Use Claude to find roles and tailor each resume
People use Claude to shortlist job ads and rewrite resumes for the ones they want to pursue.
Claude
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What people are really doing with AI agents
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Move a Chrome extension into Safari
A developer had ChatGPT rewrite Session Buddy from Chrome for Safari and get it working in roughly 20 minutes.
ChatGPT
Post RSS blog summaries to Bluesky automatically
A Zapier agent turns new RSS items into Bluesky drafts that point readers to Medium, with approval before anything is sent.
Zapier Agents
Create a searchable help-video library for an app
A developer used Replit Agent to assemble a /help page that turns scripted walkthroughs into recorded, narrated tutorial videos.
Replit Agent
Make a theatrical payment request app
A person used Replit Agent to build a phone-friendly app that turns money requests into a dramatic reveal with status tracking.
Replit Agent
Automate an AI newsletter from topic pick to inbox
An n8n schedule launches Gemini-written AI newsletters, cleans the markup, and emails the final version to subscribers.
n8nGemini
Screen leads and draft emails with human sign-off
They used n8n to clean incoming leads, score them, prepare outreach, and hold each message until a person okayed it.
n8n
Summarize Reddit discussions into Notion pages
An n8n flow collects Reddit threads, lets Gemini pull out themes, and posts the findings into Notion.
n8nGemini
Build lead-finding and voice outreach workflows in n8n
A developer wired n8n to collect roofing leads, enrich them, place AI voice calls, and sort each call result back into a spreadsheet.
n8n
Set up a Claude agent to handle sushi orders
A developer used Claude to chat with customers, answer menu questions, and route confirmed Instagram orders for a seven-branch sushi business.
Claude
Use spare AI quota to draft reviewable PRs
A founder pointed an agent at goals and task lists so it could turn leftover Claude and Codex quota into pull requests for review.
ClaudeCodex
Use AI to turn a denial notice into an appeal draft
They fed a long insurance rejection PDF to an AI assistant for a quick breakdown, then caught it making up a filing deadline.
Custom agent
Triage client Slack messages into tickets and drafts
Use Devin to inspect new client messages, open Linear tickets, and draft replies for human approval.
Devin
Have an agent launch a business from zero
A developer gave Devin the tools to operate independently and asked it to build a business from scratch.
Devin
Use an agent to prospect and draft outreach for web design leads
Chris Wozniczek had Devin look for leads, create sample sites, and prepare tailored cold emails for website services.
Devin
Run Copilot CLI in loops and split multi-part work
Daniel Ward used GitHub Copilot’s autopilot and /fleet features to finish larger jobs and divide separate chunks across parallel agents.
GitHub Copilot
Break a runtime migration into tiny reviewable PRs
GitHub engineers had Copilot agents carry out most of a large TypeScript-to-Rust runtime rewrite.
GitHub Copilot
Run terminal commands carefully in Copilot agent mode
A VS Code user had Copilot agent mode run shell commands, but it often missed output or got stuck until they changed the shell setup.
GitHub Copilot
Set Copilot to code in a branch before it pushes
A developer used GitHub Copilot to work issues, but learned to give tighter instructions after it wrote weak first PRs and pushed to the wrong place.
GitHub Copilot
Extract receipt details into a CSV for books
A developer built a custom GPT to read receipt photos and turn them into bookkeeping-ready CSV rows, while still requiring a person to verify the results.
ChatGPT
Have Claude check flight refund rules and write the claim
Claude can pull together the trip details, look up the current rules, and draft a refund email after a flight disruption.
Claude
Use Copilot to handle small site edits in draft PRs
A developer handed GitHub Copilot two minor website tweaks and got back separate draft pull requests that were easy to test and merge.
GitHub Copilot
Create a receipt extractor for bookkeeping records
Claude Code helped assemble a tool that reads receipts, turns them into structured bookkeeping data, and handles foreign currencies by receipt date.
Claude Code
Build a local bookkeeping system with Claude
They used Claude to help plan and ship a self-hosted finance tool that sorted expenses, created a review queue, and replaced paid accounting software.
Claude