Use cases

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bschoepke reports using Codex through an Ableton MCP bridge to create a song, then revise MIDI instruments, vocal timing, fills and mix dynamics.

Codexvia Codex CLI

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Remigiusz Samborski used Gemini CLI and Conductor to build a RAG migration reference architecture through approved plans, Terraform changes, tests and recorded checkpoints.

Geminivia Gemini CLI with Conductor

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João Pedro Silva Setas reports using eight GitHub Copilot custom agents for company operations, producing social content and tracking deadlines while exposing shared-memory corruption.

GitHub Copilot

Jake Saunders reports that Hermes created a calorie tracker repository, passed CI and deployed the app and Postgres on his home server, then fixed a CSRF bug after feedback.

Hermes Agent

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Vivek V. reports that an OpenClaw agent parsed forwarded vendor emails, found and followed unsubscribe links and cleared 47 lists in two weeks without personal mailbox access.

OpenClaw

Sharbel Ayyoub reports giving Grok Bot an exported personal context file and requesting a team. It produced five named specialists, assigned weekday schedules and added a consolidated chief-of-staff brief.

Grok Bot

lifehacker.dev

Lifehacker.dev describes Grok Bot locating its repository, reading writing rules and backlog through GitHub, then drafting the article itself when a Cloud Agent launch was blocked by the plan.

Grok Bot

arxiv.org

Marwan Gebran and Ian Bentley describe a supervised Grok Bot research team that checked CondGen evaluations, flagged a scaler mismatch and a magnesium diagnostic, and coordinated figures and manuscript material.

Grok Bot

quanta-bits-newsletter.beehiiv.com

Quanta's operator reports that Book Advisor gathered their notes after they finished Other Minds, asked Codex to write the final entry and saved it in Obsidian.

Grok Bot

sudheerpaturi.com

Sudheer Paturi reports replacing his manual brand checks and Excel log with AEO Tracker, a Grok Bot routine that checks queries every Friday, records results in Notion and sends a summary.

Grok Bot

thegadgetflow.com

Gadget Flow's Grigor Baklajyan reports using Hark to check his remaining Amazon subscriptions and sort Gmail PR senders. It found only Prime with its renewal date and archived inbox clutter.

Hark

fastcompany.com

Fast Company's Nate Berg reports that Hark noticed an oil change due in his email before a trip and handled the booking process, with Berg supplying one identifying detail and selecting an appointment slot.

Hark

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All seven audited URLs failed at least one check, including a missing H1, meta-description problems, and overlong titles.

Claudevia Claude API (Sonnet)

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The author reports AI calls dropping from 7,200 per day to about 960 and daily token costs changing from $8–$52 to $3–$10. No trading-return improvement is reported.

Hermes Agent

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The author published dev-workflows v0.1 on npm with six commands, three editor bridges, six rule blocks, and 54+ passing tests.

Claudevia Claude Code

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The author obtained a public token-authenticated URL that flashes office lights red, with a correction to restore the previous color.

Claudevia Claude Code

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The author reports replacing a careful five-minute release ritual with one command and a diff review.

Codex

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The system runs in production on the author’s ioBroker server, picks up new episodes on schedule, and found eleven timestamped open questions in its latest run.

Cursorvia Cursor Projects

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The author found routine edits fast but reported a half-applied migration, failing tests, and JSON debugging that needed tighter steering. They retained Claude alongside the new default.

Cursorvia Grok 4.5

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The author reports deploying the revived React/Redux application to Fly.io with player analytics, season support, game-based stats, filtering, and a clearer demo experience.

Codexvia Turtle AI repository-scoped skills

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The author reports a working flight, hotel, and itinerary prototype, approximately 25% fewer repeated tool executions, and configuration prepared for Cloud Run deployment.

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The author obtained a working hotspot editor for scrollable images, with movable and deletable boxes, and demonstrated JSON-backed hotspots in the game; resizing remained missing.

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The author reports that Claude Code avoided reintroducing users.card_token and retried the charge off_session using a saved Stripe PaymentMethod.

Claudevia Claude Code with Selvedge

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The author reports that Claude produced complete Tetris with all seven pieces, rotation, line clearing, level progression, and a self-playing demo mode.

Claudevia Claude Opus 4.5 via GitHub Copilot