Can you make a video about agent loops and agent harnesses?
Loops have been interesting to play with. The simplest way to get started: before you go to bed, give your AI agent a goal, and have it loop every X minutes as part of achieving that goal — this solves the problem of a model finishing a goal too early, and lets you trade tokens/time for quality since it doesn't matter if it takes 8 hours while you're asleep. Example: I wanted to scaffold out possible structures for a free community, so I set a goal and had it loop every 15 minutes overnight — over about 8 hours that's roughly 32 independent passes, each consulting the master list of ideas so far and adding a few new ones, ending with a massive list of options. A second major use is loops for software optimization: set up a loop where every X minutes an agent spawns and tries to improve some metric you care about (like page load speed) on a live property — it's essentially 'auto-research in a box,' logging what it's tried before and improving a test metric over time. The downside nobody talks about much: loops burn a ton of tokens — creators pushing loops are often fine spending $2-3K/month on AI tokens, so if you don't have that kind of budget, it can be a rough way to work.
Thank you. I had a great rest last night and I'm on fire today. If you want to talk about consistency and discipline, the best way is to get 8 to 9 hours of sleep each night—it makes everything easier. You asked about making a video on how to create an AI appointment setter; that would help a lot. Are you referring to an AI voice agent? If so, check out my AI voice agent—search for it, as Googling my content helps boost my rankings. One of my daily updates videos appears there, and there's also Nick's AI net worth search, which is funny. Another option is the AI agent, probably the website agent I built, which does some setting for you—give it a try and let me know your thoughts.
When I make videos like this, I constantly balance how deep to go on one person’s question versus covering enough to help many viewers. That’s why I don’t go super deep on niche topics like AI agent orchestration from a phone—most people are dealing with more fundamental issues, like the ones Muhammad and Sam raised. It’s also a matter of top‑of‑funnel versus bottom‑of‑funnel content. My recommendation is to stop worrying about queuing tasks from your phone and instead focus on the actual bottom‑line ROI you’re generating with your current workflow. Many people try to apply AI agents to everything because it sounds cool, but in my own experience, only a small fraction of my most valuable actions over the past week involved agents. I do use them for preliminary research, scoping, scaffolding, or creating outlines, but the core revenue drivers—what actually makes me money—come from me, not the agents. The real ROI lies in simple, repeatable systems like Getting Things Done by David Allen: having a place to capture ideas, checking back to decide if something is actionable, and then working through a clear next‑action flow. It may sound boring, but that’s where the real secrets are—rooted in proven, past‑tested methods, not chasing the latest AI trends.
They’re essentially free to run—about $20 a month plus any token usage. If you want to replicate the setup, just follow one of my courses from start to finish. The agent is just the harness with connectors and context for your environment. Platforms like Grockbot abstract away credential management, making it easy to connect everything and unlock more value.
No problem at all. I don't think your situation is necessarily the hardest question I've gotten. You have four hours a day, which is more time than many people have—not to minimize your conditions. My father has scoliosis, which really affects his back; your girlfriend has asthma, and I've heard of adrenal insufficiency before, which can interfere with motivation, stimulation, sleep, etc. Obviously, that's a massive pain. Anyway, you've got four hours a day—a synthetic constraint. Artificial constraints, believe it or not, are actually good over the long term because they force you to be as effective and efficient as possible with every available minute. Whereas someone else might have a full day to do whatever they want, you don't; you have a rule set in place, an evolutionary pressure that will make you better and more effective with your time. So it's harder, but the flip side is you'll be significantly more effective five or ten years out. Where would you start? I'd recommend typing in 'nix arrive 80% of automation basics in 29 minutes'—a solid video that covers what you need to know to get up and running with AI automation. From there, you could take my AI automation NAD course, which is six hours and runs you through everything needed to build automations with NAD, because you'll have hit the 80/20 moment right before this, understanding some business fundamentals. Then, if you just go on my YouTube channel over here, you'll find the daily updates channel—a compilation of daily updates and other stuff—and my video 'Watch Me Start and Sell.' This one's a while ago, but okay; check it out as well—it's one of the most viewed videos on my channel. It runs you through AI automation basics, how to build a system out in an automation platform like NIN, and some AI fundamentals. How do we actually go about putting this in front of people? That's more or less it. Okay, so start there; as long as you're consistent and motivated, you've got this buddy. Okay, guys, I think I'm going to leave it there. One big thing I'm doing right now with the retrospective I'm writing—the big lifestyle audit and the big blog post—is just auditing where I'm spending my time. I've realized the daily update videos are unfortunately growing into more of a behemoth than I initially planned. The average post time over the last ~20 videos is about 47 minutes—too long. So it's hard for me to stay on top of all this stuff. I'm instituting a 20 to 25 minute maximum. I don't exactly know how fast I'll do these, but this will necessitate a change in the structure of the daily updates. Fortunately for me, unfortunately for a lot of people I was doing unstructured Q&A sessions for—which is all good—I'm still going to do Q&A and show up every day, but for my own time I'll have to change the structure and how I do it. I'm going to obviously try to implement, as I was just talking about EMOD, some sort of structure that lets me use this constraint positively: deliver more value per unit time, not less. That will buy me back about a half hour of my day, which is very much needed right now. A couple other things I'm going to do: I'm going to change how I'm doing my administration by hiring a virtual assistant again, and having the VA take care of a lot of my mundane email admin stuff. I've been dealing with all of my refund requests entirely on my own, which I understand is not optimal, but I've always just been like, 'well, screw it.' I've been dealing with one-off questions about the program entirely on my own. Somebody reached out to me asking, 'Hey, Nick, you know, how do I access my subscription portal for Maker School?' I'll actually go through and answer that question. I have like five or ten variants of those questions every day. If everyone takes a minute, you could see how these sorts of things add up—right? I answer one-off questions about, 'Hey, does Maker School include this?' or 'Does make money with Make.com include that?' It just ends up being a boatload of time. I'm going to be changing a little bit about how the agency is operating as well. I有