🎮 The Next Input — Issue #020

The AI That Writes Your Daily Stand-up

Aaron Bost
July 29, 2025

⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec

Sam Altman admits GPT-5 “genuinely scares” him. Calm before the model storm.
Anthropic throttles Claude code power-users with new rate limits. A few bad apples spoil the orchard.
Tesla inks $16.5 B deal with Samsung to fab custom AI chips. Nvidia shrugs; competition inches closer.

🛠️ The Playbook — Claude-Powered Daily Stand-up Synthesiser

Mission Turn every day’s Slack chatter into a concise, AI-written stand-up note that lands in managers’ inboxes by 9 a.m.
Difficulty Medium | Build time 45 min
ROI Teams save ≈ 15 min per dev per day and kill “what did we ship?” guesswork.

Step	Action
1	Trigger – Zapier Schedule → Weekdays 08:30.
2	Slack Search API – Query yesterday’s posts in #dev-standup thread.
3	Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Prompt: “Group updates by project; surface blockers; list next steps in ≤150 words.”
4	Formatter – Convert Claude JSON to Markdown bullet list.
5	Google Docs API – Append note to rolling Stand-up Log doc.
6	Gmail – Email the day’s section to `[email protected]`; subject “Daily Stand-up – {date}”.
7	Fail-safe – If Slack returns < 3 messages, skip Claude call and post “No updates” placeholder.

👀 Why this matters now: Claude’s new “code-lite” rate caps don’t touch plain-text summarisation—making Sonnet the cheapest, safest summariser in town.

🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Prompts

Asset	What it does	Link
LimitBreaker	Plug-and-play token & request throttler for any LLM.	https://limitbreaker.ai
PhoenixGuard	Real-time content-policy filter with fallback models.	https://phoenixguard.io
PromptInspector	Visual diff tool to spot dangerous prompt changes.	https://promptinspector.dev
Prompt: 8-Word Risk Banner	One paste → compliance tag.	prompt below ↓

Write an 8-word banner: “Experimental GPT-5 beta—content may be unsafe.”

💡 Free Office Hours

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🕹️ Game Over

Automate one stand-up tonight—tomorrow’s sync will thank you.
Share your win; you could headline Issue #021.

— Aaron
Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.

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