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I'm exploring the idea of assigning AI agents a unique email address as a way to facilitate communication with users. The concept is to let these agents interact via email - a channel that most people are already comfortable with - instead of relying solely on new or unfamiliar interfaces.

Here are a few points I'm considering:

- User Familiarity: Since email is a tool nearly everyone uses, could this approach lower the barrier to adoption for interacting with AI agents?

- Asynchronous Communication: Email naturally supports non-real-time interactions, which might help in managing multiple tasks or inquiries without needing immediate responses.

- Integration Benefits: Many existing systems and workflows already incorporate email for notifications and confirmations. Would providing AI agents with their own inbox simplify integration into these established processes?

- Real-Life Example: Imagine a scenario where different AI agents manage various aspects of your daily work. One could handle scheduling, another could deal with project updates, and a third could manage customer inquiries. Each agent would send you email summaries, reminders, or even initiate actions (like booking a meeting), all through the medium you already use regularly.

- Potential Drawbacks: Could this lead to email clutter or introduce security challenges? What measures would be necessary to ensure that the system remains efficient and secure?

I'm keen to hear your thoughts and any potential concerns or alternatives you might suggest. Is this a solid direction for facilitating user interaction with AI, or am I overcomplicating things?

Looking forward to your feedback!

Are there any open source projects to help accelerate building integrations in my saas plafform? I am trying to see if I can quickly integrate connections with google docs, salesforce, hubspot etc.

I want to experiment with building my own phone agent. Currently experimented with bland.ai but it gets expensive. Any open source alternative that I can run on my own?

I have been out of windows ecosystem since XP. I am wondering what's the experience like moving back to Windows ecosystem for a developer. I mainly work with web apps (NodeJS, PHP, Rails, MySQL, Postgres, React etc) and occasionally have to work on some React Native or Ionic mobile apps.

Anyone switched from Apple ecosystem to MS Windows recently? Pros? Cons?

Also, I would need to continue working on a laptop so what's the best comparable laptop that can replace my MacBook 15inch M2 machine?

I have been trying to get back into attending in person networking events and conferences. I am finding it challenging to motivate myself to attend them. For reference, I am trying to attend a few in SF and just the thought of driving of taking Caltrain from San Jose puts me off.

I know that I need to get back in the game to launch my startup but its like I am dragging my soul.

Any tips?

Disclaimer: I know that this is not the best place to seek financial advice. This post is not meant to be a 'give me a recipe'; it's more like a collective thinking post.

So I currently have 2 rental properties netting me $3100/month in rental income. These properties are paid off, so no mortgage payments.

I do live in a HCOL city so my current rent is $5k/month and with kids school, grocery and entertainment it comes to $5k/month; so a total of $10k/month.

Our current liquid cash holding is approx $1.2M.

Wife and I want to start traveling during the summer holidays, but wondering how to best plan for it. i.e. how do we plan it so it makes sense financially.

We also are trying to figure out how to best deploy our cash so that it enables us to make world trips during summer holidays.

Has anyone else planned something like this for their family? How much should we budget for a decent trip to places like Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London, Tokyo etc..

Would love to learn from your experience and discuss how to setup for future.

I seem to keep finding about them on twitter after they have happened. Is there a particular place that people are looking for upcoming events?

I am interested in any meetup, hackathon, conference etc for AI, Generative AI, LangChain, ML etc.

I am planning on resigning from my position next week and have been planning my conversation with my VP (I report directly to her)

I am feeling burnt out for past month or so. Took 2 weeks off earlier this year hoping it will reset it for me but didn’t help. So now I am planning to take a break from professional life and find my rhythm again.

I am also a very private person, don’t like sharing my personal life with coworkers so I don’t want to go into detail with my VP on why I am quitting.

Any tips on how to break ice on this conversation?

I am currently on TN visa and trying to map what are my options when starting my startup.

I can create a Delaware Corp and then apply for E2 visa or should I go with O-1 visa path?

Any fellow Canadians who have done this and can help guide?

I saw it on HN a while back, they had this software (in beta) that was supposedly going to enable us to search and find anything text against any document, zoom call etc that you were on.

Anyone remember their name?

Looking for some experiences of folks who came to silicon valley (or US) on TN visa and then ended up starting a company. How did the experience go, what would you change if you were to do it now, and, how did you handle health insurance at early stage?

For context: I have a wife and 2 kids as well, not sure if that complicates things.

I want to be productive and learn a new stack over the holidays. I have been thinking of creating an app that is something similar to Twitch streaming. The idea is to enable someone to share their screen and camera and instantly offer live stream class. The subscribers will only be viewing the stream and they will have the ability to send messages via chat. I have the chat component finished but now looking into how to make the video streaming component. I have looked into Daily.co, Agora and 100ms but wondering if there are any open source alternates?

I want to try experiment and build a plugin for google docs etc but not sure where to start. Any good tutorial?

Starting to tinker with Stable Diffusion (text-to-image and image-to-image) and wondering if there is a way for me to spin up a rest api interface to the entire thing?

Would help to know if there is an existing effort I can contribute to instead of starting my own.