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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

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..."

This Week in Startups

Automated nightly security vulnerability scanning of codebase — runs from 2am to 5am on cheap spot compute after each PR

"We essentially launch — it's Kimi K3 right now, but it's whatever open-source frontier model that doesn't require security checks — and we ask it to hack into the codebase and try to figure out vulnerabilities in the code. It's essentially free because we'r..."

Kush Bavaria

Used as a default model inside Cursor within Buzz for agent tasks

"Kimi K3 is the best out of all three of the new models, but it's also the most expensive. I highly recommend trying it out."

Riley Brown

Cost-efficient task execution in Cursor; near-free Google Sheets creation and general agent tasks

"DeepSeek V4 Flash is probably the most interesting because for certain tasks it is 105 times cheaper than Claude. I highly recommend trying these models. This model is 20 to 100 times cheaper depending on the task."

Riley Brown

AI assistant access while traveling in China

"When I'm in China for two weeks, it's DeepSeek and Gemini. Those are my friends. DeepSeek is intentionally crippled in China. It's not as good as it is here. It can't search the web and it is trained on different data as near as I can tell."

Jason Lemkin

Cost-effective AI inference with a proper harness/orchestration layer

"MiniMax is just mindbendingly good. Five to ten times less the cost. It needs a good harness though."

Farbood Nivi

Exploring affordable open-source model alternatives for AI development

"I've been playing around with the MiniMax models and a bunch of others and they're pretty good. They're really cheap and they're pretty good."

Ankit Gupta

"I ask it to use Nano Banana Pro and I gave it the API key for that specific image generation model to my OpenClaw."

Jesse Genet

"I made that book image in Nano Banana Pro, removed the background in Canva"

James Dickerson

Creating 'impossible documentaries' of Star Wars planets — generating scripts, directing video generation, and orchestrating audio

"In the last few weeks, I've been obsessed with Qwen 3 8B. It's very good at long horizon tasks, and it's actually really creative. It's a great storyteller. So, I've been using it to create these impossible documentaries, mostly of planets in the Star Wars ..."

Anish Acharya

Reading Twitter and Reddit 24/7 to look for market signals and customer pain points

"You can run mid-size good models like Qwen 36 pretty quickly on the DGX Spark, which is nice. Quinn 36, which is not quite as smart as GLM, I can have that reading Twitter and Reddit all day just looking for signal. That's a very simple thing to find."

Alex Finn

"We're going to use Flux 2 Pro. It's a very good just like general model to use for a bunch of stuff."

Suraya Shivji

"We're going to do Ideogram. Super cool model. It's really good at typography, honestly. It's like amazing."

Suraya Shivji

Motion control for creating anthropomorphic animal exercise videos

"I found that Cling is the model that works best for these videos. Fun fact, Higgsfield was down a couple weekends ago and I was fiending for more video creation. So I went and downloaded Cling separately and it didn't make videos that were as good as Cling ..."

Bryce Rattner Keithley

"With GPT o1 thinking, I had it teach me the ordinal numbers and it was basically error-free. I only use thinking now even for the most basic queries because I want to have the correct answer."

Nivi Elroy