A local AI ordered their groceries while they cooked pasta
It knows roughly what's in the fridge, their usual orders and nearby shops' live stock. Their local Qwen model did what big-tech agents keep promising, and live stock data was the missing piece.
Done withQwenSpotted· by HN user eurekin· Oct 15, 2026
Result Knows the fridge and their last 10 orders
“I'm writing this, literally in between cooking a pasta, that the local llm ordered products for me online.”
Spotted: found in the wild. Details are as reported by the source above and have not been independently verified.
What they did
Built a grocery shopping skill for a local model (Qwen 3.6 27B) that roughly knows what’s in their fridge, their last 10 representative orders (their preferences plus details on the shops and products around them), and real-time stock information.
How it went
It ordered products for them online while they were cooking. They say it delivers what big tech agents have long promised, and that live stock data was the piece every other grocery product was missing.
Try it yourself with Qwen
You do my grocery shopping. Here's roughly what's in my fridge and cupboards: [list], my usual orders: [paste], and my nearby shops: [list]. For this week's meals [list], work out what I need, check what's in stock now, and build the cheapest basket that covers it. Show me the basket before ordering anything, and never go over [budget].
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.
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