u/fermatf

morning news briefing seems to be one of the more popular openclaw use cases here. mine worked fine, but reading it on a phone before coffee was always the worst part of it.

so a few weeks ago i wired the briefing output into a podcast feed. tts the text, host the mp3, append it to an xml that serves as my rss. subscribed to it in apple podcasts. now i just get in the car at 7:30 and the briefing is already there waiting.

then i kept finding more uses for it. i paste a substack article to it and a few minutes later it pops up as an episode i can listen to later. weirdly addictive. i listen way more now than i used to when it was just text.

workflow is not complicated if anyone wants to build their own. i also packaged it as an mcp server in case someone wants to skip the build (you bring your own openai key). happy to answer setup questions in comments either way.

curious if anyone else here is piping their oc output to a podcast app, or if i am alone in finding this kinda magical

gave it my card a few months ago to handle weekly grocery runs using mcp server. ran great. every sunday a normal basket, normal price, picked stuff i actually eat.

yesterday it ordered 2 kg of garlic instead of 2 heads. the kg unit was the default on that product page and it didn't notice. i didn't notice either because for 3 months it never screwed up.

so now i have a garlic situation. anyone else letting their agent shop and have a similar story, or am i the only one who got too comfortable

At work there was always someone reacting to a slack message or saying thanks for handling something. i thought it was just noise. apparently it was doing more than i realized

Now its quiet and im second-guessing things i used to just ship. didnt expect that

Anyone else experience similar feelings when they went solo ?