Research crypto assets and stage trades for review
A custom agent studied crypto markets, reviewed a full portfolio, and prepared swaps and perp orders on Hyperliquid.
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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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Search bank-owned homes and draft midterm rental listings
An agent scanned a chosen region for discounted bank-owned homes, estimated nearby rents, and helped prepare them as midterm rentals.
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Build a tiny agent for one app task
A developer makes small purpose-built agents, including one inside a music player, because the useful core can be very short.
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Use an agent to push a warranty claim by email
A user let an agent handle a mattress warranty thread, pressing the company with legal points until the back-and-forth stalled.
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Turn store and competitor data into an ad campaign
An agent pulled product and social data for a jewelry brand, checked rival ads, and drafted a full paid campaign with image and video ideas.
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Draft appeal letters from denied insurance claims
An automation watches for denied claims, gathers patient details, and drafts a formal appeal for staff to review.
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Build a tutoring loop that tests, teaches, and retests
Hugh Shbalz set up an agent to assess students, create lessons for weak spots, and check mastery again afterward.
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Watch five competitor sites for weekly price changes
An agent checked five brand sites each Monday, compared them with the prior week, and emailed a change report with screenshots.
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Ask support to review and refund a billing error
A customer challenged a wrong Vercel bill, and the support agent offered a refund without a human step.
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Blend rental listings with local environmental data
They built a villa search tool for Cyprus that layers property listings with air, water, noise, and landslide information.
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Let an AI agent place a lunch order
A developer had an AI agent handle lunch ordering and payment, and the meal showed up without any more input.
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Use an agent to triage repo work and buy groceries
They use a custom agent setup to file repo issues, carry code changes through testing, and place grocery orders under a spending limit.
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Automate follow-ups on a delayed airline refund
An agent kept pressing an airline for a stalled $1,200 refund until the money came through.
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Build a terminal calling tool with human backup
They wired a CLI agent to place calls and loop in a person only when it needed an answer.
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Turn handwritten appointments and PDFs into calendar entries
A developer built a private agent that reads appointment photos, adds events, searches email, and files PDFs into paperless.
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Prepare overseas supplier payments for review
An approved agent checked account balances and assembled supplier payment details so a person could review them before paying.
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Summarize today’s email and line up meetings
They connected an assistant to mail, calendar, meetings, and other apps, then asked it to turn the day’s inbox into a fast, usable brief.
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Set up a Friday night plan with friends
An Instinct agent picked the menu, movie, timing, and order for a group night without any group chat.
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Let a voice agent handle service calls and owner updates
A call-answering agent for home-service companies logs key details and sends the owner a text recap.
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Use image scans to spot thrift-store flips
An agent examined thrift-store images, matched items to online listings, and pointed out buys that looked cheap enough to resell.
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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.
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Gather immigration paperwork into one folder
ChatGPT Agent pulled together seven years of financial and immigration files for a filing packet in minutes.
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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.
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Use an agent to watch Resy for dinner openings
Brian had Hermes scan Resy for tables at favorite NYC restaurants, then book one for date night, until the account was suspended for overuse.
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