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AI browser completed a Coursera assignment in seconds
Fortune showed a developer telling Comet to "complete the assignment", and it did a 45-minute job on its own.
- Tools
- Perplexity Comet
- Source
- fortune.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- October 10, 2025
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
On a Coursera course page, the only command was to complete the assignment. Comet read the page and solved what looked like a 45-minute web design task.
How it went
The report uses the case to illustrate the problem of cheating with agents; it is not a recommended use.
Good to know
For students: using the agent to learn (explain, correct) pays off more than outsourcing the assignment.
The prompt
I'm studying [subject] in the course [name]. Don't solve it for me: explain the concept of [topic] step by step, ask me 3 questions to check that I understood and correct my answers.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Case found via agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn); text and prompt rewritten by us. Found a mistake?
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