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Developer builds AI email assistant prioritizing rules over models

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A developer created an AI email assistant that prioritizes rule-based sorting before employing language models for more complex tasks. The assistant, named ai-email-assistant, uses Claude Haiku for initial sorting and a stronger model if needed, with all actions validated by plain code before execution. The system is designed with safety in mind, defaulting to a dry run and ensuring that no emails are sent, forwarded, or permanently deleted without user intervention, with the ability to undo label changes. AI

IMPACT Offers a novel approach to email management by prioritizing rule-based automation before AI model intervention.

RANK_REASON This is a description of a custom-built tool, not a release from a major AI lab or a significant industry event.

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Developer builds AI email assistant prioritizing rules over models

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Every working day starts the same way: too much mail. CI failures, GitHub notifications, invitations, newsletters I signed up for years ago. And somewhere in th

    Every working day starts the same way: too much mail. CI failures, GitHub notifications, invitations, newsletters I signed up for years ago. And somewhere in the middle, the two or three emails that matter, like "can you approve this by Thursday?". That's usually the one I miss. …

    LINKS blog.mornati.net/drowning-in-email-ai-ema… github.com/…/ai-email-assistant

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