Muse beat OpenClaw and Codex on design
The speaker demonstrates Muse, Meta's AI agent, successfully generating a one-page PDF newsletter for family schedules and news that surpasses designs from competing AI tools like OpenClaw and Codex. After connecting to email and allowing the AI to ingest personal family information, Muse produced superior design and content quality for the requested morning brief.
Summary
The speaker discusses Muse, an AI agent from Meta designed to accomplish tasks autonomously. They explain that they have been printing daily morning briefs since OpenClaw's release, but Muse marked the first time they received a design they genuinely liked on the first attempt. The speaker describes their specific request: a one-page PDF agenda formatted like a newsletter for printing and displaying on the kitchen table.
The requested document needed to include multiple elements: a week's schedule, personalized call-outs and highlights for each child directed at parents, recent news, recent events happening in San Francisco, and weather information. To accomplish this, Muse requested permission to connect to the speaker's email address, then ingested relevant information about the family from their email contents.
After confirming the accuracy of the information Muse had gathered, the speaker authorized it to build the PDF newsletter. The result satisfied both content and design requirements, with the speaker noting that Muse's output was notably superior to what other AI tools like Grok and OpenClaw had previously produced for this use case.
About this episode
The morning newsletter PDF was a genuine one-shot design. That's the bar for what personal agents should actually do. Watch the full episode on How I AI. #howiai #metamuse #muse #museagent
Key Insights
- Muse successfully generated a one-shot design for a family PDF newsletter that the speaker preferred over outputs from OpenClaw and Grok, marking the first time they were satisfied with the design quality from an AI agent
- Muse was able to ingest personal family information from the user's email to personalize the newsletter content, and the user verified the accuracy of this ingested information before authorizing the final PDF build
- The speaker assessed that Muse's combined performance on both content and design was notably superior to competing AI tools like Grok and OpenClaw for this specific household planning use case
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Transcript
[0:00] Muse is from Meta and they're positioning it as your personal AI agent that gets things done. And it gave me this beautiful thing. We have been making these since Open Claw came out. And this is the first one that has been one shot in a design I actually like. Every morning we print out a morning brief with a schedule for the kids, what the kids need to know, what we need to know, and then news for the day. I prompted it, what I really want is a PDF agenda for tomorrow morning, kind of like a newsletter one page style that I can print out and put on the kitchen table. I want it to…
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