Darren Used Grok to Negotiate His Own Internet Bill Down
This is a different, firsthand story from the GrokBot mention already in the archive (a secondhand Dallas-mom testimonial relayed on No Agenda) — Darren actually ran the…
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Hamlet (MyHamlet.com): The AI Tool That Makes Every Local Government Meeting Searchable
JC mentioned using MyHamlet.com while digging into a segment about a sport-court-construction trend showing up in city council meetings nationwide — it’s a real research tool, and…
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Why a $20 AI Subscription Beats Buying Local AI Hardware
Gene built his own AI-usage tracker this week and used it to make a pitch: local AI hardware that can keep pace with cloud models starts around…
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MiniMax-M2: The Local AI Model to Run If You’ve Got 32GB
Gene’s running MiniMax (MiniMax-M2, the open-weight model from Chinese AI lab MiniMax) as his local LLM, and says it’s the fastest option out there if your machine…
Teach Your AI Assistant a Voice Shortcut to Control Your Smart Speakers
Adam’s follow-up tip of the day in the same segment — he calls it “the sexier tip.” Rather than fighting with a smart-speaker app’s own controls (he…
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podcastindexrobot.com — Point Your AI Robot at Any Podcast and Skip the Ads
Adam built an MCP server (a connector that lets an AI agent query a data source) on top of the Podcast Index, the free, open podcast database…
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Grok — Ask It to Find and Clip Any Podcast Audio Instantly
Darren’s real-world Grok use case: he asked it about Keith Olbermann’s “Trump wrote me a fan letter” claim, then asked it to find and clip the exact…
“Comrades” and “Stonks Park” — Full-Length AI-Generated Sitcom Parodies
Gene’s latest “AI video has arrived” discovery: full 15-minute, laugh-track sitcom episodes, entirely AI-generated. Comrades is a Friends parody where the roommates are Mao, Stalin, Che Guevara,…
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What It Actually Costs to Run AI Locally — Mac Studio vs. Nvidia DGX Spark
Gene ran the real numbers on ditching cloud AI for your own hardware. A maxed-out Mac Studio (M5 Ultra, 256GB RAM, 8TB SSD) runs about $14,000. The…
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Muse, Part 3 — Trip Planning, Recipe Tweaks, and Outsmarting Amazon’s Own Pricing
Adam’s been on Meta’s Muse for a couple of weeks now and calls it outstanding. Real examples from the show: it’s helping plan his upcoming Malaysia trip,…
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AI Pricing Engines Are Already Setting Your Price — McDonald’s, Chipotle, and the Lyft/Uber Precedent
Andrew’s take on where AI is headed fast: McDonald’s has built an “AI pricing engine” that sets a different price for the same Big Mac at stores…
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GrokBot — A Secondhand “My Life Has Changed” Story
J.Cal relayed an unprompted testimonial from a friend of his wife’s — a single mom working from home in Dallas — about Grok’s AI agent: “She says,…
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Muse, Part 2 — Customizing Your Own AI Agent and Making It Save You Money
Since the #1906 Muse post already went out, here’s the follow-up: Adam’s been digging into how customizable the thing actually is. Every Muse agent starts from an…
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Muse — Meta’s New AI Agent App
Adam Curry’s wife Tina has been using Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, and Adam was genuinely impressed by how she’s putting it to work — not…
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Grok Auto-Configured a Home Router’s Guest Network
A smaller, very practical AI use case: Gene had Grok add a separate guest network for his IoT devices. He pointed it at the router’s admin page,…
Dave’s Garage — YouTube Channel
A genuine shout-out from Darren for Dave’s Garage, a YouTube channel run by a former Microsoft engineer credited with inventing Task Manager. Darren watches a couple videos…
ASUS Ascent GX10 — The Machine Now Partly Running the No Agenda Show
Producer Eric Timmer, out of Austin, sent Adam an ASUS Ascent GX10 — NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with 128GB of unified memory — after it had…
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Dropbox, Grokbot, and Eggbot — Dana Brunetti’s AI Workflow
Dana Brunetti’s actual Tip of the Day pick: anyone building AI agents/bots beyond a basic ChatGPT or Claude chat session should look at Dropbox specifically for how…
Breeze — Open-Source AI Voice Cloning
Talking about AI-generated influencers, Darren named a specific open-source voice tool: “there’s also other platforms that will let you create voices, that there’s one called Breeze that’s…
Adam Built His Own Podcast Production Software With Omarchy Linux — in 25 Minutes
Adam described the free, open-source Linux setup his own studio runs on: “The install is Omarchy… You download it onto a USB stick, stick it in your…
