Nov. 8, 2026
Milkdo: the grocery bot Yrenia and I keep fixing
Yrenia and I use a Telegram bot called Milkdo to maintain our Todoist grocery list. We can send a message or a voice note in our group instead of opening Todoist to enter each item. It’s a small tool we actually use, and we keep fixing the parts that annoy us.
I first had a go at this myself in 2024, cobbling the code together by hand with some help from GitHub Copilot autocomplete. Much later, I brought it forward with OpenAI Codex doing substantial refactoring, bug investigation, implementation and tests under my direction. Codex also helped draft this post. This is a codebase that went from lightly AI-assisted to heavily agent-refactored over more than two years of use and maintenance.
I don’t think of Milkdo as a “claw.” It’s our grocery bot, with a specific list and a small set of operations. The point is to make maintaining that list less annoying for the two of us.
My first attempt, back in 2024
The first commit was on May 8, 2024. The codebase started as Dialoh, a bot for conversations with Ukrainian-speaking friends. I wanted to deploy it on Cloudflare and use its serverless services with Telegram. On May 9 I was working through webhooks, voice messages and transcription; by May 12, there was a working Durable Object integration to keep conversation history.