Tery Emilson

Tery Emilson

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Founder, MyHandler.AI
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I've been writing software since I got my first Tandy Color computer (16k!) back in 1981. Eventually I built my first sales-and-inventory system in dBase to run my own distribution company — then sold that company. I started the first cellular store in eastern Saskatchewan in Canada and sold that too. Along the way I built abcDB, a mobile PocketPC database that ended up used in more than 110 countries, was localized into Spanish and Japanese, and that got me invited to Microsoft's headquarters in 2004 as one of a handful of developers worldwide. Since then I've spent fifteen-plus years as a full-stack developer — CRM systems running more than a dozen dealerships, e-commerce platforms serving customers across North America.

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22d ago

Would you let AI send your emails without seeing them first?

Genuine question, not rhetorical.

Every AI writing tool is drifting toward autonomy ... read the thread, draft the reply, send it, tell you afterwards. The demos are genuinely impressive.

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22d ago

It composes but cannot send. On purpose.

So many tools in this category are racing toward autonomy. Read the inbox, write the reply, send it, tell you afterwards. The pitch is always fewer decisions for you.

I went the other way.

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26d ago

Short replies are harder than long documents, and the tooling is backwards

I've spent the last year building writing tools, and the thing that surprised me most is where the difficulty actually sits.

Long-form is easy for a model. You give it a topic and it fills a page. Nobody's day is blocked waiting on a page.

The two-line reply is the hard one. To get it right you need to know what you're replying to, what was said three messages ago, what you already promised this person, and how blunt you're allowed to be with them. That context is scattered across a thread, a file, an old email, and your memory. So the ninety-second reply takes six minutes, and you do that forty times a day.

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