Gather immigration paperwork into one folder
ChatGPT Agent pulled together seven years of financial and immigration files for a filing packet in minutes.
ChatGPT Agent
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What people are really doing with AI agents
Real examples, collected from Reddit, X, Hacker News, blogs and the press, of people handing work to AI agents: what they asked for, what happened, what went wrong, and a prompt you can copy to try it yourself.
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Use AI agents to find local businesses and send audits
They used five Grok bots to find likely leads, write custom audits, send outreach, and manage replies until clients signed on.
Grok Bot
Triage email by voice while you walk
Use voice commands to sort email, draft replies, and capture follow-ups while you are away from your desk.
Codex
Teach a bot a workflow from a screen recording
Have Grok Bot learn a repeated task from a recording, then run it again while pausing for any login or submission step.
Grok Bot
Use Claude in Chrome for messy browser tasks
People used Claude in Chrome to handle multi-tab business work and to turn clothing tabs into a trip packing list.
Claude in Chrome
Build a balloon creature simulator for a light sculpture
They used Claude Code to make a Go-based balloon physics simulator with a web front end for a Burning Man totem.
Claude CodeChatGPTClaude in Chrome
Build a solo business workflow with 16 agents
A founder used about 16 Claude and Codex agents to keep a side business moving while working a full-time job.
Claude CodeCodex
Build a dog-collecting app with data-based rarity
They had Replit Agent make a catch-em-all dog app, using American Kennel Club regional population data to decide how rare each dog was.
Replit Agent
Use public data to fill out a batch of forms
A user had Claude fill 50 work forms from public company information, then checked them and found them accurate.
Claude Code
Sort receipts from a folder and flag missing details
An agent sorted receipt files, set aside the ones missing card details, and saved a payment method it detected.
Grok Bot
Set up email-triggered handling for incoming messages
Grok Bot can react to new email, summarize it, draft replies, pull invoice details, and hand off follow-up work through connected tools.
Grok Bot
Triage delayed orders and low stock
A store owner uses Claude to spot shipping delays, stale tracking, and stock problems before they review orders themselves.
Claude
Build one dashboard for investing, taxes, and credit checks
A developer used Claude Code to create a local finance system that organized account data, tax prep, and credit alerts.
Claude Code
Use a patch diff to map a sandbox exploit path
A researcher had Claude Code study a PaperCut NG fix, rebuild the flaw chain in a lab, and reach working code execution.
Claude Code
Map a codebase file by file with short method notes
A commenter had Claude Code summarize each file’s unusual methods so they could keep track of a project they were steadily revising.
Claude Code
Let an agent work inside your logged-in Chrome tabs
Manus can handle forms and multi-step tasks in your own browser session without switching to a separate virtual browser.
Manus
Build a browser 4X game with LLM help
A developer used Grok and Gemini to assemble Hexwardia, a browser-based 4X game, in two weeks.
Gemini
Review filings from saved notes with Claude Code
A non-engineer used Claude Code to pull equity research from saved filings and notes, then checked the numbers with a second pass.
Claude Code
Let an agent shop, build a cart, and stop before payment
A store can let Claude or ChatGPT browse products, assemble a cart, and prepare checkout before sending the buyer to the merchant site.
ClaudeChatGPT
Build and play-test a Mars simulator game
They used Grok Build to create, test, and refine a browser Mars simulator for a nephew.
Grok Bot
Check a medical collections bill and dispute it if needed
A finance bot reviewed a healthcare account, found the explanation of benefits, and sent a dispute over a mistaken $13K collections bill.
Grok Bot
Inspect a broken book file and search it manually
When an indexer failed on an uploaded book, Claude used shell commands to identify the file type and search the text directly.
Claude
Track weekly deals and reorder staple items
They used one bot to spot discounts on repeat buys and another to place orders after approval, then keep tabs on confirmations and shipping.
Grok Bot
Draft a minimal Windows VNC viewer from a brief
They asked Claude to build a tiny Windows 10 VNC client from an email spec, but after a week it still did not work.
ClaudeChatGPT