Hi, I wanted to share the first automation I built with Claude Code and VS Code. After my parents’ heart surgery, the number of doctor appointments, medications, and admin tasks became overwhelming. I built this to help them stay organised. Have a look. The explanation is in the image below. Runs in real time/ cat personality language through Telegram. The bot works, but it’s been a real learning experience. It kept running into memory issues. I’d fix one thing, then another would appear. Recently, instead of patching problems one by one, I had Claude review the entire codebase and optimise it properly. It’s now a working project running through Claude Code, VS Code, and Railway. I’ve asked a few friends whether they’d find something like this useful, and the answer has always been yes. What I’ve realised, though, is that building and tailoring these kinds of automations takes a lot of time. My takeaway: the people who benefit most from custom AI systems will likely be businesses or clients with budgets that match the time it takes to build them. That said, I’m grateful to have learned the skills to build tools like this for myself and my family. #AISOS