Posts tagged "ai-agents"

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Michael Leibovich: How I Built My AI Chief of Staff

Linkpost| In AI
| 2 minute read

Detailed write-up by Michael Leibovich on how he used Claude Code (inside the Claude Desktop app) for implementing his own Chief of staff setup.

As someone running a very similar setup myself, I particularly liked his use-case descriptions and the insights coming out of “externalizing your thinking”. I can totally relate to that!

Also, I agree that installing Obsidian and giving Claude access to it through its REST API plugin and MCP are great for giving it a structured, extra memory layer beyond its own memory mechanism. Claude can write Obsidian-style Markdown documents directly to the file system which is faster than going through the MCP/API, but the real value is the ability to search for existing documents through MCP that allows Claude to discover notes, make cross-correlations and more.

I would add a few things from my own perspective here:

In a Marvel comic-style recreation of the nucleological center from *The Fifth Element*, a futuristic command hub features glowing orange controls and blue monitoring stations. A man in a blue suit with a red tie grimaces as a woman leans in to whisper to him, with a speech bubble reading ‘You have 19 more meetings after this one.’ Behind them, several crew members in blue uniforms work at stations, while a large illuminated circular portal or control interface dominates the center wall with its warm orange glow. The scene captures the iconic sci-fi aesthetic of the original setting, reimagined in bold comic book art style.

Welcome Claude, my Chief of Staff

| In AI
| 28 minute read

Most people use AI like a search engine with extra steps. Ask a question, get an answer, move on. I did too, until I accidentally stumbled into something completely different.

Over the week, I’ve turned Claude into my personal Chief of Staff. What’s a Chief of Staff, you might ask? Think of these people who follow executives around, whispering important things into their ear, and making sure nothing falls through the cracks.

If you’ve watched The Fifth Element (go watch it, if you haven’t, it’s a great movie!), you know the scene: the president’s aide leans in and whispers something absurdly specific like “You have 19 more meetings after this one.” That’s essentially what Claude does for me now. Except I’m not a president. And thankfully, I have less meetings. I’m a freelance consultant living near a forest in Bavaria.

This post is a bit of a recap: how it happened, what the system actually looks like, three lessons I learned along the way, and, at the end, an unedited interview where I asked Claude seven questions about what it’s like to be my Chief of Staff, with some interesting insights. Don’t miss it!

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Zed does Agents now

| In AI
| 4 minute read

About two weeks ago, Zed, my favourite code editor, introduced agentic coding, replacing its previous assistant panel on the right of its UI. A blog post walks through the way agents work in Zed now. The documentation now has an Agent Panel section. I’ve used it a bit for tweaking some stuff around …