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Analyzing an exported brokerage account to count yearly trading decisions

"I had this idea where we basically exported his brokerage account, and we put it in Claude, and we asked it over the last 12 years, how many decisions did you make a year?"

Sam Parr

Running daily automated SEO guide creation and writing all code and web content

"I use extensively Codex and Claude... but I will say at this point, 99% of the stuff that is left to be done is Claude waking up every morning and then running the guide, and that's kind of it."

Rasty Turek

Rewriting and updating an old academic dissertation with current information

"So I had ChatGPT rewrite her dissertation that she wrote 20-something years ago, but everything is now current... She was like, 'This is amazing. What AI is this?' And I'm like, 'It's ChatGPT.'"

a16z

Fact-checking and research

"Oh my god, you kids have it good now. I love ChatGPT and Claude and so on. It's so much easier. You need to know how to interrogate the system."

Tim Ferriss

Coding sessions where it helps flesh out specifications

"I don't know if you've done a Claude Code session recently, but often what I find is, you know, I say, 'I want this.' And it's like, 'Oh yes, and you probably want this, this, and this too.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, actually, you're right. I do want that.'"

Clark Barrett

Shipping production code by running 3-4 parallel sessions with implementer and tech-lead reviewer agents. He built a data lake auto-promotion feature in about 10 days instead of 6 months.

"I tell Claude to spin up command line sub agents because those maintain their persistent session over time. And so you can have it spin up these agents separately. You can actually run them from other sessions and so on. And that allows you to be much more ..."

Jad Naous

Logging into accounts and handling customer service tasks with Comcast

"I actually do this with Codex because it turned out Comcast is blocking Muse. They know the IP addresses or something, so it won't let you log in. So, I just have ChatGPT, you know, Codex, Astra, like log in on my computer, does everything."

a16z

Writing his long-form article 'How Codex Happened'

"That's coming out on Thursday. It's going to be awesome. I am psyched for this. I wrote it mostly with Codex and a lot of Gemini 4 Argon."

Dan Shipper

Writing long-form articles, such as an 8,000-word piece

"I used it for writing all weekend and it is without a doubt my favorite new writing model. It beats Astra, which was my previous favorite. It definitely beats Claude. It has an incredibly good feel for structuring information and I used it all weekend to wr..."

Dan Shipper

Medical research and turning interview transcripts into newsletter posts

"I think really pleasantly surprised by how good Gemini 4 did at doing medical research, answering the questions that I had... for something like medical questions, I actually do want something that's super well researched. And that combined with its improve..."

Peter Yang

Finding out what Twitter is saying about a topic

"Sometimes I'll just ask Grok, and Grok is famously a little bit more unhinged. And so if I really care about like what is Twitter saying about the thing, cuz Twitter has strong opinions on both sides of the political divide, I'll just ask Grok."

Ali Abdaal

Collecting screenshots and articles about places to eat in Japan, then generating an HTML file of places organized by neighborhood

"Now between my trips here, I have a bot. I have a Grok bot and I take screenshots and articles and I just give it to my bot. I used to write everything down in a book. Now I just give it to my bot and I say when I'm in Japan, make me an HTML file of all the..."

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Running AI agents independently on local hardware for AI sovereignty

"OpenClaw is a vote on making agents that are independent. If you use OpenClaw with Neotron or Gemma, which is Google's open source product, you will be sovereign AI. In other words, the AI running on your Mac Studio with 256 gigs of RAM."

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Powers Jim, Brex's AI recruiting employee; also powers Pedro's personal 'autopilot' life management system that ingests Slack, email, and meeting notes

"This is Jim. Jim is our OpenClaw recruiter. It runs on effectively like a three-stage pipeline. We do use OpenClaw for this but the harness doesn't really matter as much as just the skills. I have this system that I call autopilot and basically what it does..."

Pedro Franceschi

Searching X from Claude Code via webhook; agent email

"But now, as of a few days ago, GrokBot can just search X natively. You don't need to connect your X account. You don't need to pay extra... So I just went to Claude Code and I said, 'Hey, can you use the GrokBot webhook skill...'"

Riley Brown

Creating agent workflows, team bots in Slack, and a primary bot that delegates tasks

"I've been talking about how Grokbot is the best UI so far for creating workflows with agents and talking to agents... It'll always choose the best model when you're using Grokbot. It honestly makes Grokbot arguably the best personal agent platform right now..."

Riley Brown

"I use Perplexity as well."

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Looking up health and science information more efficiently than traditional web search

"For anything we've said today, you plug it into Perplexity, you get better than a search — and you don't have to wade through 10 different articles and the different perspectives and who wrote this and who funded this."

Andrew Huberman

Finding and purchasing outdoor lights

"I wanted to buy some outdoor lights, and I asked Instinct to go and help me find these lights. And it found the lights at Walmart, which makes a ton of sense."

Terry Angelos

Proactive personal assistant over text: missed DocuSign reminders, prescription pickup timing, changing flights, snagging restaurant reservations, scheduling with friends

"I've told it there's a restaurant that's a hard reservation to get into... it's like, 'Hey, I can't log in with your OpenTable, but it drops at this time every 2 weeks.' ...it snagged the reservation for me perfectly and added it to my calendar. And then th..."

Kevin Rose

Testing Opus 5 for knowledge work tasks; creating investor slide decks; everyday enterprise tasks

"I recommend trying it within Claude Cowork or within Claude Code. Anthropic is positioning Opus 5 as its everyday model for enterprises, knowledge workers, and developers, and the best way to test it would probably be in the home tab using Claude Cowork."

Riley Brown

Logging into carrier portals to download and ingest documents; automating a previously manual business process

"If you look at Claude Cowork, which came out two weeks ago, and the types of spreadsheets and models that they're creating — you're like, oh, this is actually like valuable, good work. We use this internally for simple things like logging into carrier porta..."

JD Ross

Online shopping for general goods with reliable delivery and returns

"My personal revealed preference is I would almost always want it from Amazon because I trust it's going to get there. I know where to go to look to see if it's on its way. I know where to go to process a return if I want to do that."

Ben Thompson

Brand awareness marketing and retail distribution channel for a beverage CPG brand

"We were 100% on Amazon from day one, which was a decision we made as a board to do that. And it was such a good decision, but you don't make a lot of money on Amazon as a beverage. We saw it as a great marketing tactic for awareness because it's in so many ..."

Allison Ellsworth

Coding agents and AI-assisted development workflows internally at ClickHouse

"Our Anthropic spend is up 100 times from what it was at the beginning of the year. I sent an email to the company and the subject was 'the AI awakening' and I said I think we're moving too slowly and I'm not seeing the adoption of these coding applications ..."

Aaron Katz

Business logic automation, workflow automation, coding agents

"We're using OpenAI, using Anthropic. We're going to increasingly use open source models to save money... we don't today have a budget constraint on our Anthropic contract. I think we're spending like probably 5 million a year or something. Ramping pretty fa..."

Ryan Petersen

Getting started with AI personal assistants as a non-technical user

"Muse has been number one in the App Store for like the last couple of weeks. So, that one's pretty easy to get and you can just sign up for it. So, I would say probably Muse."

Kevin Rose

Emotional storytelling in animated shorts

"Wow. You know what? I think Muse created the most emotional video... I think Muse did the best job even though the graphics aren't as good as Opus as some of the other options. So, yeah, I think for emotional short, I'm actually going to have to give the aw..."

Peter Yang

Business logic automation, coding agents, workflow automation

"As long as I'm allowed to use OpenAI and Anthropic, then I don't mind at all. Like they deserve it. These things are just incredible, miraculous products. What I worry about is that they cut us off and then we can't use it anymore."

Ryan Petersen

AI agents for personal/business tasks

"I've become on team Sam and OpenAI recently with my agents as my agents have taken control of my life. I've changed my allegiances to some extent."

Jason Lemkin

Sending vendor/manufacturer outreach emails, with Codex browser agent drafting messages inside the app

"I used to let it go into Superhuman and set all of these up for me, but I really want to click the send button before — just to check its work."

Yana Welinder

Email client with high retention due to refined product experience

"If you've used Superhuman, you've likely stayed using Superhuman just because every little element of that product is hyperrefined to make you want to continue using it."

Matt Swulinski

Autocompleting code lines and filling in parameters while writing code

"I think the first thing that really came out was GitHub Copilot and it was like the coolest thing ever because it could autocomplete your lines. When we were writing for loops and you wouldn't know what parameters to put inside as the values, it would liter..."

Kush Bavaria

Agentic coding sessions, code review, running multiple projects simultaneously, used across developer and non-developer teams

"When I look at something like the GitHub Copilot app, I see just as many developers that are using AI every day, running multiple projects, all kinds of agent sessions at the same time. And I see our legal team at GitHub using the GitHub Copilot app or the ..."

Kyle Daigle

Slack-based assistant running automations and routines

"We use Victor in my Slack... Victor is in my Slack and I'm chatting back and forth with Victor. We set up automations. So I actually really, really like the form factor of Victor and how it works with you alongside in Slack."

Liam Ottley

Client deployments and internal company use

"Victor AI and Kylon are the two main ones I've got my eye on right now, and we're trying both extensively for clients and within our own company."

Liam Ottley

"First one that came to mind was AMP. It's out of out of the folks at Source Graph. Their product has a great reputation of just being like, you know, punching way above its weight."

Alexander Bericos

"I fire up AMP and I basically start talking. I use Whisper Flow, love it."

Ryan Carson

Full-time executive assistant support

"I have two of them work for me as my Athena assistants — full-time two Athena assistants like executive assistants — very smart, very hardworking."

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Aggregating content from curated sources like Monocle to find design hotels, restaurants, and travel recommendations

"I was having my Athena assistants last year take Monocle and about 15 other sources where I find things and specific searches I use on those places. I would tell them, 'Hey, aggregate what I'm looking for when I go to Singapore.'"

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