling multi-model debates that cost 1 Pro search per engagement.

AI LABSAI Automation

DeepSec Structures AI Security Scans on Large Codebases

Vercel's DeepSec harnesses Claude Code and Codex to scan repos via regex filtering, batched parallel agent analysis (Opus 4.7 max effort, GPT 5.5 x-high), and optional revalidation—10-20% false positives, ideal for AI-generated code vulnerabilities.

Nick Puru | AI AutomationAI Automation

Pair OpenClaw + Hermes to Halve AI Costs

Run OpenClaw on Opus for high-stakes planning/review and Hermes on cheap models for execution/volume tasks in a shared workspace—delivers Opus-quality output at 50% lower cost via parallel work and task matching.

AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)AI Automation

Pi + Obsidian CLI Builds Agent-Powered Second Brain

Integrate Pi AI agent with Obsidian's CLI and Graphifi to query markdown notes via structured search, links, and knowledge graphs—reducing token waste and enabling context-aware retrieval without proprietary lock-in.

SaaStr Blog (Jason Lemkin)AI Automation

$254/Month for AI VPs Handling 70% of Ops

SaaStr's custom AI VPs for Marketing (10K, $95/mo) and CS (Qbee, $160/mo) on Replit replace 70% of human operational work costing $500K-800K/year, with full stack at $2,300/mo driving 47% YoY revenue growth.

SaaStr Blog (Jason Lemkin)AI Automation

Production AI Agents: Block Bad Pitches, Isolate DBs, Specialize SDRs

SaaStr runs 20+ agents turning revenue from -19% to +47% YoY; audit by 'would you buy?', use contained platforms like Replit to prevent DB deletions, hire marketers to execute AI VP ideas.

The DecoderAI Automation

Mozilla's Agentic AI Pipeline Uncovers 271 Firefox Vulns

Using Claude Mythos Preview in an agentic pipeline that self-verifies via custom test cases, Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox 150 vulnerabilities—some 20 years old—driving total fixes to 423 in April vs. 76 prior record.

AICodeKingAI Automation

NEO Automates Full ML Pipelines in VS Code from One Prompt

Install NEO VS Code extension to generate synthetic datasets, train models, deploy APIs, and build UIs autonomously for ML tasks like chat moderation, using local files with optional cloud integrations for privacy.

Generative AIAI Automation

Weekend AI Agent Powers HR, Finance, Marketing Unexpectedly

Ship minimal AI tools fast: Pulsar, a weekend scraper for dev trends, surfaced market insights that reshaped strategy and integrated into finance comp analysis, HR onboarding, and marketing calendars.

Lukas MargerieAI Automation

Sell Custom AI Agents to Local Biz: Claude + Poppy Stack

Build AI chat widgets for local businesses using Poppy for knowledge hubs and Claude Code for scraping—deploy via API, charge $1,000–$1,500 setup + monthly subs for updates.

TechCrunch AIAI Automation

AI Clears Healthcare Referral Backlogs with Instant Scheduling

Specialty practices process thousands of faxed referrals manually, causing delays; Basata's AI extracts data from faxes, uses voice agents to call and book patients instantly, handling 500k referrals to date.

Nate Herk | AI AutomationAI Automation

Copy This Lean AI Stack + Frameworks to Beat Overwhelm

Stick to S-tier daily drivers (Claude Code in VS Code + Glido); use tiered stack and decision framework—test new tools only if they solve real pain points in real scenarios, accepting a 20% productivity dip only if it leads to net gains.

MarkTechPostAI Automation

Stealth CloakBrowser Automation in Colab with Persistence

Run Playwright-style stealth Chromium automation in Google Colab by isolating sync APIs in a worker thread; customize contexts with viewport=1365x768, persist localStorage via storage_state.json or profile dirs, and inspect undetectable signals like webdriver=false.

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