Geoffrey Litt: Stevens: a hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

The assistant is called Stevens, named after the butler in the great Ishiguro novel Remains of the Day. Every morning it sends a brief to me and my wife via Telegram, including our calendar schedules for the day, a preview of the weather forecast, any postal mail or packages we’re expected to receive, and any reminders we’ve asked it to keep track of. All written up nice and formally, just like you’d expect from a proper butler.

SQLite, cron, and open APIs. This is the type of hacking that I really dig and I've considered putting together as well.

This passage from the end really resonated with me:

I’ve written before about how the endgame for AI-driven personal software isn’t more app silos, it’s small tools operating on a shared pool of context about our lives.

I keep on coming back to the idea that I need to gather more data about myself and store it somewhere easily accessible by custom AI tools. I write a little bit of stuff in Day One, but I keep meaning to build something on top of SQLite as well. Of course, I also keep on hoping Apple would do the same, but they'd probably move too slow to make it interesting.

If only I could clone myself. I have a ton of ideas but not enough time to implement them all. Such is the beauty of life i guess.