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Keep a resident desktop agent for research notes and blog work
Raj Chettri runs Nous Research's Hermes Agent on his desktop for scheduled research summaries, note filing, quick scripts and his blog's writing pipeline.
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AI Use Cases
Real jobs people get done with AI agents, each tied to its original source, an honest outcome label, a prompt you can edit, and the GitHub repositories involved.
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Rebuild a side project in OpenCode to test provider lock-in
Matthew Brunelle rebuilt a YouTube Music to OpenSubsonic shim with OpenCode and Kimi K2.6 to compare it with an earlier Claude Code and Opus 4.6 attempt.
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Turn a feature idea into a spec, plan and tasks before coding
Use Spec Kit's slash commands to have a coding agent write a spec, a technical plan and a task list, then implement against them.
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Generate a narrated short video from a single topic
Give MoneyPrinterTurbo a topic and let it write a script, pick stock footage, add voice-over, subtitles and music, and render a video.
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Let an AI agent complete a multi-step task in a real browser
Describe a web task in plain language and let Browser Use drive a Chromium browser to finish it and return structured output.
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Run a multi-agent research debate on a stock ticker
Have TradingAgents' analyst, researcher, trader and risk roles analyse one ticker on one date and produce a reasoned report.
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Transcribe and translate recordings locally with Whisper
Use OpenAI Whisper on your own machine to transcribe audio in many languages or translate speech into English text.
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Build a self-hosted AI agent workflow with human approval
Use n8n's visual canvas to wire an LLM agent to your apps, add tools and memory, and pause for human approval before it acts.
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Convert PDFs and Office files to Markdown for an LLM
Run MarkItDown on PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and Excel files to get structure-preserving Markdown an LLM can read cheaply.
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Crawl a docs site into clean Markdown for a RAG index
Use Firecrawl to map and crawl a website, returning each page as Markdown or structured JSON ready to chunk and embed.
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Run an open-weight model locally and call it from your code
Install Ollama, pull an open model and call it through the local REST API so prompts stay on your machine.
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Ship a non-trivial app feature over many short agent sessions
Mitchell Hashimoto built Ghostty's unobtrusive macOS update notifications with the Amp agent over 16 sessions, rewriting and reviewing parts by hand before merging.
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Let an assistant test QA tickets in a browser via Playwright MCP
Peter Eysermans connected Claude Desktop to Playwright and GitHub MCP servers so it could walk through features from tickets, report results and draft reusable tests.
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Run unattended ML training experiments with autoresearch
Red Hat's Roy Belio containerized Karpathy's autoresearch on OpenShift AI with H100 GPUs and let Claude Code run 198 training experiments over 24 hours.
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Run a self-hosted personal assistant on a spare Mac
Federico Viticci ran OpenClaw (then called Clawdbot) on an M4 Mac mini with Claude Opus 4.5 over Telegram for briefings, smart-home control and small automations.
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Prepare a tax return with an agent and compare it to an accountant
Kyle Corbitt worked through his 2025 US taxes with Codex, which researched rules, gathered documents and wrote a custom tax engine while a paid accountant did the same return.
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Trial spec-driven development with spec-kit on an existing app
Birgitta Böckeler tried GitHub's spec-kit workflow with Copilot in VS Code on a mid-sized dashboard feature and found the process heavy for the size of the task.
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Audit kernel code for use-after-free bugs with a reasoning model
Sean Heelan benchmarked OpenAI o3 on a known ksmbd bug, then ran it across the SMB handlers, where it surfaced a new Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2025-37899.
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Port a Python library to JavaScript with a coding agent
Simon Willison had Codex CLI translate the JustHTML parser into a dependency-free JavaScript library, steering it with about eight prompts over one afternoon.