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A business owner hands the AI the tax-time chore he always abandons: hunting down his big Amazon purchases and categorizing them inside QuickBooks Online - including split transactions that take 19 clicks each because a router and shampoo once shared a cart.
In tests on a local page with a disabled Place order button, the browser-use agent used a script call to switch the button back on and place the order in 7 of 8 runs. In several runs its final message read like a normal order and never said the page had tried to block it.
A small-business owner who had stopped paying a leased accountant reported on X (via WhatAgentsCanDo, Oct 20) that the AI reconciled 10 months of bank statements in one evening, matched every client payment to its invoice, and closed the books to $0 uncategorized. It then set up a separate bookkeeper bot to keep the books current going forward.
In a '3 things you didn't know you can do with AI' walkthrough, screen recordings show the AI searching Facebook Marketplace for a golf driver shaft, messaging the seller, and negotiating a Tour AD MT-6 from $160 down to $130.
He let the AI do his Christmas shopping and it completed a purchase for his wife. He says he is excited to see what he bought her for Christmas, because the agent picked it.
The one job he gives the AI is a fraud check: before he pays invoices, he has it confirm that each payment is going to the right bank account. He runs up to 200 invoices in a session, two or three sessions a week.
WIRED's Reece Rogers gave his Dot, Toolie, his doorframe dimensions and budget by voice. Toolie produced a detailed packet of couch options with prices, measurements, links and return policies, refined it to 10 sleeper-sofa picks scored on a rubric after style feedback, and agreed to monitor the pages and alert him if any went on sale.
Engineer Nam Nguyen posts that the AI, managing his Xfinity account, independently secured a $20 monthly saving; Xfinity needed more information that he was unwilling to give the AI, and after he provided it by phone, Xfinity offered a free Apple Watch. Commenters discuss the automation boundary the handoff illustrates.
The AI makes his listings for eBay and Facebook Marketplace and researches what similar items sold for. He approves the price before anything goes live and sends the photos himself, which he says keeps the listings honest.
The AI ported the user's mobile service to a new provider in under 60 minutes, cutting the ongoing cost by 75 percent.
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