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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

Coding changes to Native Note, delegated through a Grokbot dev bot

"One thing that's really cool about Grokbot is they're making the Cursor integration much more seamless. So if you go up here and click on your Native Note dev, you can actually see this little coding tab in the details. And if you click on this, it actually..."

Riley Brown

Prototyping design variations in code; editing internal tools; writing PRs from investigations via Nacho

"You can ask Cursor, hey, I have this brief text. Can you go put this in the notification that appears in the top right of the screen before a meeting, and can you also put it in the bottom of the screen, and in the floating transcription indicator? Do all t..."

Sam Stephenson

Accessing AI agents for clients inside team chat

"I actually set up this kind of Slack-based AI agent for my clients all the time. It's a really, really good way of accessing your AI agents, and this is awesome to see OpenAI moving into this category and making the agents and dots accessible within Slack."

Liam Ottley

Team communication, messaging AI agents in channels

"Because I've connected my Slack plugin into the ChatGPT app, my Dot can fully control my Slack. You can send people like John on my team a message."

Riley Brown

Publishing political analysis newsletters, particularly one called 'The Escalation Trap'

"My Substacks, especially the escalation trap, because I'm going to be talking about the domestic escalation trap."

Robert Pape

Content distribution; one of GaryVee's active posting platforms

"There's Substack, which I'm obsessed with. I think it's becoming more like Twitter and Instagram."

GaryVee

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

Launching niche accounts to get organic views without needing followers

"I started a TikTok account called You're Somebody Now as the name of the handle, @yoursomebodynow. The first post I posted on that account with zero followers was a slight edit on the video that did well for me... That video with zero followers got 8.2 mill..."

GaryVee

Posting content and building audience; demonstrating that content finds its audience regardless of follower count

"I have 15 million followers on TikTok, right? My latest post on TikTok right there has 25,000 views, right? You see it? Now, I'm starting a new account where I'm just going around TikTok and I'm replying to people."

GaryVee

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

Accepting payments and managing subscriptions for the OnlyWaivers SaaS app

"It will use a Stripe API for payment. Connect Stripe. Replit already has my Stripe API. I can now accept payments."

Chris Koerner

Handling subscription monetization for apps built on Replit; abstracting payment setup complexity for non-technical builders

"We have this deep partnership with Stripe where we've abstracted away all of the complexity. The user doesn't have to go sign up for Stripe, do the KYC upfront, figure out what a plan is. All of that is taken care of — we set up a Stripe sandbox in the back..."

Amol Jain

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

Building and deploying products to production, creating presentations, ideation, pricing page changes, prototyping, and day-to-day work management

"I live in Lovable all day long with ship to production through Lovable. I create this deck with Lovable, I do all of my ideation with Lovable, I do my calendar, my email, everything management with Lovable. I build and change pricing page, I build prototype..."

Elena Verna

Building internet/web software

"Now Lovable — we're actually building internet software with it."

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Client acquisition for AI agencies, building reputation through low-cost early projects

"Going on to Upwork is a good route in if you're willing to grind and put in six months on Upwork, and really work your way up, build your reputation, do stuff for cheap or very, very low cost."

Liam Ottley

Getting first clients for AI freelancing or agency work

"Upwork is not a bad place to start. If you are looking to try to get your first couple clients, some people had a really good run on Upwork as well. You can take those onto Upwork. Put your price really, really low. Make sure you've got a good profile pictu..."

Liam Ottley

Deploying and hosting the app

"I have all my projects right now in Vercel, so I'm going to go ahead and deploy the app to Vercel too... You can always go to Vercel and sign up for an account, and the first couple websites you publish is free. So you don't even have to pay any money to ho..."

Peter Yang

Accessing Jev immediately without waiting for the waitlist

"If you want instant access to Jev, you can go to the Vercel gateway and they have Jev available on it right away. So you can just instantly start testing it out. They've added some stuff into their AI package so you can start messing around with it."

Ryan Vogel

Building a pitch deck for the Andreessen Horowitz Academy

"I built the pitch deck in Replit, thank you. And I've been using Claude and ChatGPT. I'm using all of these services as a way to speed up my work."

Gagan Biyani

Building autonomous agents and software for a small team, running 10-20 hours per day

"The biggest change for our little tiny team of two and a half humans is we run Replit between me and Amelia. We run it 20 hours a day now. When we started the show, it didn't quite work. At the end of last year, the models got better, and it'd be like an ho..."

Jason Lemkin

Creating graphics for LinkedIn Live series promotions

"Find cool people to talk to. Do a little graphic in Canva. Wham, Riverside FM studio or whatever. It's recorded. It's on LinkedIn."

Sheri Fitts

Designing ads for sandwich boards, now primarily used for editing AI-generated images.

"All you need is Canva to make the ads. And you don't even have to sign up for that subscription until you've sold an advertiser spot. We'll either do Canva or ChatGPT. Canva is kind of phasing out a little bit. We just do that if something needs edited that..."

Rachel Smith

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

Accessing non-natively supported AI models (DeepSeek V4 Pro, Gemini 3.7 Flash) inside Cursor IDE

"I'm using this via Open Router. If you were to sign up for Open Router and just ask Cursor how to set it up, you get it set up in like 2 minutes inside Cursor."

Riley Brown

Dynamically selecting the cheapest AI model provider based on uptime, data retention, and pricing

"Go on OpenRouter. What OpenRouter does is you pick Kimi, Sacks, and then you get all the providers there. And then you pick which provider you want based on uptime and data retention and other issues and you can dynamically pick the lowest one."

Jason Calacanis

Selling Bankroll Coffee online.

"What's funny is that Shopify actually sponsors quite a bit of our podcast. They're fantastic. It's how I sold Bankroll Coffee in the beginning."

Graham Stephan

Running an e-commerce store with dedicated sourcing, developer, and email agents managing product research and store operations

"I've got a separate Grok Bot account that I pay the $200 for because I'm so crazy about keeping the context separate and it's just Shopify. I'm training it to use the Shopify developer tools and to source products. Grok Bot does an outstanding job of resear..."

Billy Howell