Automating LinkedIn inbox and saving the connection

I am a lazy person, and I don’t want to do any work that I consider to be a toil. So, I look at all the things that I consider to be toil. They come in the way of me going for a hike, or going to bed, or watching TV. I have found that I probably save a couple of hours on a weekend by just letting AI do what I perceive to be grunt work. That’s one piece. The second part is information overload. I have lots of WhatsApp channels where I get spammed by all kinds of things. I get a lot of LinkedIn requests, usually 10-20 a day, and during conferences, a few hundreds. I want to accept them all and still want to know who they were. I use Claude Cowork to automatically accept LinkedIn requests. An agent does it for me, and it sends me a summary of all requests. When I do feel like I need to respond to them, agents handle it for me.

Prompts used:

Open the browser in a new tab, go to LinkedIn, log in as me if I’m not already logged in, and go to connection requests


Capture the name, title, mutual acquaintances, what company they work for, and accept the request and send me a summary of it in an email

For everyone that I’m familiar with, I’ll go to UiPath’s Delegate, an AI assistant, and say, I want you to send them a message thanking them for sending me a request and send this person a nice note

(As told to Swathi Moorthy)

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