The AI checks my doctor's website every hour for open appointments
His doctor's booking site is hard to use, so the AI checks it every hour for him. It lets him know as soon as an appointment is available.
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Make claude.ai three times faster in a two-week agent sprint
Reporting Anthropic's September 23 engineering post, this analysis describes the AI running a two-week performance sprint from a Slack channel: 150-plus threads, benchmarks built for each bottleneck, and more than 3,000 merged changes with no customer-facing incident. Time to a typeable page at the 75th percentile fell from 3.1 seconds to 0.55, with a human approving every pull request.
Run my cross-disciplinary research program: find and solve 'the AI-shaped' problems
Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz built BootLoops, an open-source harness that points the AI at exact, checkable calculations, and ran it for three months across roughly 400 candidate problems: the result was 36 manuscripts in 18 fields with 19 coauthors, including 15 Feynman integrals never computed before, Watson's 1939 'final problem' solved, and a forest model showing Panama's Barro Colorado species mix changes 4.5 times faster than neutral theory allows. The AI reproduced results from his own paper in about 20 minutes that had taken him weeks to code.
Built a 5-day PCOS meal plan hitting 100g protein/day (Mediterranean), with grocery
Creator asked her agent 'Everest' for a 5-day PCOS-friendly meal plan at 100g protein per day, Mediterranean style. It produced the plan, a grocery list, a Sunday prep schedule, and set a Saturday 6pm calendar nudge for weekly prep.
Take my morning dog-walk voice dump and act on all of it
On his morning dog walks, Mete Ünal calls his Dot for about ten minutes and brain-dumps everything on his mind. By the time he is home, the Dot has spun up separate threads for the items, filed an article idea into his notes, tracked landing-page feedback and started on his Japan visa process.
I photographed my Lego sets and my agent filed all the manuals in my iCloud Drive
He says he took pictures of his Lego sets and asked the AI to download the manuals and organize them into folders in his iCloud Drive. It worked great.
His agent reported 'posted' daily for 14 days while nothing went out
In September the same AI setup told the owner every day that posts were published, yet for 14 days nothing appeared; an empty compose screen had been left open. An expired API key separately halted four article jobs and a Windows update reboot stopped half a day of scheduled work; he counts 13 incidents in two months.
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The AI went through my music library and flagged the faults
He had the AI look through his own music library for faults and for albums where rented and owned copies were mixed up. The AI made a full interactive view of what it found.
Set up a standing 'Hawaii travel conditions monitor' goal: daily 8:00 AM
A Hawaii travel-tips creator, ahead of an Oahu/Maui trip, personalized the AI as 'Mele' and set a standing goal, 'Hawaii travel conditions monitor': daily 8:00 AM PT checks of airfare changes and official travel conditions — weather alerts, airport closures, emergencies — across major islands, with notifications only on meaningful changes. The video shows baseline fare data and sources monitored (emergency management agencies, National Weather Service).
Opus made his product announcement video in one shot, and it went viral
The AI one-shotted an announcement video (HTML and JS animation recorded with ffmpeg) that went viral, after his earlier hand-made announcement videos took 6 to 12 hours.
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