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61Booking airport parking: it only half worked
At TechCrunch, Comet suggested parking near San Francisco airport but got stuck when booking.
62Delegating moving tasks to a browser agent
A TechCrunch journalist tested Operator during their own move: parking permit, restaurant, electrician.
63Lab tests an agent for a month: most tasks failed
Answer.AI gave Devin real tasks and documented that few of them worked out.
64Charting your own blood tests from PDFs
Matt Stockton attached lab reports from different years and Claude built a tool that shows the trends and highlights abnormal results.
65A 5-day meal plan that becomes a grocery cart
With the Instacart plugin, the author asked for a plan with no fish or pork and got the list already in the cart.
66Tidying 2,200 files in the Downloads folder
A writer let Claude Cowork inventory and organize years of downloads, asking permission before deleting.
67Planning the family menu and entering recipes
The author gave Claude access to their pantry system to enter recipes and suggest the week's meals.
68Searching for an apartment in Prague with an agent
Manus filtered Czech listing portals and came back with five options, but got stuck when contacting landlords.
69Homeschooling mom uses agents for lesson plans
Jesse Genet photographed textbooks and an agent turned the material into illustrated lesson plans.
70Removing your phone number from data sites to cut spam
A user fed up with unwanted calls had an agent request removal of their number from people-search sites.
71Planning a Saturday of errands with a route and times
Amanda Caswell asked ChatGPT Agent for an itinerary covering a haircut, a return, groceries and a store.
72Alexa routines to organize your day (with a therapist's tip)
A journalist set up mood, water and lunch reminders on Alexa based on advice from a psychotherapist.
73Turning saved Instagram posts into a recipe book
A user asked Meta's agent to find all her saved recipes and organize them by type.
74Medical paperwork and a lease renewal with an assistant
Lane Rettig had an agent read 34 pages of forms and draft an insurance pre-authorization request.
75Unsubscribing from newsletters in bulk in Gmail
A PCWorld journalist let Claude suggest what to cancel, asked for his approval, and then had it click the links.
76A pill dispenser that alerts the caregiver
A guide shows a Raspberry Pi with an agent that releases the dose, takes a photo and alerts the family if it isn't taken.
77A morning summary of school emails with ready-made replies
A mother created a Gmail label and an agent that summarizes the folder and drafts replies for her to edit.
78A professor gathers tax documents and deductions with skills
Chris Blattman, a professor at the University of Chicago, built routines that hunt for tax documents in Gmail and assemble spreadsheets.
79A bot that negotiates a discount on your internet bill
DoNotPay built a bot that chatted with Comcast support and got $10 a month off, but it made up arguments.
80A full investment memo on a company
The author had Claude download Adyen's reports and build a business overview, an Excel model and a thesis.
81Building a dossier to fight for your consumer rights
The author describes the problem by voice and Claude builds a dossier with the contract, the company's advertising and the regulator.
82Reducing a $163,000 hospital bill
Matt Rosenberg asked Claude to compare each billed code with what Medicare pays.
83Finding a forgotten charge and getting a refund
The agent reviewed 12 months of receipts, found an idle database and kept pushing until the company issued a refund.
84Bookkeeping for a Swedish company with agents
A cofounder had agents read receipts, suggest accounts and VAT, and prepare entries for approval.
85A former tax preparer tests Claude on his own return
Ex-PwC Geoffrey Doempke let Claude classify documents and extract numbers into files he could check.
86Automatic expense tracking on a Raspberry Pi
Fahad Hasin, who says he knows little about coding, had Claude build an expense tracker that runs every night.
87An agent makes dealerships compete on the price of a car
AJ Stuyvenberg let an agent research prices, request quotes and pass the best offer on to rival dealers.
88AI calls stores to find out if a toy is in stock
A journalist used the Google feature that has AI phone the store and ask.
89Requesting an exchange for defective clothing from a photo
A photo of the torn pants, a receipt found in Gmail and an email to the store, ready to review.
90A 12-day homeschool curriculum built from PDFs
Michael Crist uploaded the 12 PDFs his wife used to sort by hand, and Claude built the daily schedule.