My Text Expander Has a Desk: outsourcing Espanso config upkeep to an AI
bfrench · x · 2026-09-07
A personal essay on managing Espanso, a local text expander: the author used to hunt for its YAML snippets like a spare house key, and now simply texts an AI "clerk" that keeps and updates the config. The piece makes the case for owning local, self-hosted automation conventions while offloading fragmented maintenance work to an AI agent.
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