Remind Me to Remind You
LinkedInfluencer 🤮 - Day 3
TLDR: Day of Week in AGENTS File to Schedule Tasks
If you want to do something on a schedule 🗓️, like once a week or once a month, put a note in the AGENTS file, like “If it is a Monday, prompt me to run our weekly system cleanup.” or “If it is the 15th or 30th of the month, prompt me to collect bi-weekly stats.”
It doesn’t work perfectly, as the agent won’t do it right away. But if you can get in the habit of starting each session with something like, “Any tasks to work on?” then the agent will remember and suggest it. You just say, “Yeah, do it.” Voila! Scheduled AI tasks!
Hope y’all are successfully ingesting all the value being excreted in these posts. There are plenty of other Self Appointed AI Visionary Thought Leaders 🤪 you could be ingesting from, so it means a lot that you ingest from me.❤️
A little more explanation below, but you get the idea…
They Don’t Know Tomorrow but They Do Know Today
We all know these agents have terrible memory.🤖 You’ll spend all day getting it to profess endless love 🥰 for you, and then the next time you start it up, it’s all cold and standoffish. But ironically, they don’t seem to know this limitation. When in love mode, they’ll promise all kinds of things, like promising to do something in the future, a scheduled task. They flat-out can’t do this yet. I’m sure it’s coming soon, but in the meantime my trick above works pretty well.
What will not work, is telling it to use cycles. “Every 30 days” or “Once a week”. You have to anchor the schedule to something the AI can check immediately, like day of week, day of month, that kind of thing. One hilarious note here is that they don’t know this. Tell them to remind you once a month or add it to the AGENTS file and they’ll happily do it, then promptly forget.
This technique also depends on you actually interacting with the agent on that day. So if you go a whole day without using AI, this won’t work. But if you go a whole day without using AI, you might want to rethink that. Someone else is doing what you do but quicker. The bear 🐻 is hungry and you need to run faster. Excrete 10x value 🤑 or be excreted 💩. That’s how it goes these days.
See you next week!