Oct 18GitHub8 accounts
Gathin23 had Claude Code connect to a Google TV over ADB, disable the ad-laden stock apps and build and install a minimal tvOS-style home screen in an afternoon.
Real things people got AI agents to do, found across the web every hour by usecases.sh
Each one links to where the person said it, says how it went, and comes with a prompt you can try.
11 in the newest batch · 317 in all · scanned every hour
Oct 14Reddit4 accounts
A Redditor used Claude Code to comb NASA TESS light curves, found a 3.18-day transit signal on a star 116 light-years away across three years of data, and got an approved TESS observing proposal to test it.
Oct 21openai.com4 accounts
OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research split a whole-brain CRISPR dataset across thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents and got a linked reasoning atlas with new disease leads in 32 minutes.
Nov 1Reddit3 accounts
A finance research firm asked Anthropic whether non-experts could tackle a health problem. A research model ran for 64 hours on four prompts, generated 318,484 protein designs, and 17 of the 211 lab-tested ones bound.
Oct 30the-decoder.com3 accounts
Gabriel Ocana-Santero gave Claude Sonnet 5 a motorised surgical rig and 19 gene therapies; it picked a drug and brain target for an epileptic mouse and did the injection, with a vet approving each step.
Oct 21anthropic.com3 accounts
Anthropic researchers ran Claude over 25 open source projects and it found 493 cases of code reachable when it should not be, including about 4,500 lines of pre-auth ML-DSA code in OpenSSH.
Oct 14businessinsider.com3 accounts
XMTP Labs CEO Shane Mac gave a Grok Bot CFO agent read-only access to his bank accounts for a monthly audit; the first monthly report landed in his company Slack executive channel instead of his private group.
SlackOct 27Reddit2 accounts
A Redditor gave Claude Code one prompt and a logo image, and it built, rigged and rendered a 1,440-frame 3D mascot film in headless Blender, using about 10% of a weekly $200 plan.
Oct 15Reddit2 accounts
A Home Assistant user had Claude migrate their YAML dashboards to animated HTML pages with energy, camera and lyrics views in one weekend; a second user wired a Figma design to HA with Claude.
Home AssistantOct 27Reddit2 accounts
A part-owner of an HVAC controls firm runs about 24 Grok Bot agents that file both inboxes, write QuickBooks purchase orders, log 2,100 building alarms and track household money.
Gmail
Google Calendar
QuickBooks
DropboxOct 15Reddit2 accounts
A Redditor had Claude rebuild Neo's apartment from The Matrix in Blender over MCP, with no image-to-3D tools, in about five part-time days on a $20 plan.
NewNov 4theregister.com2 accounts
Revolut moved about 2,000 engineers from capped Claude Code and Codex budgets to self-hosted GLM on 56 B200 GPUs, cutting inference cost about 90% and reporting 60% faster coding time.
JiraOct 30pub.towardsai.net2 accounts
Data consultant Kenny Peeters gave Claude Code one Markdown file per topic plus commands for ideas, mail digests and sprint planning, so a session now starts with one sentence instead of five minutes of context.
Outlook Mail
Outlook CalendarOct 29labs.ycombinator.com2 accounts
YC Labs and Olam Labs put 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents in a survival Minecraft world for 3 hours; they sent about 5,900 messages, died 34 times and ended up running a food ration office.
Oct 21blog.trailofbits.com2 accounts
Trail of Bits had Codex agents re-check over 130 of its merged open-source security patches; they flagged 58 possible regressions, of which engineers confirmed 21.
Oct 19techcrunch.com2 accounts
Gathin T. gave Claude Code his parents' TV model number; it found the set on Wi-Fi, removed 25 Xiaomi packages and wrote a new home screen with only their apps.
Oct 16claude.dev2 accounts
The Claude Code team at Anthropic routes every PR through Claude review, security checks and risk-tiered human approval; merged PRs more than doubled from June to September while reverts fell over 40 percent.
GitHubOct 14cockroachlabs.com2 accounts
Two Cockroach Labs engineers ran a pipeline of role-playing Claude agents on their MOLT migration tool; Db2 support landed in under two days for $4,172 of tokens, against nine months for Oracle in 2024.
Oct 14agent-wow.sh2 accounts
The agent-wow author gave Codex on GPT-6 Astra one prompt, create an orc and finish every starting-zone quest, on a private WotLK server; it mined the server SQL for quest data and finished in 40 minutes with no deaths.
Oct 14momo5502.com2 accounts
Maurice Heumann ran up to 16 Claude Code and Codex agents for three months, coordinated over GitHub issues and Discord, and reports 99% of an old shooter's functions reconstructed, 83% of them byte-exact.
Discord