Ep 874: Scheduling AI: how to easily make AI work for you in Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT (Replay)

Jordan Wilson (0:00)

Welcome to the Everyday AI Podcast. My name is Jordan Wilson, and for the past three and a half years, we put out more than 800 episodes. Yet, one of the most common questions I get, I didn't really have an answer for. Where do I start on the Everyday AI Podcast? And that's why we started the Start Here series. And with the fall now back in full swing, the Everyday AI Podcast is going back to school and playing back the entire Start Here series from front to back. We've hit pause on our normal Monday to Friday programming to run back our most popular series ever for the next 30 days. We made the Start Here series for beginners and AI champions alike. So whether you're just trying to get a grasp on large language models or grappling with the best coding harness for multi-agentic workflows, the Start Here series covers it all. Plain language, no jargon, and easy to follow along each day. So make sure to subscribe to the podcast and check back each day for new insights, day by day. The series is a culmination of spending more than 10,000 hours covering generative AI over the past three and a half years. So you don't want to miss a single episode of the Start Here series. Let's get into it. Welcome to the Everyday AI Podcast. My name is Jordan Wilson, and for the past three and a half years, we've put out more than 800 episodes. Yet one of the most common questions I get, I didn't really have an answer for. Where do I start on the Everyday AI Podcast? And that's why we started the Start Here series. And with fall now back in full swing, the Everyday AI Podcast is going back to school and playing back the entire Start Here series from front to back. We've hit pause on our normal Monday to Friday programming to run back our most popular series ever for the next 30 days. We made the Start Here series for beginners and AI champions alike. So whether you're just trying to get a grasp on large language models or grappling with the best coding harness for multi-agentic workflows, the Start Here series covers it all. Plain language, no jargon and easy to follow along each day. So make sure to subscribe to the podcast and check back each day for new insights, day by day. The series is a culmination of spending more than 10,000 hours covering generative AI over the past three and a half years. So you don't want to miss a single episode of the Start Here series. Let's get into it.

Maybe you aren't fully agent-pilled like me yet, and that's okay. It could be because your company hasn't given you the green light to go full desktop agent yet with Codex or Claude code, or maybe you're still just getting comfortable with the web interfaces of Google Gemini, ChatGPT or Anthropics Claude. But don't worry, you can still get a taste of that sweet, proactive, agentic life where you start your morning and a good chunk of your work is already done for you. Well, how? If you can't be using these autonomous desktop agents, how in the world can you get that? Well, they're called scheduled tasks. So think of scheduled tasks in today's large language models, kind of as the gateway drug to being fully agent-pilled. So if you haven't or can't make the big desktop leap to running agents around the clock, you're not out of luck, because these scheduled tasks are a legit secret weapon. So secret, in fact, that sometimes it's hard to even find it and the capabilities aren't even fully known or documented. So we're going to be diving into that on today's show as we put AI to work on Wednesdays. Yeah, it is our day where we go hands-on, but here is the big picture. Scheduling is one of the most underrated features in today's large language models, at least when it comes to being on the web. Because most of your routine use cases that you're using large language models for right now, well, you're probably repetitive and you're probably doing a lot of the same things over and over. And well, they can just be done for you. Instead of you just being a button pusher doing the same type of task, whether you know it or not, you can actually just have those be done automatically and wake up and have them done. But I think scheduling tasks has gone through so many different name and interface changes in all the platforms. It's sometimes a little confusing or you might not know how it works. There's actually a handful of hidden features when you're scheduling inside of specifically ChatGPT and Claude. On today's show, that's exactly what we're going to dive into, and here's what you're going to learn. You're going to learn the basics on why scheduling is so important and how to easily do it in the main platforms. You're going to know what features work well in scheduling and which ones don't. I'm going to tell you the best use cases for scheduling to take a step toward a more proactive and agentic workflow.