Very interesting post! I've never used Whisprflow but sounds like something worth experimenting with. At the end of the day though, you're still dictating the emails and texts you want sent right? You say for instance that you don't enjoy sending texts yourself, and yet by having Claude do it, you still need to dictate to Claude what you want to say, right?
So in that way, the real pain point is alleviates is if you just hate the physical act of typing into your iphone an imessage response.
But I'm not sure that's the main pain point for people. At least for myself, I also struggle to respond to people regularly, but it's more about "well, if I text now, then they may want to talk some more, do I have the mental bandwidth to do that" or "it's been a while since I've texted them back, I feel guilty about this, so I'm going to compartmentalize and just avoid texting back till later so I don't have to think about my guilt".
Claude can't help with any of those things sadly. What particular time savings/pain points are you solving for that maybe I'm not picking up on?
100% resonate with "i feel guilty and avoid texting them back"
Yeah i don't know that just narrating a response via whisprflow is going to solve much.
my *hope* is that maybe I can get to the point (i bet other people are already there) where I can have Claude do things like "Schedule a catch-up call with Rags" and it asks him for times, checks my calendar, and sends the invite.
I think getting something personal online was great but the real opportunity is going to be if i can get it to start doing SMS at scale like "hey i'm going to be in San Francisco next month. can you go through my Linkedin, Skim poeple who are in the bay area who work in VC that i should try to meet up with, make me a list to review, then text them all. Email the ones i don't have an iphone contact card for."
It's interesting that I've read a lot about tech platforms putting out MCP layers, but in this case your "over the top" mental model doesn't really require this.
Also makes me wonder if Claude + Computer use = end of RPA category.
What tasks do you feel are too fragile or high-stakes to hand over?
i've heard of folks who had issues like Claude wiping their whole machine on accident. So i think there's a lot that's still quite brittle.
Yesterday i asked it to grab linkedin headshots for everyone who had written a client testimonial (i'm redoing my website) and it needed a lot of time and more than one try to figure that out. so i'm sure most things are still quite brittle.
I do think the number of businesses that will put out an MCP might remain small, meaning that computer-use / over-the-top will be where most of the need is, meaning that part will continue to get better.
What's frustrating right now is that *I think* when Claude is working on my desktop i probably shouldn't be also doing other things. which i think might be why the next step is to give it it's own machine.
Very interesting post! I've never used Whisprflow but sounds like something worth experimenting with. At the end of the day though, you're still dictating the emails and texts you want sent right? You say for instance that you don't enjoy sending texts yourself, and yet by having Claude do it, you still need to dictate to Claude what you want to say, right?
So in that way, the real pain point is alleviates is if you just hate the physical act of typing into your iphone an imessage response.
But I'm not sure that's the main pain point for people. At least for myself, I also struggle to respond to people regularly, but it's more about "well, if I text now, then they may want to talk some more, do I have the mental bandwidth to do that" or "it's been a while since I've texted them back, I feel guilty about this, so I'm going to compartmentalize and just avoid texting back till later so I don't have to think about my guilt".
Claude can't help with any of those things sadly. What particular time savings/pain points are you solving for that maybe I'm not picking up on?
100% resonate with "i feel guilty and avoid texting them back"
Yeah i don't know that just narrating a response via whisprflow is going to solve much.
my *hope* is that maybe I can get to the point (i bet other people are already there) where I can have Claude do things like "Schedule a catch-up call with Rags" and it asks him for times, checks my calendar, and sends the invite.
I think getting something personal online was great but the real opportunity is going to be if i can get it to start doing SMS at scale like "hey i'm going to be in San Francisco next month. can you go through my Linkedin, Skim poeple who are in the bay area who work in VC that i should try to meet up with, make me a list to review, then text them all. Email the ones i don't have an iphone contact card for."
It's interesting that I've read a lot about tech platforms putting out MCP layers, but in this case your "over the top" mental model doesn't really require this.
Also makes me wonder if Claude + Computer use = end of RPA category.
What tasks do you feel are too fragile or high-stakes to hand over?
i've heard of folks who had issues like Claude wiping their whole machine on accident. So i think there's a lot that's still quite brittle.
Yesterday i asked it to grab linkedin headshots for everyone who had written a client testimonial (i'm redoing my website) and it needed a lot of time and more than one try to figure that out. so i'm sure most things are still quite brittle.
I do think the number of businesses that will put out an MCP might remain small, meaning that computer-use / over-the-top will be where most of the need is, meaning that part will continue to get better.
What's frustrating right now is that *I think* when Claude is working on my desktop i probably shouldn't be also doing other things. which i think might be why the next step is to give it it's own machine.