I want a tool that detects when the stars have aligned.

· Bits and Bobs 3/31/25
  • I want a tool that detects when the stars have aligned.[st][su]
    • There are some times that the stars align.
      • For example your friend who you haven't seen in awhile happens to be free and in town on the same weekend you are.
      • Or your favorite band from your college years is playing at the local venue.
    • It's extremely hard to detect these things have happened.
    • You need to keep track of dozens of calendars or subscribe to dozens of mailing lists you rarely read.
    • Having too many calendars on screen at once is overwhelming, so you likely don't check the "FYI" calendars proactively very often.
    • It's also hard to write mechanistic rules that would tell you that something interesting that you might want to pay attention to has happened.
      • To do so requires a level of human-like judgment.
    • But now with LLMs you can set a high-level, human intent, and have an intern who never gets bored who can keep an eye on things for you.
    • The rules for the kinds of things you'd want to be notified of could be quite simple to express, if you could assume human-level understanding and base judgment.

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