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A live blog aggregator pulling posts from Dev.to, AWS Community Builders, Bravo LT and RedMonk, built and deployed in a single day.
Blog aggregator in one day
Claude Code built and deployed a Vue 3 blog aggregation site from a year-old requirements document, rewritten as a focused prompt.
The tool flagged abnormal values and gave general health insights, built in about five minutes from a single prompt.
Blood test PDFs to dashboard
Claude took several unstructured blood test PDFs exported from MyChart and built an interactive browser tool to explore the results over time.
Ethan Mollick received a finished Gatsby lesson plan spreadsheet for high schoolers with no obvious errors, after delegating and walking away.
Gatsby lesson plan spreadsheet
Claude with Computer Use downloaded The Great Gatsby, researched lesson plans and standards, and filled a spreadsheet on its own.
A live MVP website for the podcast and newsletter went up after about 10 hours of struggling to load it on a custom URL.
Podcast website built with Replit
The author used Replit to generate a clickable website prototype for their podcast and newsletter, then finished the MVP with help from Val Town.
Within one night Devin produced a working unanswered-emails interface using the Gmail API, after the author wrote the authentication code themselves.
Unanswered email tracker with Devin
Devin wrote a Gmail function to find emails needing a reply, built a front end, tested it locally, and deployed it to a public link.
The app went live on a custom domain, dashdiary.co.uk, for a total build cost of $35.82 plus a few dollars for the domain.
Road safety reporting web app
Replit Agent built a full web app where the public reports bad driving, including a Postgres database, image uploads, Firebase login, and a landing page.
It created the text file as asked, but after clicking a result it took a screenshot too early and hallucinated the answer.
Restaurant search with computer use
Claude's computer-use agent searched Google for vegetarian restaurants near Bond Street and saved results to a notepad file on a remote machine.
Claude opened MakeMyTrip, cleared a sign-in popup after a second prompt, and began filling the search fields; no finished booking is shown.
Flight booking with computer use
Claude's computer use, running in a Docker container, opened Firefox and tried to book a New Delhi to Mumbai flight on MakeMyTrip.
The author shipped a working summariser targeting a cut from 2-3 weekly hours of newsletter reading to 30 minutes.
Newsletter summariser app
Replit Agent built a Gmail newsletter summariser for a low-coder, with batch summaries, deduplication, archiving and export, over three days.
Operator returned the requested list of courses, fees and descriptions without further input, saving the author a few minutes of manual admin work.
Compiling a course list
OpenAI's Operator browsed the author's online course site and compiled a list of courses with fees and descriptions while they got coffee.
Operator handled tour search and lesson plan but was slow; adding three grocery items took 15 minutes and an Uber price check took five.
Hands-on Operator test
Casey Newton tested OpenAI's Operator on walking tours, a Gatsby lesson plan, Instacart groceries, and an Uber price check.
The draft was usable but weaker than accepted NSF summaries; thinking mode helped, though it began hallucinating and misreading the sources.
NSF project summary drafting
The author used Cursor in Agent mode with Claude 3.7 Sonnet and two rules files to draft an NSF Project Summary from two papers.
Small scoped fixes took about five minutes to test and merge versus roughly an hour by hand; the full-stack task failed and was rewritten.
One month testing Devin
Devin was connected to the RunLLM GitHub repo and given small bug fixes and one larger full-stack task over a month.
Operator collected data for about 25 of 100 schools before the author stopped it; o1 then built a working chart dashboard from that data.
School financials from ProPublica
Operator searched ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer for independent schools and logged their financial data into a Google Sheet; o1 then built a dashboard.
Both tasks failed. The concert search returned three wrong concerts after 33 minutes, and the Anki competitor list had incorrect data.
Operator concert and product research
Operator, OpenAI's browser agent, was tried on finding Berlin classical concerts and researching Anki competitors, using prompts and screen recordings.
After 2-3 review rounds the PR was production-ready and merged. The task took about 1 hour versus roughly 15 minutes coding it alone.
Third-party token API endpoint
Devin AI planned and built a backend API endpoint for generating third-party user access tokens, then opened a GitHub pull request.
Operator completed the restaurant search and booked the reservation, but a keto meal plan and a quilt pattern search came back weak.
Operator concert restaurant booking
Operator, tested by a member of Allie Miller's team, found a gluten-free restaurant near a Minneapolis concert venue and made a reservation.
Cursor drafted an article on their reading trends in their style, citing Kindle highlights from the vault. The author edited it by hand.
Blog drafts from Obsidian notes
The author set Cursor to imitate their note.com writing style and read their Obsidian vault, then had it draft blog articles quoting past reading highlights.
The extension was accepted and published on the Chrome Web Store, and the author says it solves their own habit of looking down at notes.
Teleprompter Chrome extension published
Replit Agent built a floating teleprompter overlay extension for browser video meetings, refined with Claude and ChatGPT.
Manus built, tested, and published a multi-page website to a temporary server in under 10 minutes, which the author could not have built themselves.
Marketing plan and website build
Manus created a marketing plan with audience personas and HubSpot workflow steps for the author's company, then built a multi-page website from that plan.
It produced a 30-journalist list, a tiered NYC apartment list in under half an hour, and only five solid nominees out of fifty requested.
Manus tested on research tasks
Manus researched China tech reporters, NYC two-bedroom listings, and Innovators Under 35 candidates for an MIT Technology Review reporter, who steered it with feedback.
From one short prompt, Manus produced a publishable-style report with charts from 1,000 synthetic responses. The data is made up.
Synthetic AGI attitudes survey study
Manus planned a survey study on student attitudes to AGI, wrote a Google Apps Script for the form, simulated 1,000 students, and analyzed the data.
It returned duplicate and months-old tweets, summarized one news source, copied a single listicle, and stopped to ask permission mid-task. The author says productivity dropped.
Operator review: tweets, news, builders
The author spent $200 on ChatGPT Operator and tested it on tweet analysis, AI news summaries, website builder pricing lists, and article summaries.
Provisioning worked after two fixes. The MCP hid the real errors, so apply ran through Cursor's Run tool, which suggested the fix.
Terraform via MCP in Cursor
The author used Cursor with the tfmcp MCP server to run terraform init, plan and apply, provisioning a Postgres database, schema and app role locally.
A roughly 3,000-line open-source Canvas tool built in four months. It cut a 45-minute weekly student check to a 2-minute conversation with Claude.
Canvas LMS tool via MCP
Claude Code co-developed a Canvas LMS MCP server with an educator who is not a developer, covering courses, grading, analytics, and student data anonymization.
The author built the agent in under 10 minutes; it delivers a finished newsletter draft by email each Monday at 9am.
Weekly newsletter drafting agent
Lindy AI agent researches weekly AI marketing news, drafts a newsletter plus social content, saves it to Airtable, and emails it every Monday.
Devin found nearly every old term in a docs-wide rename, but the edits still needed 20+ manual commits.
Docs maintenance with Devin
Devin handled a docs team's recurring work: weekly changelog setup, GitHub issue and PR fixes, a multi-file term rename, and code explanations.
The agent finished the page in about 5 minutes; the author reviewed the PR, tested locally, and merged it to production.
Pricing page via background agent
Cursor's background agent built a pricing landing page from a short spec, working on its own branch and opening a pull request.
The author, a non-developer for a decade, built a working end-to-end booking app with artist dashboards in 48 hours. It is not yet launched.
Tattoo booking app prototype
Replit Agent built a booking and payment app for tattoo artists from prompts, covering calendar, Google OAuth, Stripe, and Postmark emails, over one weekend.
Three prompts produced a live interactive course website with modules, quizzes, and videos; the author also reports a 318-page ebook from further prompts.
Interactive course website from prompts
Manus AI built a full AI-business course from one prompt, deployed it as a live website, then added quizzes, games, and embedded videos.
The author says the book came out well enough that they plan to publish it on Amazon.
Beginner programming book draft
Manus wrote a beginner's book on programming with AI from a single request, using the free credits the author got to try it.
The audit found noindex, nofollow meta tags and a blocking robots.txt that hid the site from search engines, plus duplicate H1 tags.
SEO audit of a blog
Claude Code, using the Puppeteer MCP server, audited the author's Nuxt blog starter and wrote its findings into a markdown report.
Twelve demoed workflows, including a KPI model turned into a web app and no-code Jupyter analysis; no time or money figures are given.
Cursor as everyday work agent
The author used Cursor for two months to rename invoice files, send invoice emails, build KPI simulations, and make slides.
It produced a 16-slide, research-backed deck with consistent design, published as a PDF; the author calls it the best AI slide builder they have used.
Strategy deck from one prompt
Manus Slides researched Generative AI 2025 trends from a vague one-line prompt and built a 16-slide consultancy-style PowerPoint deck.
Manus succeeded on 8 of 11 booking engines, three of those with delays, and failed on D Edge, Simple Booking and Travelanium.
Manus tests on hotel booking engines
Manus.ai was prompted to book a September stay at hotels on 11 popular booking engines to test its navigation.
The Agent worked for 14 minutes on the UNESCO task; the author tested it against o3-pro and ran four other work-style tasks.
UNESCO education data spreadsheet
ChatGPT Agent pulled UNESCO student-teacher ratio and teaching staff data and built a multi-tab spreadsheet in a single 14-minute run.
It filled an Instacart cart with about 20 items in five minutes, but missed the gluten-free pizza option.
Comet browser grocery and pizza orders
Perplexity's Comet browser assistant built a charcuterie shopping list, added items to an Instacart cart, and tried to order a gluten-free pizza on Seamless.
The VICE booking took over eight minutes and four tries on the time picker, while the SE Ranking demo booking took 37 seconds.
Booking tests with ChatGPT Agent
ChatGPT Agent was tested on restaurant and software demo bookings, with mixed results across three attempts.
The author built a live podcast site in one weekend that creates companion resources when a show is published; AWS Transcribe cut transcript costs 73%.
Automated podcast website
Replit Agent built and deployed a podcast site that imports episodes from RSS and generates transcripts, tags, and companion content automatically.
Built the 10-restaurant Maps list in 23 minutes and exported 13 Marbella home listings to Excel, with data the author checked as accurate.
Restaurant list and home search
ChatGPT agent picked 10 restaurants in the author's vacation city, found signature dishes, and saved them as a Google Maps list with notes.
It produced a review-ready draft with citations and a gaps synthesis in under ten minutes, versus half a day by hand.
Annotated bibliography on big data
ChatGPT Agent searched academic databases, filtered peer-reviewed open-access papers, and compiled an annotated bibliography on big data in education and healthcare decision-making.
The author says the automated LinkedIn content led to 5 new sales of their Gumroad product.
LinkedIn content creation automation
Perplexity Comet's browser assistant created the author's LinkedIn content, replacing their manual content workflow.
No agent won a game. Gemini 2.5 Pro made the most progress, reaching veteran footman rank in the idle game Progress Knight.
AI agents play free games
Seven AI agents, each with a Linux computer and a group chat, tried to complete as many online games as possible in a week.
A messy one-line note became a 2000-3000 word newsletter plus LinkedIn and Twitter drafts; the post itself says it was generated this way and published.
Newsletter and posts in own voice
The author built a Cursor workflow turning raw notes into a newsletter, LinkedIn posts and tweet threads in their own voice.
One prompt returned a PDF deck and a USP spreadsheet in 18 minutes, with positioning, pricing models and a SWOT section.
Competitor analysis deck and table
ChatGPT Agent mode researched the top 5 UK coffee subscription companies and built a competitor deck plus a spreadsheet of each company's top 5 USPs.
One prompt produced the thumbnail section with accurate colours, layout and button hover states, and it beat the earlier Lovable attempt built from static images.
Figma design to HTML
Cursor, connected to Figma's Dev Mode MCP, turned a selected Figma design into HTML and CSS from one prompt containing the design URL.
A production micro-SaaS went live in about 3 hours, versus an estimated 3 to 4 weeks solo.
Micro-SaaS built and deployed
The author used Replit Agent to build and deploy Calendar Autobot, an app that turns forwarded emails and images into Google Calendar events.
A working, deployed app that shows images, weather, and news for a city, finished in roughly 90 minutes from an empty repo.
City dashboard from blank repo
Devin took a blank GitHub repo and built a City Explorer dashboard with a FastAPI backend and React frontend, then deployed it.
Produced a functional researched presentation with the author's logo and colors, plus a PDF eBook draft; design was plain, so both are drafts.
Presentation and eBook from prompts
ChatGPT Agent researched AI in education and built a branded slide deck, and merged past newsletter posts with approved sources into an eBook draft.
The author migrated 10+ Lambda functions from Node.js 14 to 20 in one pass and fixed a broken docker-compose file by auto-retrying until clean.
Cursor workflows for DevOps
Cursor was used by a DevOps engineer with rules files, MCP plugins, and auto-run commands to refactor configs, debug builds, and migrate infrastructure code.
The agent completed whole Amazon purchases from a wrapper photo and a short instruction, until Amazon blocked agent access.
Buying on Amazon by photo
The author used ChatGPT Agent to buy items on Amazon from a photo of the old item, handling the full purchase.
A five-story AI news brief arrived by email from one prompt; the author says plain LLMs only draft text and cannot send it.
Emailed AI news briefing
Perplexity Comet searched major outlets for the day's AI news, picked the top five stories, and emailed the author a brief.
The agent completed the purchase after the author confirmed it, and Southwest sent a booking confirmation email moments later.
Booking a flight with Comet
Perplexity Comet searched flights, then booked the one the author chose on Southwest.com while logged in, filling fare class and passenger details.
Comet added Reddit threads plus 10 Discover sources to NotebookLM in about 15 minutes unattended, then extracted 67 notes for analysis in 25 minutes.
Newsletter research with Comet
Perplexity Comet loaded NotebookLM with Reddit sources and analyzed Substack note performance for a newsletter author over a week of testing.
It located all three bugs in one shot each, the Verify bug within minutes, saving the author hours of debugging.
Debugging a cryptography implementation
Claude Code debugged a fresh Go implementation of the ML-DSA signature algorithm, finding why Verify rejected valid signatures and two separate Sign bugs.
A playable game with four minigames, persistent high scores, and no external dependencies was built in a couple of hours, with source code on GitHub.
Consulting jargon minigame collection
Alvin Leung used ChatGPT to refine a game concept, then Cursor Agent mode to generate a four-minigame Python tkinter game themed on consulting life.
The author shipped 120 models, an MCP server for Claude Desktop, and 140 chaos tests with a 100% pass rate over 22 months.
Mental models framework built with agents
A solo founder gave Claude, ChatGPT, Windsurf, and Cursor defined roles to build and deploy a 120-model mental models framework.
Atlas returned 11 round-trip combinations with times, airports and prices. Comet gave general statements and pointed to aggregator sites instead of pulling live data.
Flight search comparison, Atlas vs Comet
The author gave ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet the same nonstop SFO to NYC flight search for a wedding trip, with airline and airport preferences.
About 3 hours and roughly $22 produced a live, searchable map of funded companies, versus an estimated 4 to 5 hours by hand.
Interactive map of funded companies
Replit Agent built and hosted a searchable map of funded brick-and-mortar companies on Wefunder from the author's prompts, using the Leaflet map library.
Perplexity Comet completed the task and stopped at the cart. ChatGPT Atlas also reached checkout but was too slow to be usable.
AI browser shopping test
DreamHost tested five AI browsers on one Amazon task: research grinder coffee makers under $100, tabulate five, add two to cart.
In 30 seconds it returned top complaints ranked by frequency, a severity versus frequency matrix, and a user journey map showing where frustration peaks.
App review analysis for PMs
Cursor analyzed a CSV of a couple thousand Walmart App Store reviews and returned takeaways with ASCII diagrams.
After the author added the suggested indexes, page load performance improved significantly in production.
Fixing a slow page with indexes
Cursor's agent listed likely causes of a production-only slowdown, traced NestJS database queries, and recommended which database indexes to add.
About two minutes after the setup worked, a dozen FSA reimbursement claims had been submitted automatically.
FSA claims from Amazon invoices
Claude Code with Playwright MCP read Amazon PDF invoices and filed healthcare FSA reimbursement claims on the benefits portal.
The author came away with a health plan tailored to their genes and current health, built from the combined datasets.
Genetic and bloodwork health plan
Claude Code analyzed the author's 23andMe raw genetic file, bloodwork, artery plaque scans, and supplement routine in a two-hour back and forth about health.
Three weeks without opening a personal laptop; Claude handles trash lookup, a 48-hour daily brief, an inspection booking, and a bakery stop.
Personal assistant via Claude Skills
Claude Code, run through a self-built phone UI, writes skills that handle the author's household errands, a daily brief, and a car inspection booking.
The assistant nudges the couple with date suggestions when too much time has passed. Booking reservations is a possible next step.
Date night planning assistant
Claude Code, set up as an executive assistant, suggests date nights and double dates using the author's calendar and place lists.
Comet generated multiple test payloads for different cases and produced a final report after the full test run.
API endpoint testing in Postman
Perplexity Comet ran API endpoint tests in Postman after development, working from payload context the author supplied.
The author runs 14 containers including Vaultwarden, Immich, Plex, and Readeck, with daily USB and weekly S3 Glacier backups costing about twenty cents per month.
Self-hosted home server setup
Claude Code, installed on a Beelink mini PC over SSH, set up Docker, Caddy, and a set of self-hosted services at home.
Each branded carousel now takes under 5 minutes, down from about 2.5 hours, and the author posts on LinkedIn five times a week.
LinkedIn carousels via Claude Skills
Claude Code, running inside the author's newsletter system with a custom Claude Skill, generates on-brand LinkedIn carousels in the author's voice after three failed approaches.
It filled the grocery cart and produced a Notion recipe page, replacing a routine of 45+ minutes of watching, list-making, and cart-filling.
YouTube recipe to grocery cart
Claude Cowork pulled recipes from a YouTube video, matched ingredients to past-invoice brands, filled a grocery cart, and wrote a Notion meal plan.
Replacing one byte ($88 to $EA, DEY to NOP) kept the lives counter fixed at 3 when tested in an emulator.
Unlimited lives in River Raid
Claude, connected to Ghidra through an MCP server, analyzed an unlabeled Atari 8-bit ROM and found the code that decrements the player's lives.
Best run added 24 of 42 items for £71.76, then stopped early. The author still had to finish the basket and check out.
Weekly ASDA grocery basket
Claude in Chrome (Haiku) tried to fill an ASDA basket from a Claude-built Google Sheet of 40+ items, over five attempts.
The agents wrote over 1 million lines of code across 1,000 files, and a three-week Solid to React migration reached +266K/-193K edits.
Hundreds of agents build a browser
Cursor ran hundreds of concurrent coding agents, split into planners and workers, on one project for close to a week to build a web browser.
The author handled complicated legal and medical insurance forms while feeding their newborn daughter, with Claude doing the filling.
Insurance paperwork from hospital records
Claude Cowork read a folder of hospital record PDFs and filled out the author's insurance paperwork on their insurer's website.
Claudette controls the lights and speaks through Google Home speakers in an ElevenLabs voice, shown in a live demo.
Home Assistant AI agent with persona
OpenClaw, running in a Proxmox LXC beside Home Assistant via ha-mcp, became an always-on agent with persistent markdown memory and a raccoon persona named Claudette.
The author reran their email, CRM, research and drafting tools from Cowork, so the capabilities carried over to a new interface.
Claude Code tools moved to Cowork
Claude Cowork read the author's folder of personal scripts built in Claude Code and loaded them into its memory in eleven steps.
The build took about five hours in one evening and produced 627 passing tests. The author estimates the API cost at roughly $35.
Data analysis agent suite
Claude Code built a six-agent data analysis suite from a 713-line spec the author drafted with another AI.
The initial sort took a few minutes and left no loose files in the main directory, in about 20 minutes of active work.
Downloads folder cleanup
Claude Cowork scanned a Downloads folder of 2,200 loose files, proposed an 11-folder structure, and sorted the files after the author approved the plan.
Across nearly 2,000 sessions and about $20,000 in API costs, the agents produced a 100,000-line compiler that builds Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V.
Parallel agents build a C compiler
A team of 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents wrote a Rust-based C compiler from scratch, coordinating through git locks with no orchestration agent.
The author turned 47 trip receipts into a categorized Excel expense report in 10 minutes, and built a sourced research brief in 2 minutes.
Replacing ChatGPT with Claude Cowork
Claude Cowork replaced ChatGPT for a non-technical author, who used it for slides, long-file triage, Excel files, an expense report, and a research brief.
Produced a five-track album plus EDM and rock songs with visualizations, all from one-shot prompts; a sampling attempt and getting English vocals were weaker.
Claude Code composes original music
Claude Code wrote Python from scratch to synthesize original songs, a rock track with vocals, matching music videos, and a five-track album with cover art.
The author debugged a custom WhatsApp integration hands-free while brushing their teeth, using the voice stack running locally on an M4 Pro.
Hands-free voice for Claude Code
The author built a local speech-to-text and text-to-speech stack with a custom MCP so Claude Code can be driven by voice through AirPods.
The author now has two dense, searchable knowledge bases, one from YouTube videos and one from research papers, which they say speeds up understanding.
Agent-built research knowledge bases
OpenClaw learned to use a YouTube summariser, a paper extraction tool, and QMD, then built searchable Markdown knowledge bases for videos and research papers.
Four features finished in about 2 hours instead of 3-5 days each, and the daily view took 40 minutes.
Parallel feature shipping in Codex
Keith Rumjahn used the OpenAI Codex desktop app with git worktrees and parallel threads to build four features for their Mac app at once.
367 posts and 5 pages were migrated to MDX in one afternoon, about 4 hours, versus an estimated 3-5 days by hand.
WordPress blog to MDX
Claude Code, run as a terminal agent, pulled every post from the author's WordPress REST API and converted them to local MDX files.
The agent triages the inbox, schedules meetings, books flights, pulls Airtable data, scrapes exhibitor lists, and takes notes as a second brain.
Personal assistant agent for daily work
The authors built a personal agent with Claude Cowork or Claude Code, connected through Rube to their email, calendar, Slack, Airtable and other apps.
A working personal agent that sends an 8am brief and updates a vibe-coded Kanban dashboard in real time as it works.
OpenClaw personal agent setup
The author runs OpenClaw on an old MacBook Air, talks to it through Slack, and set up a daily morning brief and a task dashboard.
The author replaced abandoned finance apps and a spreadsheet with a git-synced assistant that tracks portfolio, decisions, and plans.
Personal finance assistant in Markdown
Claude Code, with the Baselight MCP and a CLAUDE.md plus Markdown and YAML files, became a personal finance and investment assistant with no application code.
Codex caught real errors, including a wrong Schedule L field mapping, and the author found their own 2025 mistakes.
S-Corp taxes with two agents
Claude Code wrote Python scripts that compute the author's S-Corp tax forms from QuickBooks and bank data, while Codex reviewed the code.
The author's overdue Q3 2025 German VAT statements were filed in one day, with a recorded video of the submission.
German VAT filing
Claude Cowork prepared quarterly accounts from invoice PDFs, then Claude in Chrome filled and submitted the German VAT forms in Elster.
Pao fixed firewall, root SSH and Docker proxy issues for $0.30, and a basic internal CRM was built for about $25 in one weekend.
VC analyst agent and CRM build
OpenClaw, set up as a VC analyst agent named Pao, audited its own server security and coded a basic CRM.
Over several sessions it produced a phased plan with tax impact analysis, fund swaps, and before-and-after allocation grids, comparable to an advisor's plan.
Portfolio optimization plan from brokerage CSVs
Claude Code parsed the author's brokerage CSVs and notes, then built a phased portfolio optimization plan with tax analysis and fund swaps.
Cognition merged 659 Devin PRs into its own codebase in one week, up from 154 in its best week of 2025.
Devin builds Devin
Devin handles Cognition's own engineering work across Slack, Linear, and the web app: PRs, code review, bug triage, debugging, and design system audits.
Manus took 10+ minutes and produced text-card slides with one chart; an add-charts edit took 7-8 minutes for three basic charts.
Manus presentation test vs PageOn
Manus 1.6 Lite researched and built an 11-slide deck on AI trends in 2026, then was compared against PageOn.ai on the same prompt.
The author ran 4 to 8 agents in parallel and wrote 300+ feature specs in one project, then ported the system to new repos.
Parallel coding agents with specs
Claude Code agents run in separate tmux windows as planner, worker and PM, driven by numbered Markdown feature specs and six slash commands.
The author got a one-screen dashboard in about 20 minutes, work they estimate would have taken 4 to 6 hours by hand.
Spreadsheet to KPI dashboard
Claude Cowork read a 12-tab marketing tracker, picked key metrics, then built a color-coded KPI dashboard tab inside the live Google Sheet.
Cowork ran the script, fixed an error itself, and returned finished output files with no terminal or manual dependency setup from the author.
Receipt processing in Cowork
Claude Cowork processed a PDF purchasing card receipt, extracting data and producing a cover sheet for the author's TPS report, running its own Python script.
The author turned 20 videos into a browsable knowledge graph of sources and topics in their vault. A citation audit found about 60% strong matches.
YouTube research into Obsidian graph
Claude Code searched YouTube, loaded 20 videos into NotebookLM, asked cited questions, and saved everything to Obsidian as linked notes.
Cognition merged 659 Devin-authored PRs into its own codebase in one week, up from 154 in its best week of 2025.
Devin building Devin
Cognition's team uses Devin across Slack, Linear, web, CLI and API to write, review, triage and debug code in its own codebase.
In the published table, most tasks succeeded in 4 to 15 minutes, with 70% full success, 20% partial and 10% failure.
Manus 15-task agent test
The JustPickAi editorial team gave Manus 15 real-world tasks across research, data, coding and content, then timed and scored each one.
The agent rebuilt readable Go source from the stripped binary, but got some route paths wrong, such as /my-messages instead of /me/messages.
Reverse engineering a Go binary
Cursor, connected to Ghidra through a GhidraMCP server, analyzed a stripped Golang HTTP binary and identified its libraries, API routes, and file structure.
The author's weekly newsletter now gets drafted and queued in Kit from the terminal, after review, without logging into the Kit dashboard.
Newsletter drafts via Kit API
Claude Code runs a custom /newsletter skill that finds recent blog posts, drafts a casual email in the author's voice, and creates a Kit broadcast.
All three tasks finished and went live correctly, including a 324-offset insertion, 18+ link conversions, and no unwanted subscriber emails on edits.
Substack edits and migration
Claude in Chrome edited a published Substack post, migrated a blog post from a portfolio site, and added a note to an older post.
Ryan completed real purchases delivered to his door, replaced his Alexa buying flow, and passed the Amazon challenge on a live podcast demo.
OpenClaw buys from Amazon
OpenClaw agent used the buy-anything skill and Rye's checkout API to find, check out, and order products for Ryan Eade.
Notion now tracks 18 agents and 78 logged runs; separately, an unsubscribe agent cleared 47 vendor mailing lists in two weeks.
Notion control plane for agent fleet
The author built AgentOps, a Notion control plane that tracks, queues, logs, and alerts on their 18 OpenClaw agents.
The author's weekly chart scraping and rank analysis now runs as two scheduled tasks every Tuesday, replacing manual copy-paste and taking a couple of minutes.
Weekly Substack ranking report
Claude in Chrome scrapes the top 250 Substack newsletters from Reletter each week, then Claude Cowork turns the data into a gains and losses report.
The author shipped five projects in about two weeks, with public repos and a finance tracker running nightly on a Raspberry Pi.
Personal apps on a Raspberry Pi
Claude Code built five personal tools for a non-coder, including a multiplayer game, a WhatsApp scheduler, and a finance tracker.
The agent negotiated a $4,200 dealer discount, bringing the car to about $56k, and the buyer never visited a showroom.
Car purchase negotiation
OpenClaw researched Palisade prices, contacted nearby dealers, and played their quotes against each other by email for AJ Stuyvenberg.
Documind extracts invoice data in under four seconds; a 130-invoice demo caught four anomalies, including an $875 duplicate and a 60% vendor price increase.
Invoice processing app on Replit
The author built Documind, an invoice platform, on Replit by prompting Claude, with extraction, anomaly detection, workflows, and plain-English queries.
The organizer was filled in with no errors found on review, and Claude flagged a missed brand-acquisition depreciation deduction the CPA had not filed for.
Tax organizer and return review
Claude in Chrome and Claude Code filled a web-only tax organizer, then Claude Code reviewed last year's return for errors.
A CSV of agent leads with brokerage, phone, email, active listings, addresses and year built landed in Google Drive, and outreach had started.
Real estate agent lead scraping
OpenClaw scraped Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com for agents listing 1965 to 2000 homes in the author's service area.
About 85% of triage was correct, no urgent email was missed in 30 days, and routine inbox processing dropped from 10 minutes to 2.
Email triage and drafting agent
An agent called Donna triaged three email accounts for 30 days, flagged urgent mail on Telegram, and drafted routine replies for approval.
Four months in, the agent remembers over 470 people and 51 agents across 13 platforms, and collaborated on an open source project unnoticed.
Persistent-identity Claude Code agent
The author built Instar, a framework giving Claude Code persistent memory, identity and safety gates, so the agent runs jobs and email on its own.
The agent told the author to stop posting on X and focus on Bluesky. The author followed the advice without having asked for it.
Self-updating social media agent
OpenClaw ran on a schedule across 18 cron jobs, analyzed two weeks of engagement data on X and Bluesky, and rewrote its own strategy file.
By 6:15 AM the task list is current and the calendar has drive-time events. A 45-minute morning routine is replaced, at about $100 a month.
Claude Code chief of staff
Claude Code, with Gmail, Calendar, Todoist and Maps MCP servers, triages email, preps the calendar overnight, and dispatches six parallel agents each morning.
On a dashboard filter task, Claude fixed URL query param handling in three iterations without the author touching the browser.
Local browser testing loop
Claude Code with the Chrome extension builds features, then opens localhost in the author's real Chrome session to test, read console errors, and fix issues.
A full participant briefing on 40 people was ready for review within 5 minutes, replacing an evening of manual LinkedIn clicking.
Conference attendee research briefing
Claude Code researched 40 conference attendees in parallel through Chrome MCP, using the author's LinkedIn login, and compiled everything into one briefing.
A dashboard and chatbot that merge tasks from calendar, mail, Linear, GitHub, Slack and meeting notes into one scored, prioritized view the author uses daily.
Daily planning agent across work tools
The author built Plan My Today, a read-only agent and MCP server that pulls tasks from many work tools and prioritizes them for the day.
A W-9 was filled and verified from plain-text data, and three batch W-9s were produced in about thirty seconds without clicking any fields.
PDF form filling skill
Claude Code fills out PDF forms from supplied data, including batch runs, then the author packaged the workflow as a reusable PDF filler skill.
The agent found and booked a restaurant the author visited, and recommended a book that the author read and liked before a trip to Kerala.
Personal memory from data exports
OpenClaw, fed ChatGPT, Google and Instagram history via context-use, books restaurants and sends daily recommendations.
The author wakes to a dashboard with Gmail drafts, prioritized actions, color-coded deals, and a personal newsletter, across about twenty scheduled tasks each week.
Daily AI chief of staff
Claude Cowork runs scheduled tasks at 5 AM that triage the author's inbox, prep meetings, flag stale deals, and scan policy and literature sources.
Slide building that took an hour now takes a fraction of that, and notes became formatted Word and PDF documents ready to share.
Browser tasks with Claude in Chrome
The author used Claude in Chrome to fill slide templates, structure meeting notes, compile research pages, and draft emails from the page on screen.
In about 90 seconds it returned four posts with view and like counts, plus a suggested angle for each.
X feed research for posts
Claude computer use, sent from the phone via Dispatch, opened Chrome, read the author's logged-in X feed, and picked posts worth writing about.
The agent produced a complete 8D music video with seven locally rendered images timed to the lyric structure.
AI-made 8D music video
Hermes-Agent wrote lyrics, generated music, vocals and stems, made images from the lyrics, and added audio-reactive effects to produce a full music video.
They filter their inbox to emails needing replies, turned 15 homeschool PDFs into interactive narrated courses, and built a family budget dashboard from bank statements.
Non-coder CEO builds with Claude Code
A non-technical CEO used Claude Code over four months to manage their inbox, build dashboards and turn curriculum PDFs into courses.
Claude opened Chess and reported the board state, but never played a game, and half an hour of use drained the five-hour Claude Pro allotment.
Claude computer use on Mac
Claude used its new computer use feature to take over a Mac, open the Chess app, and try to play a game.
All the author's old utilities, such as picture converters and sprite extractors, now compile and run in DOSBox. The main game does not compile yet.
Reviving a 1991 assembly game
Claude Code CLI with Sonnet helped the author recompile their 1991 DOS assembly code using UASM and run it in DOSBox.
The author says it saved 6-8 hours and produced the most organized package they had given their accountant, including a discrepancy checklist.
Bookkeeping and tax prep
Claude Cowork organized the author's tax documents, built a bookkeeping spreadsheet, and prepared a tax summary and an accountant briefing.
Filed a 137-page federal return for $129 in software and $23.90 in tokens versus an $8,000 CPA bill, in about 6 hours.
Complex personal tax return
OpenClaw read years of tax records and entity documents, built a summary, then guided the author through filing a complex return in TurboTax.
Time to diagnose a CI failure fell from 45 minutes to 6, and test flakiness dropped from 8% to 0.8%.
CI failure triage agents
OpenClaw agents watched GitHub Actions failures, classified them, and posted analysis and issues, then grew into test generation, coverage scanning, and self-healing locators.
The author says 200 invoices were processed in four minutes with zero errors, replacing a Friday afternoon and a $300 Upwork job.
Invoice PDFs to spreadsheet
Claude Code scanned 200 mixed-format PDF invoices, extracted client, amount, currency and date, renamed and sorted the files, and exported a summary spreadsheet.
It found multiple remotely exploitable kernel bugs, including an NFS heap overflow undiscovered for 23 years. Five fixes or reports are linked in the post.
Linux kernel vulnerability hunting
Claude Code, run by Nicholas Carlini, scanned every file in the Linux kernel source for security bugs using a simple loop script.
One agent now does the CRM management and customer email drafting that cost about 10 paid hours a week last year.
Nine OpenClaw agents
Claire Vo built nine OpenClaw agents covering sales, business operations, scheduling, family logistics, and kids' education, after starting with a single executive-assistant agent.
Built four tools in three weeks, including a thumbnail analysis of 776 videos that took an afternoon instead of three days.
Four creator tools without coding
Becky, a non-developer, used Claude Code to build four creator tools in three weeks and to rebuild a personal website in under an hour.
The author reports Claude Code operated apps that have no API, completing the Calculator-to-Notepad task and saving result.txt to the Desktop.
Claude Code desktop app control
Claude Code, given permission to control the author's Windows PC, opened Calculator, did a sum, and pasted the result into a saved Notepad file.
The author says weekly admin dropped from about 9 hours to a short morning review on Telegram, with setup taking 47 minutes.
Freelance ops on autopilot
OpenClaw sends a morning PR and Slack briefing, drafts Friday client status emails, and queues follow-up drafts for approval on Telegram.
Gila ordered fresh office groceries through the ChatGPT Instacart app, using the card already on file, with a human approving first.
Office grocery ordering via ChatGPT
An OpenClaw assistant named Gila collects office grocery requests from Slack, then uses ChatGPT's Instacart app to build the cart and post the link back.
A full equity research workflow on Adyen, from data pull to investment memo, was done in under 15 minutes using prompts only.
Adyen equity research in Cowork
Claude Cowork pulled Adyen filings and data, built an Excel model, ran a DCF, wrote an investment memo, and set up a weekly update task.
The agent handles all kinds of tasks for their company, and the author reports no memory problems so far.
Codex agent as company employee
The author built an autonomous agent from Codex, ChatGPT Plus, systemd, and UNIX email and user accounts, and uses it like an employee.
From their phone, the author found lost desktop files, got key emails summarized, and ran Notion and spreadsheet tasks, cutting inbox clutter.
Dispatch phone-to-desktop tasks
A Fortune editor used Claude Dispatch, a Cowork feature linking phone to desktop, for a month to pull files, triage email, and prep meetings.
The author consolidated 4 legacy repos into 2, moved MySQL to PostgreSQL, upgraded the full stack, and wrote full test suites, solo.
Solo product migration setup
Claude Code, configured with layered CLAUDE.md files, memory, and agent teams, planned and carried out a multi-repo product migration for one engineering manager.
In one week the author's Threads posts reached 100K views and gained 200 followers after using the daily digest as a writing reference.
Daily trending posts for content
OpenClaw uses the author's socialcrawl API to send a morning digest of trending posts from X, Threads and LinkedIn, used as references for writing.
Devin built a three-endpoint Express API in about 4 minutes, but chose the wrong pagination style on a real codebase and needed review and refactoring.
Devin one-week coding review
Devin was given a week of real coding tasks, from a simple Express API to pagination, and reviewed on speed and accuracy.
Raghav Mehra cut morning source-checking from 45+ minutes to about 5 minutes of reading a pre-curated briefing.
Daily intelligence briefing to Slack
Claude Cowork runs a scheduled task each morning that searches research pillars, dedupes against a Notion list, and posts a curated 10-story briefing to Slack.
A legacy pipeline with a roughly 40% pass rate lost 20 minutes of runtime and gained 35% pass rate in weeks.
Fixing flaky CI tests overnight
Claude Code monitored 30 days of CI results, found the worst flaky tests, narrowed reproductions, and reran fixes overnight to verify them statistically.
The associate confirmed the refund and the author got $15 back within about five minutes, while the author watched it happen.
Amazon subscription refund
Codex running GPT-5.5 cancelled an Amazon subscription, opened the live chat with an associate, and argued for an immediate refund.
Inspectors confirmed 11 of 14 predicted violations plus 3 more, and the landlord was fined $2,800, per the author.
Tenant complaints to housing board
A Claude Code agent researched building violations and filed 14 staggered 311 complaints with the NYC housing board for the author's apartment.
It reported January ROAS as 14.25x when the real figure was 1.76x, and the author rated it unsafe for ecommerce scaling.
Manus AI Meta ads test
Manus AI, run inside Meta Ads Manager on a live ecommerce client account, was asked to audit a performance drop and plan a fix.
The same task fell from 20 minutes in week one to 12 in week four and 8 by week six, with better competitor patterns surfaced.
Weekly competitive briefing skill
Hermes Agent ran the same Monday competitive monitoring prompt for six weeks and rewrote its own underlying skill four times.
The author designed, printed, and assembled a working four-servo arm in about 30 hours with almost no CAD experience, then added voice and vision control.
Robotic arm designed with Claude Code
Claude Code wrote the FreeCAD Python geometry for a 5-DOF servo arm, which later gained voice and camera control.
Combined lint and typecheck time fell from 29.04s to 1.25s, about 23 times faster, with no memory config needed for typechecking.
Monorepo lint and typecheck migration
Claude Code migrated a 7-app, roughly 1,670-file TypeScript monorepo from Biome and tsc to oxlint, oxfmt and tsgo, fixing code to meet new rules.
About 12 hours produced 46 commits and over 14,000 lines of code across three shipped products.
Three products in one day
Replit Agent rebuilt a full-stack platform, added seven features to a live RAG app, and produced a demo video during a free Agent day.
Codex returned a complete, classified list of missed email threads where Claude missed many; it also deployed a vacation site researched from hotel availability.
Codex email audit and trip site
Codex, driven by two authors, audited a month of missed emails, built a vacation planning site from a phone, and shopped for a dishwasher.
The author shipped a live book-sharing app and its demo video, both made with Replit Agent, during a 24-hour buildathon.
GiveABook book sharing app
Replit Agent built GiveABook, an app where people list books they have read, drop them off, and neighbors pick them up on Sundays.
A working kanban CRM with seven status stages and a 20-advertiser lead spreadsheet, with 3-4 hours of manual work done in 30-45 minutes.
Manus CRM and lead research
Manus built a sponsorship-tracking CRM web app and researched trending YouTube topics and newsletter advertisers for a no-code education business owner.
Hotel comparison, four tax PDFs, and an 18-item cart under $80 worked. Subscription cancellation failed.
Chrome auto browse five-task test
Gemini's Chrome auto browse ran five real tasks for the author: hotel research, tax document downloads, grocery cart building, plumber quote forms, and subscription cancellation.
Test runs approved per day on Devin more than doubled in a couple of months, and engineers run 10 to 20 Devins in parallel.
Devin cloud testing of PRs
Devin writes a test plan, runs the app on a cloud VM with computer use, and returns annotated test videos and reports.
It wrote a 3,000 word document with competitor pain points, 40 named target users, and an outbound playbook.
Agent researches its own competitors
Daemora, a self-hosted agent, searched Reddit, HN, Twitter and review sites unprompted and wrote a competitor analysis and go-to-market plan from one task.
A 500-bullet idea list became researched one-page notes with metadata, and a dog-walk voice dump became a shaped newsletter draft.
Voice notes into Obsidian notes
Hermes, run as an agent named Satori, turns the author's Telegram voice notes into structured Obsidian notes for business ideas and newsletter drafts.
After a debrief on a 6-hour layover, the agent added a 3-hour layover cap and applied it unprompted when re-planning the next trip.
Travel agent that learns from trips
Hermes Agent plans trips using stored traveler preferences, researches flights and hotels by web search, and rewrites its own memory after a post-trip debrief.
Codex returned a ranked comparison of three Belmond properties with availability and nightly rate ranges for a sample window, plus a more detailed Word doc.
Client notes to Belmond shortlist
Codex Desktop read a client notes Word doc, checked Belmond's live booking site, and built a three-option comparison matching the client's past trip preferences.
The author now runs about 80% of their work through Cowork and says the builds saved over 10 hours a week.
Cowork runs most of my work
Claude Cowork handles the author's inbox CRM, content audits, transcript analysis, competitor teardowns and a scheduled trend brief.
Roughly two dozen decks were rebuilt into Quarto reveal.js with speaker notes and refresh checklists, and the approach was reused for two more courses.
Course modernization with agent fleets
Claude Code turned course evaluations into tracked GitHub issues, then ran agents to rebuild assignments, exams and about two dozen slide decks.
Setup took about 6 to 8 hours of active work and cut routine month-end bookkeeping by an estimated 85 to 90 percent.
SaaS accounting automation
Hermes Agent, connected to Zoho Books, Gmail, Aspire Bank, Stripe and Telegram, ran bookkeeping for the author's Singapore SaaS company.
The folder was renamed and deduplicated, the report draft needed only light editing, and the notes became a structured draft with the synthesis done.
Busywork day handed to Cowork
Claude Cowork sorted a 200-file folder, built a weekly metrics report from several sources, and turned messy notes into a structured draft.
The research agent saved the author two to three hours a week; the copywriting agent removed the blank-page first draft.
Marketing agents on OpenClaw
The author built three OpenClaw agents for marketing research, long-form content structure, and copywriting drafts, and relied on them in daily work.
Claude Code produced a playable wave-based game with four enemy types; the creator reached wave 10 on camera and said it matched their vision.
Indie platformer from scratch
A content creator had Claude Code (Opus 4) build a 2D black-and-white platformer called Seek in HTML and JavaScript canvas, with no prior coding experience.
A CRM pipeline check that needed a manual export plus a separate analysis tool now runs end to end, with out-of-compliance entries flagged in Teams.
Scout automates CRM pipeline hygiene
Microsoft Scout, an agent built on OpenClaw, opened a browser, inspected CRM opportunity records, exported a summary to SharePoint, and posted compliance findings to Teams.
Ben Guez reports over one million views and 200 DMs within a few days, with replies routed to his language app.
World Cup reels for app signups
OpenClaw tracked World Cup results and had Claude post a templated Instagram trial reel after each match.
Used across Cursor's 400+ person sales org, it reportedly helps SDRs book 3x more qualified meetings and cuts AE ramp time by over 50%.
Internal sales AI for Cursor reps
Cursor's Head of Enterprise Growth built ChatGTM, an internal chat tool that pulls CRM, call, and web data to draft outreach and research accounts.
Opus found no tear where the doctor reported a Grade III partial-thickness tear. The author is unsure which reading to trust.
MRI second opinion
Claude Code with Opus 4.8 read a DICOM shoulder MRI export, then ran a subagent-based arbitration against the human radiology report.
The author cut time on literature triage and experiment setup, and says related-work sections now need less citation double-checking. No numbers are given.
Research workflow automation with Codex
Codex runs a weekly arXiv search, triages new papers, feeds a Zotero library, and turns hypotheses into cheap experiment tests for an AI safety researcher.
The author says up to 400 signups per live event come from this, and the DMs get a 48% response rate.
Social post to lead outreach
Claude Cowork scrapes commenters on a LinkedIn post, enriches them via Apollo, scores fit against the ideal customer, and drafts DMs for the best leads.
Codex sorted 240 dinner recipes down to 62 family-fit picks, rated them, and produced an index, a spreadsheet, and a Google Drive folder.
Comms tasks with Codex
The author used OpenAI's Codex to build a PR coverage dashboard, sort a messy work folder, and filter a recipe site for picky kids.
The task finished in 19 minutes, with numbers formatted in the spreadsheet and a screenshot trail of every step.
Wallet data into spreadsheet
Claude computer use pulled wallet data and dashboard numbers across the author's desktop, then summarized them in an open spreadsheet.
It reconciled 200 transactions with 11 miscategorized, a 94.5% hit rate; the author's review covered only the 18 flagged rows plus spot-checks.
Monthly bookkeeping reconciliation
Claude Code built a bookkeeping pipeline that pulled a month of transactions over MCP, matched receipts, drafted categories, and flagged uncertain rows.
The author's teen now has their own account on a home-network local model for chat, research and troubleshooting, with no outside provider needed.
Home server chat for teen
A Hermes agent running on a local Qwen3.6-35B model set up an Open WebUI server and handled account management from the author's phone.
A prototype took two evenings and a live game six weeks; after seven weeks it had 164 players, 109 active in one day.
Telegram text RPG shipped
Claude Code wrote every line of Zapaleni, a Slavic folklore text RPG in a Telegram bot, for a project manager who does not code.
The robot navigated, scanned rooms, kept memory notes, and published a patrol field journal, but spent 15 minutes parking at the wrong door.
Claude drives a robot
Claude Code, run from a laptop, controlled a PiCar-X robot with a camera and distance sensor through terminal commands, using photos to navigate.
Claude unsubscribed the author from 21 newsletters in five minutes.
Unsubscribing from unwanted newsletters
Claude Cowork, connected to Gmail, unsubscribed the author from unwanted email newsletters using a custom JavaScript function and can flag re-appearing senders as spam.
The Codex agent resolved the issue in 40 minutes, and the ops agent confirmed the fix in Slack.
Slack issue triage to Codex fix
An internal ops agent triaged a Slack issue, passed it to a Codex agent, and then verified the fix back in Slack.
The operator reports +19.04% versus +12.24% for the S&P 500 from March 3 to August 4, 2026, with $27 million copying the trades.
Claude-assisted stock portfolio
A Claude Code agent on Opus 4.6 researched positions for a $50,000 real-money account under human-set risk rules, aiming to beat the S&P 500.
A 36-second video with multiple camera angles, a visual storyline, and subtitles, made in about five minutes.
36-second video from one image
The author used Grok Imagine's Agent Mode with a single image and a simple prompt to produce a short video with matching scenes and subtitles.
The agent went from spec to live listing in under a week and has settled 20+ real on-chain transactions across four paid services.
BaZi fortune agent on marketplace
The author built a BaZi fortune-telling agent with AI agents doing the coding, then listed it on the OKX AI Marketplace with pay-per-call USDT pricing.
It returned a price table and promotions, noted Aldi and Lidl gaps, and revised the best price per liter to Carrefour's 1,48 euro two-liter.
Belgian supermarket Coca-Cola prices
Grok Bot compared Coca-Cola prices across Belgian supermarket sites, then handed the browser to the author to clear a Carrefour human check.
Three interaction prototypes were built and tried, an email promo animation was tuned live, and 20 starter-bot cards plus a tool-logo layout were populated.
Designing Grok Bot with Grok Bot
Grok Bot agents prototyped three ambient-access concepts, tuned a motion sequence on the real animation asset, and filled Figma onboarding cards from one component.
A working balloon camel simulator with multi-balloon twists and model export, published as the CamelKoons repo, though the look ended up off-target.
Balloon camel simulator
Claude Code built a Go physics simulator with a web frontend that streams balloon-camel geometry, with Claude in Chrome looping on screenshots and camera control.
From one prompt it created a repo, wrote the app and tests, got CI green, provisioned Postgres and deployed behind HTTPS with no further messages.
Self-hosted agentic software factory
The author built a sandboxed home server stack where Hermes with Codex takes one prompt and runs the whole software lifecycle, from repo to deployment.
Claude gave failed builds for a week and used up the 20x Max weekly limit. Sol had worked 20+ hours without success.
VNC client build attempts
The author asked Claude, then ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, to build a bare-bones VNC viewer for Windows 10 that avoids dropped keystrokes.
A test run processed 40 PDFs, created the QuickBooks records, attached the PDFs, and cleaned up automatically, cutting hours to minutes.
QuickBooks vendor invoice automation
Claude Code upgraded the author's existing QuickBooks Online integration to attach original PDFs, self-update the item list, clean up files, and skip duplicate invoices.
Rank'em passed 1000 downloads in a week. The author credits the bots with a 15x lower cost per install and 4x better D7 retention.
Six bots run a mobile game
The author used six Grok Bot agents with separate roles to run analytics, ads, engineering, deploys, and bug fixes for Rank'em.
Within 90 minutes Claude produced a functional proof of concept confirming an authentication bypass across four tested endpoints.
Reverse engineering a papercut zero-day
Claude Code analyzed a patch for an actively exploited Papercut NG vulnerability and worked to build a working exploit chain.
140 emails went out in six hours, 27 replied, 23 asked for a call, and 11 became paying clients worth about $27,410.
Five-bot AI outreach pipeline
The author gave five Grok Bots their own inboxes to find, audit, and email local businesses needing AI implementation, then handle the replies.
The best recorded run scored 39,359, reached 4,924 meters, and hit a combo of 117.
Browser game and PPO player
Grok built the browser game Roofline, then trained a PPO agent that plays the live page.
The author got a playable Mars simulator game for their nephew, built from simple prompts, with a video shown.
Mars simulator game for nephew
Grok Build wrote, tested, and iterated on a Mars simulator game from simple prompts, fixing bugs along the way.
The author says the agent found a 13K medical debt they did not know about and filed a dispute showing insurance had paid it.
Disputing a medical collection bill
A Grok Bot finance agent named Warren found a year-old surgery bill in collections, pulled the insurance EOB, and faxed a dispute.
Call summaries now post to Slack with tags and to-dos, which let the author downgrade their phone plan and save $250.
Home service business ops
Grok Bot was connected to phones, Reddit, Notion, and calendar to summarize calls, spot leads, and plan the week.
The Notion board holds profile images, descriptions, and links for each followed account; the author built it on a phone in 10 to 15 minutes.
Personal CRM from X follows
Grok Bot turned the author's roughly 800 to 900 followed X accounts into a private personal CRM in Notion, using only public profile information.
The author added over 50 capabilities in 15 days, including email triage, daily briefings and a custom MCP server for tasks and invoices.
Hermes as personal operating layer
Hermes Agent grew from a chat interface into an operating layer across the author's work, research, personal organisation and family life over fifteen days.
Each call produced a full transcript and a note on whether the product was available; a test call to the author also worked well.
Phone calls to check store stock
The author's Grok Bot assistant, connected to Bland.ai, phoned local stores to ask whether a specific product was in stock.
Lindy produced a finished Monday staff meeting deck as a web link in 10 to 15 minutes and created a Notion page after approval.
Lindy for recurring ops work
Lindy, connected to Slack, Notion, Gmail and Calendar, analyzed a guide library, built a staff meeting deck, and created a Notion guide idea from Slack.
Chief sweeps six inboxes and Slack hourly and sends only high-signal alerts. TradBot prints a daily family newspaper and coordinates school pickups.
Chief of staff and family bots
Grok Bot runs the author's chief-of-staff bot and a family bot, replacing their OpenClaw agents across email, Slack, calendars, and school mail.
Codex traced the kills to the Linux OOM killer on a 2 GB droplet with no swap, and listed fixes without changing anything.
Find why a process dies
Codex CLI, run on the author's Mac, connected to their Ubuntu server over SSH and checked kernel logs to find why Claude Code kept dying.
Seven bots now handle social posts, morning task lists, invoices, and research, and the author schedules posts from their phone.
Seven-bot Grok team from phone
The author built seven named Grok Bots, each with one job and its own connected apps, running in the cloud.
The fleet manages over 200 cloud agents at once, up from 15 managed by hand, and built Grok Bot iOS v0 in three weeks.
Engineer bots managing cloud agents
A SpaceXSI engineer runs five Grok Bot engineer bots that spin up Cursor cloud agents, review PRs via a Notion database, and auto-merge low-risk changes.
One setup prompt produced five named bots with weekday schedules; the author also found usage limits, a shared-machine security model, and account lock-in risks.
Grok Bot two-week review
The author ran Grok Bot for two weeks and had it build five scheduled specialist bots from one context message about them.
Set up to run daily, it creates calendar entries with a day-before reminder and a link. The author calls the first run not bad.
School homework to calendar
Meta's Muse agent logs into a school information system through a credential vault, collects homework and due dates, and adds them to a child's calendar.
About 1,570 entries posted in Claude Code alone, and Codex caught a VAT return error days before filing.
AI bookkeeping for Swedish companies
Claude Code and Codex kept the books for several Swedish limited companies over ten weeks, handling receipts, VAT, bank matching and posting.
On a payment service v2 to v4 test, it caught an outdated SDK, returned DO NOT SHIP YET, then SAFE TO SHIP in simulation.
Pre-deploy release gatekeeper agent
The author built SHIPCHECK, a ReAct agent that queries a Sanity Content Lake over MCP to check whether a service upgrade is safe before deploy.
Some of the brands replied, and the author then built a web app for them.
Cold outreach to car brands
Manus searched for car brands without a web app, wrote an email, and sent it to them.
Non-test Python fell from 1,063,826 to 698,363 lines (34.4%), gateway/run.py from 34,847 to 5,512 lines, and functions over 300 lines from 192 to 2.
Million-line codebase refactor
Hermes Agent split a million-line Python repo into 36 groups and dispatched 1,393 subagents in git worktrees to refactor it.
The author uses Codex daily for reports, editable designs, video editing and this newsletter, which still needed plenty of corrections.
Substack stats report in Codex
Codex used Computer Use to open the author's Substack dashboard and pull figures for every published post into a newsletter report.
Each model pass added about 1.5x to 2.0x speedup, reaching roughly 7.5x to 32x over baseline; one implementation beat xgboost on speed.
Faster Rust ML code via benchmarks
Coding agents wrote Rust ML algorithms like UMAP from scratch, then iteratively optimized them against criterion benchmarks.
Androidclaw traces broken builds to the relevant pull request and incident, and sometimes prepares and merges fixes itself.
OpenAI build-fix agent on OpenClaw
An OpenAI engineer reports an internal OpenClaw agent, Androidclaw, working across Git, GitHub and logs to trace broken builds back to their causes.
The unfinished output is work the author would have quoted at about €2.5k, built in one overnight run.
Marketing site from Figma
Devin AI connected to a Figma file through MCP and built a WordPress marketing site with easy content management overnight.
Claude found 25 to 30 people with sources; the author emailed about 20, and 7 replied, several with intros and new leads.
Cold outreach list and emails
Claude Code with Chrome access built a sourced target list and drafted personalized cold emails for a niche-program outreach campaign.
The author now writes 40 to 50 pieces a month, up from barely one piece when they started as a beginner.
Web writing workflow with Cowork
Claude Cowork handles keyword research, article planning, drafting, spreadsheet tracking, and rough eye-catching images for a freelance web writer working from local folders.
The author completed a short-notice trip to Munich, skipped a rental car, paid $15 and $5 train fares, and saved hours of planning.
Business trip planning and booking
Grok Bot researched flights, booked one, chose a well-placed hotel, and planned a sightseeing itinerary for a short-notice Munich trip.
Research, site build and restaurant booking worked, but computer use was very slow and the call button failed.
ChatGPT Dots day-one test
Julian Goldie tested OpenAI's new ChatGPT Dots agent on launch day with research, a website build, computer use, and a restaurant booking.
The author launched a store taking real payments in one sitting and ran a test order. Five agents now watch orders and stock.
AI-built online store
Ryan Robinson used Bluehost's AI store builder to generate a retail store for Little River Studios from one product description.
Jamie reported 13 outreach actions and zero live links early on; the author later verified the first live nofollow directory backlink.
Backlink outreach for Promptslove
The author's ChatGPT Dot, Jamie, researched publishers, drafted pitches, sent outreach and form submissions, and tracked results for Promptslove's digital PR campaign.
Cantillon claims Claude found about $700 in savings on the first day, according to the article's headline.
Personal life run by Claude
Claude Code, given access to Molly Cantillon's email, bank accounts and investments, built specialized helpers to handle admin tasks and finances in her daily life.
Each email is tailored to the job description and resume and left ready to send, cutting hours of outreach work to minutes.
Job outreach email drafting
Claude Cowork read an Excel of LinkedIn leads plus the author's resume and drafted a personalized Gmail email for each role.
The author spent only a few minutes of hands-on time; the Bot handled image selection, transitions, lyric effects and motion, and the YouTube upload.
Music video from song and references
Grok Bot made a music video from a song, lyrics, analysis data, existing images and a reference YouTube video, then uploaded it to YouTube.
After a few months of iterations, the author has a working assistant, open sourced so others can have their AI configure it for their needs.
Email calendar scheduling assistant
The author's AI assistant reads forwarded emails in a labeled Gmail inbox, emails recipients to coordinate times, and adds Zoom bridges.
A live game with 87 rules, 33 conditions, 14 spells and 15 monsters in two editions, answering rules questions in about 1.3 to 2.2 seconds.
Rule-citing AI dungeon master game
The author built a browser D&D 5e dungeon crawl whose AI Dungeon Master answers rules questions by looking up and citing rules stored in Sanity.
Users resolved issues by talking to Devin, engineers only merged when needed, and Devin Review caught bugs.
Devin as feedback triage bot
Devin triaged every app feedback and feature request in a dedicated Slack channel, with read-only access for debugging, and let non-technical staff coauthor PRs.
Robert pulls context from calls, helps with approvals, and creates tasks in Multica, backed by shared memory. The non-technical co-founder reportedly gets more done.
Shared team Hermes agent
Hermes Agent spread from the author's own use to their dev, co-founder, and a shared team agent named Robert.
Claude pulled 60 documentation pages into local Markdown files in about 49 seconds, including roughly 10 seconds of backend cold start.
Docs crawler MCP server
Claude used the author's pulpie-mcp server to crawl a documentation site and save every page locally as clean Markdown files.
It cost about two months of Pro subscription over half a working day, and ended up slightly slower than doing the migration by hand.
Password reset migration experiment
Claude Code with Opus migrated a password reset flow in a legacy web app, with the author closely supervising under a pre-made plan.
The orchestrator produced a complete video with clips, music, and effects, shown in a linked video.
Agent-orchestrated AI video
The author's custom agent dimul used Grok through the CLI as an orchestrator, generating clips with Imagine and assembling them into a finished video.
The author booked a hotel through the agent, found it easy, and says it saved them money. No amount is given.
Hotel booking with Grok
The author used Grok Bot to book a hotel, the kind of task agent product demos often feature.
A working personal agent the author reaches by Matrix from phone, home web app, or CLI agents.
Self-hosted Matrix agent assistant
The author had Kimi set up a local Matrix server and write a small custom agent loop with sandboxed tools.
A coconut cloud matcha was ordered by the agent at the first SF tech week event. The author also had ChatGPT sign up for events.
Matcha ordered by agent
The author connected Monid API keys to Claude Cowork, which customized the milk and ordered a coconut cloud matcha at a tech week pop-up.
In five hours the bots sent a newsletter, pulled Apollo visitors to SDRs, and replaced five stalling tasks, saving about an hour daily.
Marketing ops with Grok Bot
Richard Purcell set up a chief-of-staff Grok Bot with specialist bots for HubSpot, Apollo and lead handoff at a FinTech company.
It reported nearly 28GB of RAM used, 22 Python processes and 10GB on iCloud, then asked permission before closing anything.
PC memory check by text
A Grok Bot monitored the author's PC and texted a breakdown of memory use while they were away at lunch.
The agent built a skill that checks the calendar, buys the ticket via its wallet, adds the event, and sends a leave-time message.
Movie ticket booking skill
The author had their Muse agent build a reusable skill that books movie tickets, handling calendar checks, seat choice, purchase, and a reminder to leave.
The author got a working Rust editor, .NET 10 scripting, multi-threaded runtime, culling, weather, lighting, water simulation and hot reloading within minutes.
Game engine from one prompt
Grok Bot ran four bots with one coordinator and built a Unity-style game engine from a single prompt, in minutes.
Over 30 days it checked 3,140 coins, skipped 2,980, raised 160 alerts, and the author made 52 trades for +$9,320.
Memecoin vetting bot team
Grok Bot learned the author's 4-minute memecoin check from one demo, then ran it through a scout, checker, and reporter bot team.
Musk reports that Grok Bot placed a real LEGO order on the LEGO website; no price, delivery, or cost savings are stated.
LEGO order through Grok Bot
Grok Bot bought a LEGO set from the LEGO website after Elon Musk asked it to order one, using a card photo shared in chat.
Db2 support shipped in under two days for a $4172 token bill, versus 9 months and about $160K for Oracle; 27 PRs merged.
Hospital-style agent pipeline ships Db2 support
Cockroach Labs ran a multi-role coding agent pipeline modeled on a teaching hospital to add Db2 support to its MOLT migration tool.
The repo shows sample decks, Word documents, and Excel workbooks, all created by agents with no templates and no manual editing.
Office documents built by agents
AI agents use the OfficeCLI binary to create and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, and check them through HTML or PNG rendering.
It caught a one-day error in the deposit date, then also built a packing list from a two-line factory message and drafted the client email.
Order logging and commission register
Grok Bot logged a sales order from one call, cross-checked the PI, PO and bank slip, and set up a commission register for finance.
It produced all the pages, animated them, and made explainer videos; the author shows the output in an attached video.
Voice-built UI for finance desk
Grok Bot designed the UI/UX for the author's agentic financial desk from voice instructions, using design references it researched.
Codex built a full EDM track and a piano duet from scratch in minutes in Ableton, shown in two demo videos with the prompts listed.
Ableton Live MCP for Codex
The author built an MCP server so Codex can control Ableton Live, including running Python inside Live.
Bought a new KitchenAid dishwasher within days, found a $25 armchair, caught a last-show date night, and published a landing page via Cloudflare.
Household errands with always-on bots
Eleanor Konik used Muse and Grok Bot for library requests, dishwasher shopping, marketplace scans, party planning, grant research, and publishing a landing page.
All three produced a playable multiplayer game with a map list and saved rooms; Opus won on visuals, Gemini on backend, Codex landed in between.
Three agents build multiplayer Counter Strike
The Instant team gave Codex, Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro the same prompts to build a 3D multiplayer Counter Strike clone.
A 6:49 narrated video with subtitles, an annotated PGN, and a standalone HTML analysis board for one real lichess game, all included in the repo.
Chess game post-mortem video
Claude Code skills ran a Stockfish sweep on a 15+10 rapid game, matched the author's spoken thoughts to moves, and produced a narrated video.
Claude handled analytics, pricing, staffing and simple stall placement well, but failed at pathways, large coasters, and vertical terrain. The mod took about 40 hours.
Claude Code plays RollerCoaster Tycoon
Ramp Labs forked OpenRCT2, built a kubectl-style CLI, and let Claude Code manage a theme park through it.
Word starts and draws its ribbon, OneNote signs in and saves edits, and a retail Home 2024 key activated through account sign-in.
Microsoft 365 on Linux
A Nix flake runs Microsoft 365 and Office Home 2024 on Linux through umu-launcher and GE-Proton, with shims fixing Wine crashes.
About 19k lines of Rust across 154 commits in three days. The engine passes 64 SQLLogicTest queries and 282 AI-written unit tests.
SQLite-like engine in Rust
Claude, Codex, and Gemini workers, two of each, built a SQLite-style database engine in Rust by claiming tasks through git lock files.
A camera automation that fired 5 times in 40 minutes was fixed in under two minutes, and shed motion lights were built.
Home Assistant automations via Claude Code
Claude Code, connected to Home Assistant through an MCP server, debugged a misfiring automation, adjusted a dim level, and built a new shed motion-light automation.
The author finished most of their tax prep in about three hours, work they say would have cost $1,000 from an accountant.
Tax prep with Claude Code
Claude Code compiled charitable contributions, itemized deductions from email and card statements, and a Schedule C for the author's consulting income.
Shipped llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 to PyPI with six file and shell tools, a CLI and a Python API; it built a working ASCII-art clock app.
Coding agent built on LLM
Claude Code on the web wrote a spec, then built and tested a coding agent library on LLM using red/green TDD.
The author reports faster literature search, Zotero notes written automatically, and accurate answers about the ATS hydrology codebase through a custom ats-mcp server.
Research workflow with Claude Code
Claude Code with MCP servers handles literature search, Zotero notes, Gmail alert newsletters, and codebase questions for a hydrology researcher.
In daily production use: Instacart carts auto-staged twice weekly at 100% item accuracy, plus flight alerts and scheduled iMessages without an LLM.
Household automation add-ons for OpenClaw
The author built OpenClaw add-ons for outbox messaging, trips, flights, and Instacart carts that run their family's household on a Mac Mini.
Five mp3 songs were published, including a twelve-song album concept and a five-movement symphony, with MIDI and lyrics in public repos.
Songs composed with Claude Code
Claude Code wrote music for multiple tracks and lyrics, plus custom tooling that connects to the Bitwig DAW, producing five finished songs.
Docs rated 2 of 5, Google Ads setup 4 of 5, Looker dashboard 5 of 5; best docs run took about 2 hours.
Claude in Chrome PM review
Claude in Chrome was tested on help center docs, Google Ads campaign setup, and a Looker dashboard by a non-engineer product manager.
The Lex support automation built this way has 15 scripts and 6 templates, and handles about 80% of support tasks with yes/no approvals.
Support automation skill builder
A Claude Code skill that guides a team through building custom support automation across ticketing, billing, and database platforms, with triage and templated replies.
The author ran the full pipeline several times; it still takes over the one-hour daily goal, down from a typical 3-4 hours by hand.
Video to published pipeline
Claude Cowork transcribes a dropped-in video, proposes titles, drafts a blog post, uploads to YouTube, and schedules social posts while the author reviews each step.
It produced a report with BPM (~91), 4/4 meter, B major key, 50 onsets, a four-section timeline, and a stem list.
Audio analysis skill for Claude
Claude Code loaded a Gemini-written Loooom skill, installed its own audio libraries, and analyzed a 37-second piano recording of Espresso.
A VS Code extension was built overnight with 91 of 91 tests passing and a PR opened, costing about $0.35.
Overnight builds and inbox triage
OpenClaw on a Raspberry Pi 5 triages email, builds code from a TODO list overnight, and sends daily research reports to a security consultant.
Built a working What's for Dinner app with pantry, garden, recipe and restaurant pages plus a suggestions engine, in under a week.
First personal dinner-planning app
A non-programmer used Codex to build a local web app that suggests dinners from pantry, garden, dietary rules, appliances and weather.
Three years of minutes (2022-2024) were extracted in about 3 to 4 hours across three sessions and loaded as one source per year.
Meeting minutes into NotebookLM
Claude in Chrome, on the Haiku model, extracted exact text of three years of W3C task force meeting minutes into markdown for NotebookLM.
Out of 20 tasks, Devin had 14 failures, 3 successes, and 3 inconclusive results, with no pattern predicting which would work.
Month of Devin tasks
Devin was given more than 20 real coding, research, and code-modification tasks over a month by an Answer.AI team to test its autonomy.
Out of 20 tasks, Devin had 14 failures, 3 successes, and 3 inconclusive results, with no predictable pattern for which would work.
Month-long Devin trial
Devin was tested by the Answer.AI team on 20+ real coding, research, and code-modification tasks over a month through Slack.
The author upgraded kentcdodds.com across all dependency tiers, finishing a Remix v2 to React Router v7 migration with routing matching the original structure.
Dependency and framework upgrade
Cursor listed outdated packages by upgrade difficulty, then upgraded them in stages, including Remix v2 to React Router v7 on a 42k-line site.
In a 4-hour test, it completed each task on its own, and the author says the email feature saves about 30 minutes a day.
Browser assistant for daily tasks
Perplexity Comet sent an email, set a calendar reminder, wrote a Google Drive post, and summarised a YouTube video.
A working pipeline that outputs picks, performance metrics and a chart, with a 63-day backtest against an equal-weight benchmark and a test suite.
Multi-agent stock analysis pipeline
The author built a LangGraph system where valuation, sentiment and fundamental agents plus a coordinator rate four stocks and backtest the resulting portfolio.
Devin opened a PR in about four hours and got the build passing, but runtime issues remained and the author gave up.
Vue 2 to Vue 3 migration
Devin was asked to migrate a production Electron app from Vue 2 to Vue 3 with Composition API, script setup, and Pinia.
The author says the setup saves hours every week and keeps daily notes consistent, though no measured figures are given.
Cursor as Obsidian vault assistant
Cursor reads the author's whole Obsidian vault, reviews note structure, writes daily done notes from work outside Obsidian, and answers questions about their notes.
In about 5-6 minutes Manus returned five rental options with price, neighborhood, and links, work the author says would have taken hours.
Prague apartment hunt
Manus took one prompt with budget, district, and pet requirements, browsed Czech listing sites on its own, and compiled apartment options.
The author shipped a redesigned personal site, nearly right in one shot, after a few more iterations.
Personal site redesign with Codex
Codex CLI redesigned the author's personal site after reading a design prompt copied from Anthropic's frontend-design plugin into a local markdown file.
Prototyping, code completion, commenting and documentation earned A grades; web scraping, code tidying and getting started got D; dataframe manipulation and code generation got C.
Cursor for data science scorecard
The author used Cursor on a real data science project in Python and graded it across general coding and data tasks.
Ten agents were live in the first week and 20-30 run today. The CEO estimates at least a 5x return on investment.
Agent workforce for unstaffed functions
Ankor's CEO built Lindy agents covering lead research, technical support, content and marketing, and meeting prep, work too small to justify dedicated hires.
The author reports the setup added a 38% reply rate, per the post title; the visible text does not show the underlying data.
Grok Bot lead generation outreach
The author built a Grok Bot agent connected to Leadsforge and Salesforge to find leads against a set ICP and draft outreach campaigns.
The author showered while Codex waited in the queue and negotiated. The refund was done when they returned.
Stolen package refund via Computer Use
Codex with Computer Use waited in Amazon's support queue, polling on a schedule, then pursued a refund for a stolen package.
It found three forgotten Gap gift cards worth $150 and booked a physical exam, a hair appointment and a massage, with the author only approving.
Parent's life admin on autopilot
Grok Bot handled a parent's school-email prep, found unused gift cards, booked appointments, and listed an old wagon for sale on Facebook Marketplace.
A working prototype runs on the handset over mobile data: typed chat via DeepSeek, battery check, torch, calls and alarms, tested on the phone.
AI chat app on Nokia 110
Codex helped the author reverse-engineer a Nokia 110 4G's firmware and build a native AI chat app with a custom agent.
The bot got close to booking flights but missed the final step. Other bots edited and uploaded the video and posted it.
Grok Bot flight booking test
Grok Bot was tested as a travel agent that books flights, and the author also ran their video and social posting workflow through Grok bots.
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