https://agentsinthewildai.com/Real things people get AI agents to do, with the source and a prompt to try it.enhttps://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/288-meta-muse-hunts-apartments-daily-only-pings-when-it-s-worth/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/288-meta-muse-hunts-apartments-daily-only-pings-when-it-s-worth/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTApartment hunting with a long list of requirements, they gave Muse the list and had it search Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace daily for places that fit. It only pings them when something worthwhile turns up.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/287-a-date-string-tool-built-with-gemini-should-save-45-seconds/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/287-a-date-string-tool-built-with-gemini-should-save-45-seconds/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTTired of typing new Date().toISOString() and doing timezone math by hand, they built a small tool with Gemini, which added obscure date formats and random historical events along the way.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/286-one-prompt-to-claude-and-15-minutes-later-fix-it-today-or-tu/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/286-one-prompt-to-claude-and-15-minutes-later-fix-it-today-or-tu/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn a meeting about a bug in an app they didn't own, they told Claude to find out if it was user error, notify the user, and tell the developer what to fix. Fifteen minutes later, the developer asked: today or Tuesday?https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/285-from-2-4-a-day-to-under-0-25-ci-moved-to-a-homelab-with-clau/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/285-from-2-4-a-day-to-under-0-25-ci-moved-to-a-homelab-with-clau/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAfter $45 in GitHub Actions overage in one month, a solo founder put an idle homelab to work as CI runners, with Claude making it easy to set up. Daily spend dropped from $2-4 a day to under $0.25.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/284-15k-pages-of-discovery-claude-code-finds-the-evidence-with-a/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/284-15k-pages-of-discovery-claude-code-finds-the-evidence-with-a/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbout 15k pages of discovery stood between a solo practice and a summary judgment motion. Claude ran OCR, built embeddings and search scripts, then found evidence for each assertion, with traces to check.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/283-synth-firmware-came-much-faster-with-gentle-prodding-at-clau/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/283-synth-firmware-came-much-faster-with-gentle-prodding-at-clau/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA first homemade synth has 36 hall-effect keys and buttons and 7 rotary encoders. The firmware started by hand, then gentle prodding at Claude got everything needed much faster. Rev 2 of the PCB is nearly done.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/282-meta-muse-installed-duckdb-and-now-runs-their-budget-exports/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/282-meta-muse-installed-duckdb-and-now-runs-their-budget-exports/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMuse comes with its own VM, so they had it install duckdb and set up automated exports for their budgeting, which now run for them.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/281-a-six-page-chatgpt-prompt-does-the-first-pass-on-businesses/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/281-a-six-page-chatgpt-prompt-does-the-first-pass-on-businesses/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuying small e-commerce brands, they codified everything they look for into a six page prompt. Given a listing's screenshots and financials, ChatGPT takes a first pass to decide whether a seller call is worth taking.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/280-claude-invents-new-fermi-questions-from-random-dictionary-wo/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/280-claude-invents-new-fermi-questions-from-random-dictionary-wo/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA browser game where you answer with a power of ten leans on Claude for code and content: fact checking answers, writing explanations, and inventing new questions.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/279-claude-coded-it-a-60-hour-audiobook-synced-to-its-text-in-20/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/279-claude-coded-it-a-60-hour-audiobook-synced-to-its-text-in-20/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTFor syncing epub and audiobook files, they had Claude implement forced alignment using a CTC transcription model. It aligns a 60 hour book's transcript in 20 minutes, even with dirty source data.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/278-faster-than-any-other-mac-app-the-markdown-viewer-claude-cod/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/278-faster-than-any-other-mac-app-the-markdown-viewer-claude-cod/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarkdown files should just open, so they asked Claude Code for a viewer. It opens instantly: faster, they say, than any other macOS app, and faster than Bitwarden's Chrome extension shows its fill menu.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/277-a-routine-password-reset-migration-cost-about-2-months-of-cl/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/277-a-routine-password-reset-migration-cost-about-2-months-of-cl/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMigrating a password reset flow, Claude Code and Opus produced code on par with a mid level developer. It needed close supervision throughout, and cost roughly 2 months of Pro subscription for about half a day's work.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/276-claude-decided-on-its-own-to-build-pixel-by-pixel-tests-for/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/276-claude-decided-on-its-own-to-build-pixel-by-pixel-tests-for/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWorking on a Quake project, Claude decided on its own to build a test suite: demo playbacks with snapshots compared pixel by pixel, plus recorded demos whose screenshots it checked for each element.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/275-no-agency-no-screen-recording-claude-code-made-the-launch-vi/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/275-no-agency-no-screen-recording-claude-code-made-the-launch-vi/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA side project needed a launch video, but not an agency's bill. Claude Code built one from the codebase plus their feedback. It took a lot of iteration over 2-3 days, all on subscription token usage.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/274-chatgpt-checked-kayak-and-found-an-earlier-way-home-from-cos/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/274-chatgpt-checked-kayak-and-found-an-earlier-way-home-from-cos/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTBooking flights for a Costa Rica trip, a picky traveler asked ChatGPT to look them up. It checked Kayak, noticed the return flights got in too late and offered other options; they ended up booking one.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/273-grok-bot-now-summarizes-every-call-for-a-home-service-busine/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/273-grok-bot-now-summarizes-every-call-for-a-home-service-busine/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA home service business connected Grok Bot to its phone system after a few hours of setup. It now listens to every call and posts a summary to the team's Slack channel.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/272-taxes-done-twice-with-claude-and-turbotax-reconciled-to-the/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/272-taxes-done-twice-with-claude-and-turbotax-reconciled-to-the/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA former PwC tax preparer did their own return with Claude, then again in TurboTax. Claude read the forms and statements and caught a missed credit, and the two matched to the dollar after reconciling.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/271-claude-code-helped-move-a-saas-from-aws-to-digitalocean-in-4/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/271-claude-code-helped-move-a-saas-from-aws-to-digitalocean-in-4/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA URL shortener side project ran on AWS. Claude Code wrote the GitHub Actions workflows for the move and fixed each failure as it came up. The writer reports zero downtime.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/270-claude-code-did-the-edits-a-monorepo-s-checks-fell-from-29s/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/270-claude-code-did-the-edits-a-monorepo-s-checks-fell-from-29s/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA 7-app monorepo needed an 8 GB memory setting and 25 seconds to typecheck. Claude Code made the changes for the move to oxlint, oxfmt and tsgo, and the team validated each step.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/269-cowork-built-a-one-screen-kpi-dashboard-from-12-tabs-in-20-m/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/269-cowork-built-a-one-screen-kpi-dashboard-from-12-tabs-in-20-m/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvery Monday a 12-tab marketing tracker got a 30-minute scroll and a vague gut check. Claude Cowork read every tab and built a color-coded dashboard inside the live Google Sheet.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/268-cursor-on-a-data-science-project-great-at-streamlit-weak-at/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/268-cursor-on-a-data-science-project-great-at-streamlit-weak-at/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA data scientist tried Cursor on a real project. Prototyping, code completion and commenting went well, but pandas code kept failing and it deleted a bunch of data files.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/267-claude-scrapes-substack-rankings-weekly-cowork-writes-the-re/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/267-claude-scrapes-substack-rankings-weekly-cowork-writes-the-re/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTTracking which newsletters break into Substack's top 200 meant clicking and copy-pasting. Claude in Chrome now scrapes the charts every Tuesday, and Cowork turns the data into a spreadsheet report.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/266-no-way-to-schedule-whatsapp-texts-so-claude-code-built-one/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/266-no-way-to-schedule-whatsapp-texts-so-claude-code-built-one/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhatsApp has no native way to schedule messages, and the writer didn't want third-party apps in their chats. Claude Code built a scheduler using a headless browser, and a recurring message now goes out every morning.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/265-every-night-chatgpt-checks-orders-and-drafts-the-invoice/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/265-every-night-chatgpt-checks-orders-and-drafts-the-invoice/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCompleted orders needed checking against CRM records before billing. Every night ChatGPT reviews each order form against the CRM for mistakes, then creates a draft invoice in the accounting system for review.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/264-claude-code-combed-credit-card-statements-and-saved-hours/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/264-claude-code-combed-credit-card-statements-and-saved-hours/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPossible business expenses were buried in a stack of credit card statements. Claude Code went through every statement, flagged the charges that might need reimbursing and put them in an Excel sheet.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/263-openclaw-turned-a-weekend-of-hospital-forms-into-a-lunch-bre/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/263-openclaw-turned-a-weekend-of-hospital-forms-into-a-lunch-bre/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHospital paperwork needed sorting, some in a language still being learned. An OpenClaw agent scanned 34 pages, flagged missing signatures and drafted an insurance pre-approval for review.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/262-claude-code-archived-their-linkedin-posts-to-their-blog/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/262-claude-code-archived-their-linkedin-posts-to-their-blog/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWanting a backup of their own LinkedIn posts before the platform's bot-blocking caught up, the writer had Claude Code drive a headless browser through their feed and copy the posts to their personal blog.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/261-a-3-5-7-hour-client-audit-done-by-claude-in-0-5-hours/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/261-a-3-5-7-hour-client-audit-done-by-claude-in-0-5-hours/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA technical SEO and UX audit for a new client site normally takes the writer 3.5 to 7 hours. Claude pulled client info from OneDrive, ran the audit, drove a remote PageSpeed tool, and produced a Word report in 0.5 hours.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/260-aider-built-a-27-81-bridge-between-amazon-and-ynab/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/260-aider-built-a-27-81-bridge-between-amazon-and-ynab/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMatching Amazon orders to YNAB entries by hand was tedious, so the writer vibe-coded a Chrome extension with Aider that reads Amazon orders, matches them to YNAB, and uses Claude's Haiku to clean up the memo line.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/259-codex-built-each-aws-design-in-a-day-not-an-estimated-three/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/259-codex-built-each-aws-design-in-a-day-not-an-estimated-three/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuilding their first AWS project by vibe coding, the writer designed the architecture and let Codex write the code. A flawed first design took a day, against an estimated three or four; the redesign also took a day and scaled.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/258-claude-built-a-proof-checker-then-found-its-own-flaws/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/258-claude-built-a-proof-checker-then-found-its-own-flaws/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAfter building a minimal proof assistant, the writer asked Claude how they knew the prover was actually sound. Claude checked, found five different ways it could prove false theorems, and fixed them.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/257-never-built-an-extension-claude-made-them-a-firefox-chats-or/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/257-never-built-an-extension-claude-made-them-a-firefox-chats-or/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn unwieldy pile of Claude chats sent the writer looking for an organizer extension, but the only one they found was Chrome-only. Claude built one from scratch for Firefox instead.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/256-three-ai-agents-raced-through-a-50-page-tax-return/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/256-three-ai-agents-raced-through-a-50-page-tax-return/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA roughly 50-page tax return, run through three coding agents side by side. Codex was accurate first time in 12 minutes, Antigravity missed a value until prompted, and Claude Code stumbled overnight.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/255-codex-and-claude-finally-built-the-rss-reader-they-shelved/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/255-codex-and-claude-finally-built-the-rss-reader-they-shelved/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTFour years after shelving a homemade RSS reader and selling off its $500 domain, the writer built it this year with Codex and Claude. They use it daily, along with 30 other strangers who found it public.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/254-claude-rebuilt-a-1996-toaster-screensaver-with-pushback/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/254-claude-rebuilt-a-1996-toaster-screensaver-with-pushback/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTChasing a childhood itch for the exact 1996 After Dark Flying Toasters screensaver, the writer turned to Claude. It did a lot of good reverse-engineering work, but kept inventing details that needed pushback.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/253-hermes-agent-kept-watch-and-booked-the-swim-lesson/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/253-hermes-agent-kept-watch-and-booked-the-swim-lesson/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTBooking swimming lessons for their son was on the to-do list. Hermes Agent monitored availability and automatically booked a suitable slot the moment one opened up.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/252-gemini-curates-a-twice-weekly-news-digest-email/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/252-gemini-curates-a-twice-weekly-news-digest-email/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTTo keep up with industry and tech news, the writer built a free-tier Google Cloud Run job pulling Google News RSS feeds. Gemini picks which articles match their criteria and triggers a summary email.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/251-claude-cowork-sized-a-10-000-node-cluster-in-30-seconds/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/251-claude-cowork-sized-a-10-000-node-cluster-in-30-seconds/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDuring a live call, the writer dumped nomad-job-inspect data for a 10,000-node cluster into Claude Cowork and asked for memory/CPU requirements by job, datacenter and SKU. It built the table in under 30 seconds.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/250-chatgpt-ported-a-chrome-plugin-to-safari-in-20-minutes/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/250-chatgpt-ported-a-chrome-plugin-to-safari-in-20-minutes/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTSafari's lack of a favorite Chrome plugin was the writer's last complaint about it. ChatGPT pulled the source from their installed Chrome extension, ported it, and installed it in Safari in 20 minutes.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/249-openclaw-scans-used-bookstores-against-a-goodreads-list/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/249-openclaw-scans-used-bookstores-against-a-goodreads-list/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWanting their son to grow up around books, they hooked OpenClaw to their Goodreads list to scan local used bookstores for titles to buy. They say they've never read as much or enjoyed it as much as now.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/248-claude-wrote-a-test-harness-for-a-bug-no-one-wanted-to-chase/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/248-claude-wrote-a-test-harness-for-a-bug-no-one-wanted-to-chase/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA rabbitmq connector occasionally got stuck after rare network drops, too minor to spend days fixing. Claude built a test harness that reproduced it, and the actual fix wasn't too hard.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/247-hermes-agent-wrote-sang-and-made-a-whole-8d-music-video/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/247-hermes-agent-wrote-sang-and-made-a-whole-8d-music-video/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn 8D music video with millions of views sparked a test: could an agent make one? Hermes Agent wrote the lyrics and music, made visuals from the song and added the 8D effect and audio-responsive video.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/246-claude-cowork-turned-a-meal-prep-video-into-a-stocked-grocer/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/246-claude-cowork-turned-a-meal-prep-video-into-a-stocked-grocer/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWatching a meal-prep video and building a shopping list by hand ate up time each week. Claude Cowork extracted the recipes, matched ingredients to past-invoice brands, filled the cart, and saved the recipes to Notion.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/245-devin-s-first-pr-took-10-minutes-its-150-credits-lasted-unde/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/245-devin-s-first-pr-took-10-minutes-its-150-credits-lasted-unde/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA client's CRM needed a new deals feature. Devin opened a first pull request in under 10 minutes, but its PRs carried unneeded changes, it gave a false answer about a library, and it hit its usage limit.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/244-openclaw-read-15-pull-requests-to-recommend-an-upgrade/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/244-openclaw-read-15-pull-requests-to-recommend-an-upgrade/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhen a new OpenClaw beta added Telegram message streaming, they asked their agent what else had changed. It read 15+ merged pull requests, compared them to the current version, and gave an upgrade recommendation.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/243-claude-applied-for-50-jobs-in-less-than-30-minutes/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/243-claude-applied-for-50-jobs-in-less-than-30-minutes/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTApplying to jobs one by one eats hours. Using the new Claude Computer Use, 50 job applications went out in less than 30 minutes.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/242-40-strangers-one-conference-claude-code-built-the-briefing/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/242-40-strangers-one-conference-claude-code-built-the-briefing/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTBefore a conference with 40 people they had never met, LinkedIn research normally takes an evening. Claude Code researched the attendees in parallel via LinkedIn and Chrome MCP, producing a full briefing in 5 minutes.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/241-a-homemade-agent-turns-vet-charges-into-ready-to-send-insura/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/241-a-homemade-agent-turns-vet-charges-into-ready-to-send-insura/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTVet bills mean a paper chase of card charges, emailed invoices and insurer forms. A homemade agent matches each charge to its Gmail invoice, fills the claim form with Gemini's help and stages a draft. A person hits send.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/240-a-raspberry-pi-car-assistant-answers-by-voice-no-internet-ne/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/240-a-raspberry-pi-car-assistant-answers-by-voice-no-internet-ne/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA Raspberry Pi rides in the car and runs a local AI model that answers spoken questions through the car's own speakers, even with the internet switched off. It also posts engine faults into the household chat room.https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/239-played-thinking-aloud-then-claude-checked-each-thought-with/https://agentsinthewildai.com/cases/239-played-thinking-aloud-then-claude-checked-each-thought-with/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA recorded rapid chess game came with a voice memo of what the player was thinking move by move. Claude drove Stockfish to question each thought and built a narrated video explaining the mistakes.