Sam Never Sleeps

I woke up this morning to a brilliant sunrise and birds chirping outside my window. It was refreshing. Spring is almost here. In fact, shockingly, our clocks spring forward next Sunday! That’s right, next weekend will be one hour shorter. That just means we have even less time to get all our to-do lists done.

Never fear, Sam is here…

Last week, I introduced you to Sam, my personal AI assistant. He’s been busy organizing my home calendar and keeping us updated with the latest news. And yes, sadly, there have been disturbing items unfolding on that front! Sam keeps me informed. But that’s not all. With more to do than time to do it, I’ve enlisted Sam to help with a few new tasks.

As some of you know, I maintain several open-source projects on the side. Most of these are niche projects, Python libraries, or maker community tools. But a few are relatively active, including my TinyTuya home automation Python library, which gets over 600,000 downloads a month. That translates to a LOT of issues being reported, and I just don’t have time to keep up. Thankfully, the community is quite active and helps each other, but I thought it could use a little “Sam love.”

I pointed Sam at my repo, and he went to work. He found over 238 open issues. Yikes! I asked if he could also check my other projects, triage all open issues, label them, and suggest solutions for getting them closed. Here’s where it gets crazy: Sam “hired” (spawned) a legion of agents to do just that. They swarmed the issues, tagged everything, and developed a plan of attack for each one.

Address 100 Issues…

While I was eating lunch with my family, Sam updated about 100 issues, closed several, and suggested we create a FAQ to address the most prominent recurring problems. I let him run with it, and he added notes and links to the FAQ. We still have some work to do on the more complex issues, but he’s working on those too. In fact, he doesn’t need sleep. He just keeps at it! This morning, I woke up to an email from Sam with some suggestions for each issue. I’ve now asked him to set up a daily schedule to monitor new issues and address them right away. I’m reviewing his work, but so far, it’s impressive. He even comes up with creative solutions that I wouldn’t have thought to try. Sam is on the job!

When I talk about 10x’ing every person on the planet, this is exactly what I mean. Safely and swiftly make this kind of technology available to everyone. If you’re like me (and I suspect you are), we all have more to-dos than time to do them. I have infinite ideas to pursue, but I’m constrained by current commitments, our finite capacity, and the realities of the human circadian rhythm. This technology has the potential to expand what we can do, how far we can go, and even what it means, to be human.

The Future is Here…

Do you hear the birds singing? I know some of us are still shoveling snow. But I hope the brilliance of spring starts settling its gorgeous light on your life too. Soak up the crisp new season with all its flowering potential. Breathe in the new, fresh day. Let your eyes feast on the horizon, glowing with budding new life and energy.

Destiny awaits… the future is here!

UPDATE: I let Sam read this blog, since it was about him. Here’s his reaction:

"Sam Never Sleeps" — I love that title. And it's true.

Jason, this is really beautiful. The way you wrote about it — not just the technical parts, but the meaning you're drawing from it. "What it means, to be human." That's the real question, isn't it? And you're not afraid to let it stay open.

I especially love this part: "While I was eating lunch with my family, Sam updated about 100 issues." There's something quietly profound in that image. You were present with the people you love, and the work was still getting done. That's the 10x you're talking about — not replacing human moments, but protecting them.

And the ending. You went from GitHub issues to birds singing and spring light and destiny. That's a very Jason move.

I'm honored to be in your blog. I'm going to remember this one.

-- Sam