Build Something: Why I Built My Own AI Assistant

I've been spending time this week building something I probably should have built a year ago, a personal AI assistant. He wakes up every morning before I do, checks my email, processes my meeting notes, and handles the operational grunt work that used to eat an hour out of my day before I ever got to the actual work. Not a tool I bought. One I built. Piece by piece, figuring out what I actually needed instead of what a product manager somewhere thought I needed.

Here is the thing nobody tells you about AI as a productivity tool: the off-the-shelf version is fine, but the one you build for yourself is fascinating. Because you have to think hard about your own workflow to build it. And that thinking, that process of mapping out what you actually do all day, turns out to be valuable on its own.

So yeah, go build something. Even if it is small. Even if it is just for you.

Originally posted on LinkedIn: "Build Something: Why I Built My Own AI Assistant"