He fed paper into a scanner for two hours while the AI ran it and catalogued his documents

He wanted to digitize his papers. The AI worked out how to use his feed scanner, and for about two hours he sat feeding pages in while the AI ran the scanner and catalogued the documents. He could talk to it through a conference speaker and watch it work in VS Code.

How it works

The AI works out how to drive the feed scanner
He feeds pages in for about two hours
The AI runs the scanner and catalogues each document as it goes
He talks to it through a conference speaker while it works

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent drives a physical scanner: he only has to keep feeding it paper while it does the filing.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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