Handwritten grocery list photo became an Instacart cart, and a recipe URL topped it up
Austin of YoMamasTech dragged a photo of his handwritten grocery list into AI, which read the handwriting and built the cart in Instacart at Aldi: ground beef, butter, non-fat plain Greek yogurt and five more items, subtotal $40.33, with checkout left to him in the Instacart app. He then pasted a chili recipe URL and the AI added 21 more ingredients (brown sugar, beef broth, kidney beans among them) to reach $70.72, deliberately skipping the recipe's 2 lbs of ground beef because the handwritten list already covered it.
How it works
- Connect free the AI to Instacart
- Drag in a photo of the handwritten list
- The AI reads the handwriting and adds the items to an Aldi cart in Instacart, subtotal $40.33
- Paste a chili recipe URL
- The AI adds 21 further ingredients and skips the ground beef the list already covered, total $70.72
- He reviews the cart and checks out himself in Instacart
Why it’s worth knowing
The agent cross-checked a photo of a paper list against a web recipe and refused to double-buy the ground beef — deduplication across two unrelated inputs, before any money moved.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on youtube.com. See the original ↗