I Built an AI Assistant That Works While I Sleep
All the Hacks: Money, Points & Life
Chris Hutchins
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This morning, I woke up to a message from my assistant, Ted, with a briefing that included |
| 0:04.4 | calendar highlights for the day, my sleep score, a meal plan for dinner, including the groceries |
| 0:09.0 | we need, my cars charge level, a weather forecast, a summary of emails that came in overnight, |
| 0:15.1 | and some insights from a podcast analytics project that he decided to take on on his own. |
| 0:20.2 | He also flagged the new Japan |
| 0:22.1 | Airlines transfer bonus from Capital One because he thought it might be relevant to my upcoming |
| 0:26.7 | Japan trip. On the surface, that's not that impressive. Plenty of people have capable assistants |
| 0:32.1 | who send emails like that all the time. What's impressive is that Ted is an AI assistant |
| 0:37.4 | I put together just a few days ago, |
| 0:40.1 | and in that time, I feel like I've seen the future, and I can barely sleep just thinking about it. |
| 0:45.7 | So today I'm going to share the story of how someone who would never be hired as a software engineer, |
| 0:49.8 | got started with all of this, how I decide what to build, how it's improving my life, |
| 1:14.0 | and the stack of tools and services I'm using, basically everything I think a non-technical person might want to know to do some of this themselves. I'm Chris Hutchins. If you enjoy this episode, leave a comment or share it with a friend. And if you want to keep upgrading your money points in life, click follow or subscribe. Now, before we get into this episode, I just want to flag that I'm going to try something different today. Normally, I do a lot of work to prep for an episode, hours and hours and |
| 1:19.1 | hours. It's not quite off the cuff. Today is the opposite. Today, I had this idea after all |
| 1:25.1 | of my excitement building stuff in the last few days that I thought, let's just record an off the cuff episode. It's way more casual. It's definitely not as organized and well researched, but there's a ton of good information, and I've tried to put it together, and I really hope it's going to be valuable. So how do we even get here? I want to give you a little bit of context because I didn't just start building this AI |
| 1:45.1 | assistant. |
| 1:45.9 | I started the way most of you probably did. |
| 1:47.8 | Just chatting with chat GPT. |
| 1:49.5 | Back in 2022, I remember when I first signed up for chat GPT, I was blown away and it just |
| 1:55.5 | felt like something new, something cool. |
| 1:57.7 | It didn't feel as different in that first moment as I think it now does. It felt |
| 2:02.6 | like a great way to access all of this knowledge. But I was kind of already decent at researching |
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