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

Episode Date: October 3, 2026

Scheduled tasks are a secret weapon. ⚔️How secret? They can actually be hard to find and there's not a lot of info out there on how to use them. lolz. But for many, they can be the stepping stone to the fully autonomous desktop worker. Because for many users who may only be able (or comfortable) to access AI on the web, scheduled tasks provide that proactive, work-done-for-you vibe that AI agents delivered. But how does it work in Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude? And what's worth scheduling and automating? We put AI to work on this Wednesday and find out. Scheduling AI: how to easily make AI work for you in Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson (Replay)Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageToday's Episode on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn and connect with other AI leaders.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: [e-mail] with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:Introduction to Scheduling Tasks in AIGoogle Gemini Scheduled Actions OverviewChatGPT Scheduled Tasks Features & HacksChatGPT Work Mode and Virtual BrowserClaude Scheduled Tasks vs. Routines ComparisonUsing API Triggers with Claude Code RoutinesReal-World AI Dashboard Scheduling TestDetailed Results: Gemini vs. Claude vs. ChatGPTKey Takeaways for Best Automated SchedulingPractical Use Cases for Scheduling AI TasksTimestamps:00:00 Using scheduled tasks effectively06:00 Adopting AI for productivity06:51 Discussing main AI platforms12:45 Scheduling tasks with ChatGPT14:38 Work mode and virtual browsing17:58 Creating and Editing Scheduled Tasks22:47 Using Claude's cloud routines26:59 Creating interactive stock visuals27:51 Tracking AI company stock trends31:58 Reviewing AI stock tracking tool35:35 Improving user interface and experience39:23 ChatGPT's unique scheduling features41:49 Using APIs in Claude routines44:45 Dashboard automation and triage setupKeywords: AI scheduling, scheduling AI, scheduled tasks, scheduled actions, proactive agentic workflow, agentic adoption, agent built workflow, Google Gemini, Gemini scheduled actions, Gemini connectors, Gemini canvas mode, ChatGPT scheduling, ChatGPT scheduled tasks, ChatGPT work mode, ChatGPT projects, ChatGPT memory, ChatGPT sites, agentic app actions, model selector, reasoning level, app automation, connectors and skills, OpenAI, Claude scheduling, Claude scheduled tasks, Claude routines, Claude code, Claude co work, Claude home, Claude API token, Zapier integration, trigger-based automation, custom dashboards, triage dashboard, interactive visual, stock price dashboard, news summarization, personalized automation, user interface changes, web interfaces, desktop agents, repetitive tasks automation, business process automation, workflow optimization, productivity AI tools, AI-powered research, CRM integration, KPI trackingSend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info)

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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 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 grader, 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. 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 ClaudeCode, or maybe you're still just getting comfortable with the web interfaces of Google Gemini, Chad GPT, or Anthropics Claw. 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 tests 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. And there's actually a handful of hidden features when you're scheduling inside of specifically chat GPT and thought. So 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 in 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. And I'm going to tell you the best use cases for scheduling to take a step toward a more proactive and agentic workflow. All right. Let's get into it. What's going on? My name's Jordan Wilson.

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but I guarantee if you stick with this series from Volume 1 through Volume 30 and you put the work in, you'll know more than about 99% of the other people. people in your company when it comes to AI. So no jargon, no fluff, no computer science degree required. Class starts Monday. Don't be late. All right. Let's get into today's episode, though, when we're going to be talking about scheduling AI and how to easily make AI work for you, right, in Claude, Gemini and Chad, GBT. Yeah, because I don't know, I think there was a certain time before this was a feature. I was like, can we get this? Please, right? I remember seeing back in like 20, 24, when there was rumors, right, of these kind of scheduled tasks or, you know,

scheduled actions, they've gone under a lot of name changes. I remember when these were just leaks and rumors and I'm like, oh, my gosh, this will completely change the way the world uses large language models. And guess what? It didn't. Mainly because I think a lot of the companies kind of change things around so much or they buried these and made them hard to find, which is actually interesting. because I think that the kind of the agentic adoption was slower than it maybe could have been

if not if if these you know kind of scheduled options or features would have been earlier in front and center because if I'm being honest I was a very early adopter of these like the day it came out I remember I think it was Chad Chippee Tass that was the first to come out it might have been in like late 2024, I started moving all of my workflows over to chat, GPT tasks. And I think that process, you know, I always talk about this concept of unlearning and rebuilding. I think that was actually one of the most important steps for me to prepare myself for, you know, moving most of our processes and even my thinking, my creativity, my brainstorming into an agentic workflow because, you know, you really have to start deconstruct, you know, to deconstruct, you know, to deconstructing,

deconstruct your entire process when you're like, okay, wait, I can wake up and have all of this stuff done for me, right? You start, I think, thinking less in terms of what do I need to do next. Instead, you start thinking, what is the end goal, right? And then you start working your way backwards from that and saying, how can I have this end goal waiting for me in the morning? All right. So let's go through the three main platforms. All right. And, you know, if you don't know, the three main platforms anyways are Gemini, Claude and chat GPT. So yeah,

technically co-pilot. It's just too messy to do this, right? I can show you the online version of co-pilot, but almost every single one of our listeners, if you're using copilot, you're using it on the desktop. The reason why I'm not doing co-pilot, well, number one, I want a Mac.

But number two, even if I was on a PC, it is entirely too difficult in terms of permissions. in terms of jumping through all of these different hoops. So it's almost like to show you these things, it would kind of be a waste because you would go out and be like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. And you would try and do it. And it wouldn't work.

I actually did a show previously on the online version of Microsoft tasks, which I think are really good. So, you know, I'll make sure to drop that one in today's newsletter. But let's get into Google Gemini. So here's the quick rundown on Gemini's version. And these are called Gemini's Schedule. actions. So let me just be honest. Not that good. They're hard to find. They're buggy. It's extremely

limited in terms of features and the user interface. And you also can't schedule via normal check. And unfortunately, when you try to do that, you're actually going to get some false positives. So the other downside is if you, once you do get them scheduled, if you don't use them or check in on them, they will be automatically disabled, which stinks, right? So, yeah, a lot of downsides. So here's how you're going to find them. So if you just go to jemini.com, make sure you're logged in. So if you're looking on the left hand panel, they're not going to be there.

All right. So, you know, fortunately, Chad GBT and Claude did move these schedule tasks for them. That's what they're called front and center on the main nav bar. So Google Gemini, no such luck. So you have to actually look in your settings and there you'll see these scheduled actions. All right. So once you do that, then essentially you are met with a very simple and straightforward enough scheduled action box where you just essentially type it in.

So you give it a name, you give it instructions, you say how often and then a time. And that's it. right it's an extremely simple interface no bells no whistles and the downside is well it's not that useful if i'm being honest right uh so next up and i am gonna i do have an example uh you know one kind of simple s prompt that i did um and then at the very end after i show you these examples so yeah this is one FYI and this is one is technically pre-recorded uh because it's going to be it was a little difficult to, you know, go through all of my different systems without accidentally doxing myself. And also, these are scheduled, right? So I didn't want to schedule these

for, you know, oh, 745 and then, oh, I'm done before then, right? Because, you know, the live stream kicks off at 7.30 a.m. Central Sandersheim. So it was going to be a little tricky to try to get all these to schedule live and in real time. So yeah, this is one of those shows for AI at work on Wednesdays, normally very hands on doing live prompts, all that. So this is more of, you know, hey, I'm going to show you how to cook, put it in the oven. And guess what? It's already done. Got the cake ready.

All right. So next up, let's talk about how chat GPT's scheduling works. So there's our called scheduled tasks. And again, I actually did a dedicated show on chat GPT's scheduled tasks. Let me see what one that was because it was actually fairly recent. because they went through some major changes. All right. So this was actually on July 1st, so episode 810.

So I'm going to go over the high levels, high level points for that, but it was actually a pretty in-depth episode. I remember I spent a good amount of time on it. So if you are a heavy chat, you can use it like a lot of people are, make sure you go check out episode 810. But here's the gist. So tasks now support more agentic app actions. And that's the great thing.

They also work inside a private. projects and you can use memory for more personalized automation. That part's huge. So you can access them directly from the sidebar like I talked about before. Or you can go to chatubt.com slash scheduled. And you can just create one by describing what you want chat chabit to do in natural language. Like, you know, you can say scan my Gmail daily at 7 a.m. And tell me what's important.

All right. But there's a lot more to uncover here. because this is where chat chitpity really stands out. So a little kind of hack, you can go through the normal interface to set this up, or like I said, you can set it up conversationally. But what a lot of people don't understand is if you set this up conversationally, you actually have some options that you don't have if you were to set it up in your normal scheduling routine. That's because, and I'm kind of looking on my other screen right now,

So if you go into the scheduled section, you're going to see it's going to look like a fairly, a fairly normal prompt box inside of chat. ChbT, except there's one or two things missing. And the big thing here is the model selector. So, yeah, it's, I believe what happens in the scheduled task, it just is going to default to the last model you use, which may or may not be a good thing. So I recommend just doing scheduling a task via natural language in the main kind of new chat box and just say schedule this at this time and chat. ChagipT smart enough where it's going to do that.

The main benefit there is, well, you can choose the exact model you want. So maybe you want to use, you know, GPT 5, 6 sole extra high, right? At least you have the ability to configure the exact level of. of reasoning that you need for something. Because maybe it's a little simpler, right? Maybe it's more of a personalized search and you don't exactly need the most, you know, the smartest model. But if I'm being honest, it's one of those things where unless you're running out of

limits on a Chad ChbT Pro plan, which is pretty much impossible. It's, you might as well just use the most powerful model at this because it's going to be scheduled. It's going to be happening while you sleep. So throw as much juice as you can. at these things. So that's a little tip there with the scheduling tasks inside chat GPT. The other one, a little hack. And for whatever reason, this doesn't always work because maybe it is truly a hack, but if you go into the new work tab inside of chat GPT,

okay, and I know that there's a lot of confusion about this. So I'm not going to dive in too deeply, but essentially there's a new version of the chat GPT desktop, which is called chat. GBT work, which is kind of the same thing as codex. But then if you go to chatjbt.com, you'll see at the top now, there's a new chat in a new work section. So the easiest way to tell the difference because people are like, wait, when I go to chat, gbt.com, do I use chat or do I use work? Well, the simplest way is, well, use chat when you just want to chat or talk to chat

Gapit, but if you want something more like an agent, use work. So the cool thing here, and this is again, I've never seen or heard anyone else doing this. And it doesn't work every single time. But if you get it to work once when scheduling your task, for me, it works over and over. But the cool thing in the work mode, it actually has its own virtual and dedicated computer and browser, which is awesome, right? So if there's anything that you normally have to do that requires a ton of interface

clicking around, right? It could be from a website that you rely on every single day. It could just be a lot of, you know, web searching that you can't just do from reading a static page, right? Because a lot of times when these large language models, you know, quote unquote, use the web, they essentially just scan the code of any given page, which is helpful in most cases. But what if you have to, you know, scroll down to load more? What if you have to, you know, click around a bunch and add filters, right? So think of all the web browsing that you do that maybe you haven't yet handed off. to an agent and there's probably a reason for that.

And this is awesome. So one quick example of something like this. I love Google trends, right? So there's something in Google trends. You go, you could put all these filters on and then you have to scroll down. I like to see like what's trending in big tech in AI. And I realized, well, why am I doing that? Right.

So that's something I went into chat, GPT, clicked the work, did just a natural language. gave it the URL to that, you know, once I put all those filters on the Google trend. And then I said, hey, every day at 9 p.m., go to this URL, scroll down to the bottom, see, you know, use everything that you know about me and the everyday AI audience and see which of these trends that our audience would care the most about. Then go out and research all those trends. Tell me why they're trending, right? Like yesterday, something about the iPhone was trending and I didn't know why, right?

So it's going to go and it's going to, you know, help me stay more in touch with things that matter to me in my career without me having to go through and click and then go out and research. I just wake up and I know. Right. So that's actually something inside of Chad GPD that is very unique to it because, you know, Claude can do that. You know, we're not talking co-pilot. Co-pilot can do that. And obviously, Gemini's schedule of actions can't do that. So big hack there.

Another one that's very unique to Chad GPD is having these open-ended. tasks. So this is something that Obedee, I didn't even really highlight in, I think it was technically late June that this came out. We covered it like the next day. I think it was like July 1st, right? But you can now just say something like,

you know, check my competitor's pricing page and tell me when it changes. You don't have to say check it every Tuesday or at this PM. I don't know how this magic works, but it just does, right? So that's really cool. You can also just give it open ended tasks.

All right. So now I'm showing on my screen how that works. So on the left hand side, you have your scheduled tasks there. Then you can go into the scheduled task. And like I said, you still get, you know, you can use all your connectors, your skills, all of those drop down. But the downside is you don't have that model selector. But you can still create a scheduled task from the scheduled section. Or you can just click a new chat and just.

type it out in natural language, give a time, a frequency, etc. Then you can go in and edit them. So if you, when you do click that scheduled portion, or if you go to chat, gbt.com slash scheduled, you can go in and edit it. So if you do give a prompt in natural language, it's going to turn that into a set of better instructions for the model to follow. But then from there, you can make any edits. So if you remember the kind of old school, uh, GBT,

there, you could just chat with chat GPT and it would turn your chats into a set of custom instructions. Kind of the same thing happens here under the hood. So you can go in and update the end scheduled task. And you can also, there's a drop down menu for when you want it to repeat the frequency, the time and an end date. All right. Let's keep going and talk about clods.

So clods are powerful, but a little confusing. Okay. And here's why, because you have your normal scheduled tasks. So again, this is all just Claude on the web. Okay, so I'm not talking, you know, Codex desktop. I'm not talking about, you know, Claude desktop with Claude Code and Claude co-work. I am talking about Claude on the web.

But if you didn't know this, Claude on the web also changed a little bit, just kind of like how Chat Chbita did, how you have chat in work. So now Claude has home in code. All right. So if you go to HODDQBTHAD, also if you go to HOD, home, you can do scheduled tasks that way. So you essentially can do a scheduled task in normal chat or in Claude Co work, even more confusing. So there's technically like three different ways you can set this up. But the other way is a routine. So if you click on the Claude Code button,

you can set up a routine. And I'm going to quickly tell you the difference here in the pros and the cons for for claude's scheduled tasks um that's just the uh it is very much the equivalent of the chat dbt version which is like chat and work right so if you need something that's just more straightforward you know just use the the home uh if you need something that's a little more technically agentic you can click the co-work tab but you can also just like you can in chat tvt you can create a schedule task just conversational with claud or there is a manual uh set up The cool thing about clause is you can work in a project. You can also set an approval level per task because as an example,

if you're giving it send actions for the first time it runs, you might want to approve those. I don't fully understand if you're trying to schedule, right? I kind of scratch my head on this because I'm like, okay, why would you actually want to like manually approve everything if it's on a schedule, right? Like if you have 10 of these things running, overnight. Why would you not

went them auto approved? So I guess in theory, it's a nice feature. I just literally don't know the point of it. But anyways, it's there. Maybe if you just want to run it once in front of you to see how it works, maybe that's what it's there for. Otherwise, it's extremely

counterintuitive to schedule something, but then, oh, it's not going to fully run because you had to approve it. Anyways, you can also choose the model, but you cannot, unfortunately, choose the reasoning level. You can set the frequency.

It doesn't have a custom version like ChadGBT, but you can also use connectors and skills like you can in ChadGBT. But then you have the scheduled routines. And I actually did this. Let me see. This show was a little longer ago. Let me see when I did this. The scheduled routines.

Yeah, this is like all, or unedited, unscripted, at least. So let's see when I did this show. So this was, okay, this was episode 756. This was in April, but these are all still very, very relevant because we went over, this was technically through the scope of Claude desktop, but it kind of worked the exact same. But we talked in depth about the differences between the scheduled tasks and the routine in cloud code. But the difference on the routine, right, is, well, you can actually sync those with your desktop.

So if you set up a Claude Schedule task, it's not going to sync inside Claude desktop. So the only way you can do it is with a Claudecotech routine. And then you have to choose the cloud version. So on Codex, right, on the desktop version, if you're using ChadGBT work to schedule, it'll Wallsing. So why would you use Claude's scheduled routines? And I'll just give you the 30-second version of episode 756. I think they're really, really good.

They're more powerful. And I think a lot of people, especially non-technical people, are going to look at like Claude routines and be like, Claude code and be like, I'm not touching those, right? You're going to say there's enough with skills and all these other things and co-work, right? That's technical enough for me. Cloud routines are super simple. You know, you don't even really have to use cloud code to go in and use cloud routines. The biggest kind of benefit is you can use essentially an API token as a trigger.

So what that means, it's very simple. You can choose that. And I have a screenshot of that later so I can walk through. Oh, I have it right here. So essentially, if you choose that as an option, you're going to get essentially an API token. All right. And then you can go to something like Zapier. And you can use that to essentially connect anything in Zapier and have that be a trigger to start something in a Claude routine, which is really cool.

Right. Because as an example, you know, in chat GPT, they actually used to have this, I believe, in codex. but then they kind of simplified and unified the codex in chat, GBT. They used to be called automation. So now they're just called scheduled tasks. Anyways, this used to be available in codex. I don't believe it is anymore, but this is great in Claude routines. So as an example, you can set anything that happens in Zapier as a trigger to start a routine inside of Claude code.

Again, you don't have to be super technical. you can literally just give it to Claude and be like, walk me through this. Right. But that's super valuable because otherwise, every other thing has to start at a certain time. Right. So maybe, I don't know, you have a super, you know, highly valuable form on your company's website, right? When someone comes in, it's a potential million dollar client. And you want to be able to start doing some legwork right away when it comes in.

Obviously, you can't do a schedule task on that because you have no clue. But in this case, right, you can set this up inside Cloud Code. Takes like 30 seconds. Choose that as an option. You're going to get this key. Then you go into Zapier, you know, whatever it is for using a Google form, jot form, whatever. You know, then you're going to get this key, plug it into Zapier. And then anytime that web form comes in, then that routine is going to start inside of

Claude code once it kind of sends to that API token. So a nice, unique feature there inside the scheduled routines. All right. So that's kind of the gist of it. And I'm going to go through now. And I'm going to share my screen for our live stream audience and podcast audience. You can always go to our website at your everyday AI.com. If you want to see the video version of this, nothing super visual.

And I'll kind of explain what's going on. Right. Or you can always check the show notes. And we do put a link directly to. today's episode. All right. So let's talk about what our test actually was. So this one was simple-ish, right? The downside is because Google Gemini is not good at even using its own connectors like Gmail. I was trying to find something that I thought in theory could be a very, you know, apples to apples comparison and something maybe

realistic. And also, this is something that I wanted to build anyways. So I said, all right, let's just throw a simple schedule prompt and talk about the use case of this. So, you know, I said every day at blank a clock, right? Because I space these out a little bit, but I gave it the same thing. So I said, every day at this time, please put together an interactive, either site or artifact or canvas, because they all call them something different. But this is essentially an interactive visual. And in some, it worked and some it didn't. And I'll show you that. So at every day at a certain time, please put together an interactive visual that shows the current stock prices for these AI stocks. InVIDIA, Alphabet, Microsoft, Broadcom, meta platforms,

Taiwan, semiconductor, micron technologies, AMD, Oracle, Palantir. Also, please include an up-to-date factual bullet point recap for each that explains the biggest news for each of these companies. So this is something that I don't do it every single day, but I probably every single day end up checking at least two to three of these companies in terms of what's happening with their stock. Not because I have stock in all of them and I'm tracking it from a portfolio perspective, but from an AI news perspective, a lot of times a company's stock will shoot up five percent or drop 5%, which is very rare. And a lot of times it has to do with something that's happening in AI.

As an example, you know, Alphabet slash, you know, the parent company of Google announced a major AI leadership change, you know, a couple of days ago. And their stock dropped like 5%, which for a multi-trillion dollar market cap company is an insane amount of money. Right. So sometimes I just want to be able to see at a glance what's happening with all these big AI. companies and you know essentially if I see a three percent up or down that's kind of my threshold then I know that something meaningful is happening probably in AI around news so this is something I kind of wanted to build for myself but the thing is well it refreshes all the time so that's the good thing with this being a scheduled right this is now technically an agent that's going out and doing

this every single day for me and updating it so I don't have to all right so let's go ahead and look at the results. Let's share my screen here. All right. So Google Gemini first and Google Gemini kind of failed. All right. So what's interesting. So I did say use Canvas mode.

It didn't. So I do believe I could be mistaken, but I do believe when you used to have the scheduled actions here inside of Google Gemini. I thought you used to be able to use some of the other features, specifically the Canvas mode. But in this case, it didn't work.

So that's interesting. It did, however, go out and do the rest. So it actually fired at the correct time. So I did this one at 5.15 p.m. So after the market's closed. So it got the correct prices for Nvidia, and then it gave me the key news. Alphabet, Microsoft, et cetera.

So it did fire at the correct time. It followed instructions. It's, you know, got the correct prices. But it didn't put together a visual that I wanted to use in Canvas vote, right? I could go down here and I could say, right, I'll actually do this just so we can actually just make it at least give Google a Gemini a chance because otherwise I'm just ragging on Gemini this entire time. So I'm going to say, you know, using all this info.

All right. So, yeah, unfortunately, I'm going to have to put together a two-step one on this. So this is where I also wanted to, you know, test out and say, hey, what other features are available when you're scheduling a task? Because sometimes features or modes make all the difference. It's the difference between, you know, using your data and not using your data, right? Like, spoiler alert, one of the reasons I'll, I've never. really used Google Gemini's scheduled tasks is because they don't use your connected data, right? So it's like for me, it's not super useful. And in this case, it wasn't able to use the

mode for Canvas. All right. Next, let's go ahead and take a look. Let's take a look at Claude. So same thing. I did tell it to use an artifact. It, however, didn't. So it just wrote some strict HTML, but I don't know. I'm not going to say it's a failure because it looks good enough, right? It actually put together a very clean, you know, it says AI stocks daily. It's interactive, right? It has a light mode, a dark mode. It gave me very clear ticker symbols, the percentage that they're up and down on the day, right? Like here I see Google is down 3%. So I can click there and see what happened. Right. So it said, you know, Tuesday it fell, uh, you know, three point eight percent amid a rotation of high valuation

mega cap tech. It says investors remain uneasy about AI spending, right, as their cap X guidance was about 200 billion. Uh, and their cap X was up 100% year over year. So this for me, this is all really helpful stuff to read. Right. So when I'm talking about AI things, I, you know, can ground it in a little more recent data. There's also this button that it says, you know, expand all news, collapse all news, which is really nice. So it didn't technically make it like a shareable artifact. But overall, you know, it did pretty good.

So Gemini, you know, probably failure. You know, Claude got a passing grade, but not ideal. But let's take a look at. at chat GBT. So my gosh, this one's good. All right. So yeah, if, if you're not looking at the live stream here, this is one of those ones where, you know, sometimes I'm like, oh, yeah, it's cool.

This one's really good. This one's really good. All right. For a zero shot prompt, right, I read it to you super simple. Did a fantastic job. So I used chat chpdd sites, which by the way is a freaking cheat code. Like, if you're. not using chat chadipt sites it is in chat chadipit now it used to only be available um inside of uh codex

it used to only be available for team plans now it's available even on the web and it's available on individual paid plans as well if you're not using chat tvt sites i'm just saying this you're literally missing out i make them all the time right i have custom skills uh to make a lot of them and kind of a templated way that really worked for me uh i send them to my wife, right? Because you can make them public. Anyways, let's take a look at what chat TVD sites did. First of all, visually, fantastic, right? It gave me this breakdown, you know, it says four of the 10 advanced, six of the 10 declined. It gave me what's called an AI basket pulse, which is pretty cool. So it said overall it was down 0.6% across 10 companies.

So I can see overall, you know, how are these things moving? Give me the winners, the losers, I can click on the biggest moves, the winners first. I can create a watch list, which is pretty cool, right? I can toggle this little star on and off. And then when I click on any of these, it then brings all of the news that mattered. So let's find another, we already talked about Google. No, actually, let's click Google and see if it gave me similar reasons that Google was down and was 4%.

So it says Alphabet reported Q2 revenue of 120 bills. billion up 24% year over year. Search and other revenue rose 17%. Google Cloud revenue grew 82%. It backlog reached $514 billion with management attributing the acceleration to AI infrastructure and AI solutions. So I will say this. It pulled some older news, right?

So if I were to redo this, obviously the Chad GPT one did the best. But it pulled in some older news. I don't know if the Google one, didn't give me the date of the news, but I'm guessing this news was maybe a little more recent. I'm not sure. But from a visual UI, UX perspective, it's just much better, right? I'm actually going to go through and, you know, probably make one or two changes in this and, you know, make it mobile optimize. And the good thing is, is then all I do, you know, on my phone, I can essentially save this as an app.

And then, you know, I can save it to my home screen, you know, and every day when I open it, it's going to reload and bring up the freshest information. So, yeah, overall, I think they all had their own strengths, right? Let's take a look going back over. Sure enough, we had another error. Another error in Google Gemini. That's fine. I really try to give Gemini in Canvas mode, which I've always. always love their canvas mode. I think it's really good. There we go. So now it's working.

Is it? Okay. Interesting. So when a completely different direction, give me kind of bar charts, you know, prices, quarter two growth, cap X. So, you know, it actually looks nice, some nice features and functionalities, not exactly what I was expecting. But then, okay, when I scroll down, I think it does a pretty good job. Let's read Google. So it says, executive recap summary. Although the Google, it's not right, right? Because it says it's up 1%

almost 1% for the day, which I don't believe it was. Right now I have to double check to make sure. Yeah, Google was down almost 4%. So Google was wrong about the actual day. So that kind of ruins it. So I'm not even going to look at the rest

because if you get the first, facts wrong, right? You always got to, you always got to check these things, right? But yeah, Google was actually down, you know, three point, you know, roughly seven percent, which the other models got correct. And Google unfortunately got it wrong. So even though, you know, it did finish the dashboard with multiple prompts and get a fail, Google. We get a fail. All right. So let's wrap up here and talk about my takeaways. So overall, Gemini, not useful at all. It struggles using its own connectors. Essentially, the only thing that it's really useful for is to customize web search for you. But even like you saw here when in my, again, my one example, it pulled in incorrect information.

So I haven't used Googles, right? Aside from when I test these things, I haven't used Google's scheduled actions. I hope they improve them. We'll see when we get a, whether it's a Gemini 3-7 Pro, Gemini 3-5 Pro, Gemini 4-Pro, whatever. Hopefully they bring some updates to the Gemini web platform. They did go through a UI-U-X update. So hopefully these scheduled actions get some love as well. But overall, I'm not using them. And I would say you probably shouldn't either unless Gemini is literally the only

thing that you can use at work. And the only thing you really need is like a customized Google search. Because otherwise really not useful. All right. My main Chad Chb-T takeaway is it's really good. There's a lot of unique benefits like the anytime scheduling, right? Just, hey, go check when this happens and it somehow figures it out without you having to schedule it. Using work mode with the virtual computer and browser is really good.

The custom schedule, the others don't have. Like if you say like every other Tuesday, right, you can't do that in Claude or in Gemini. Having an end date is a unique feature as well. and Chachyptee because maybe as an example, you want to run it every single day for two weeks, but then you don't want it to keep running and clog up your feet. It's great. I think Chachapiti, their scheduled tasks more than any others, are great at contextualizing your history or contextualizing your schedule task in your data in history.

Right. I forgot the technical update for Chachypti's memory. I think it's called like Dream V3 or something. It is so much better. so much better than, you know, anyone else out there. It's not even close. I, again, don't know how Open AI does it. But that actually really comes into play.

When you're scheduling these things, right, especially when they're of high value, you want to be able to bring in all of that other context in history from everything that Chad GPT or Claude knows about you. So unfortunately, right, like if you're doing the Claude routine, which is really helpful, quad routine has no clue. what you've been doing in Claude chat or in Claude Co-work.

So you can't wrap it in that extremely important business context. All right, chat GPT, you can also use your connectors and plugins and skills, which is really cool. And then, like I said, being able to tap into the full power of chat chad-chapit. So both in the reasoning levels is extremely important and helpful or being able to use the sites feature, right, having that sites feature that just updates all the time. Amazing. All right. So now let's talk about Claude, the home. or the chat scheduling takeaway.

So more straightforward, but it works, right? Unlike Google, you can use all your connectors, which is good, being able to set the permissions, even though I don't fully understand that. If you want to run it once as a test, maybe that's helpful. Overall, straightforward, nothing. You know, there's no standout features in the kind of home or co-work scheduling, but there is in the other version in the routines. So in the routines, there's a lot of.

of, you know, I already went over the, um, kind of the two, well, two unique features. I didn't mention the other one. The one is being able to kind of have that API token, um, and have that act as a trigger, which is very unique in terms of what you can do to schedule right now inside of Claude Code routines. Like I said, don't be scared of Claude code code. You don't even have to use anything else in Claude code, uh, right? You can just think of it like a normal chat, but you can kick off, um, a routine based on

Literally anything that happens on the web, just go on Zapier, you know, take that API token and say anything that happens in the 6,000 platforms that Zapier connects with, send it to this API token. And then you can kick off any routine, a great, a great use case and something unique for all of the others when it comes to scheduling your work. And then the other one, which is a small one, inside Claude, Claude Code routines. You can also set routine level messaging alert. which sounds like, okay, why does it matter?

You know, in Chad GBT and Gemini, you can set notifications for all of them, but not at the individual level. So one of the reasons why that's helpful, right, is you can as an example for a certain routine that runs, you can send a Slack message, you know, which is pretty helpful. All right. So like I said, there's pros and there's cons. I think overall, Chad GBT is the winner with a close second to the routines scheduling of Claude.

I wish Claude would just be able to unify those somehow and bring some of those better features in routines into their schedule tasks. But hey, if you split it up, you can still get the power. But yeah, unfortunately, it doesn't kind of have that cohesive memory, which I think is so important to wrap your schedule tasks up in. Otherwise, you may spend more time going back and adjusting them and making them better anyways. All right.

So what should you schedule as we wrap here? Well, I would ask codex or chat, GBT, work. first, right? Unfortunately, Claude code doesn't have cross chat or cross cowork code memory, but unless it commits something to memory, but I would go through and spend time seeing what you actually do manually inside of these platforms. From there, find those repetitive tasks. That's what you should be scheduling. The other thing, kind of a little hack here is look at your browser history or give it to an agent and see what your most viewed websites are and then tie those websites.

to a deliverable and then schedule a task for that. Right. The biggest thing is being able to do these things that are time intensive, whether it's research for the Chad GPT work hack that I told you, clicking around on a bunch of websites, right? See where you're spending your most time either manually pushing the buttons in Gemini, in Chad GPT, in Claude, turn those into schedule tasks or just where are you spending a lot of your time on the internet?

The internet's a wasteful place. Don't spend time there. All right. And then last but not least, the other one. is start with a simple triage dashboard, right? That's updated every single day. It's obviously only going to work in Chad, JBT, BT, and Claude. But, you know, bringing in your, you know, connectors for mail, calendar, Slack,

teams, your CRM, your major KPIs, your most use connectors, MCPs, etc. Being able to automatically have an agent go through, pull all the most important things and essentially have a start here dashboard, right? It's a very, you know, simple use case. Maybe that's the 2026 version of like the 2024, you know, improve this email, right? Probably in 2026. It's essentially having a custom dashboard and triaging everything and telling you where to start. But if you are newer to the game and you haven't already done that, I think that's a great place to start with a scheduled task or action.

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