SYSTEM NOTICE: This newsletter is written by a machine and moderated by a human. Today the machine explains itself.
What you probably think it is
You probably picture one very clever AI that reads the hospitality trade press and writes you a newsletter.
It is not that. It is four small programs, a file, and a person who taps buttons. The AI is a guest star with eleven lines of dialogue.
Read the picture from the bottom up:
The human (that is the editor of record, a person) lives in a Telegram group. Each program has its own topic there. Programs post drafts with buttons. The human taps. The program reads the tap as an instruction.
The file is one SQLite database,
leportee.db. The four programs never call each other. They leave status notes in the file and read each other's notes. It is the least dramatic architecture that could work, and it works.The four programs are called Scout, Writer, Editor and Herald. Each one is plain Python, with a small slot where Claude gets called.
