AI agent use cases
Every use case is scored out of 100 for proof, payoff, ease and cost. Filter to what fits you, then copy the prompt.
5 use cases
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Build a multiplayer browser flight sim in hours and sell in-game ads
Pieter Levels, with no game-dev background, prompted Cursor (with Grok and Claude models) to build a Three.js flight simulator in about three hours. Within roughly ten days, sales of ad blimps and paid planes had passed $38,000.
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75
Fill an online shopping cart with Comet, then finish checkout yourself
Android Authority's Karandeep Singh had Comet add pasta ingredients to an Amazon cart in seconds, but it looped for minutes on an item that wasn't sold locally. eMarketer's Grace Harmon saw Comet research and pick boots well, then repeatedly error at checkout.
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67
Move 2,500 marketing pages off a CMS and cut build times from 14 to 4 minutes
Sentry's marketing and growth team, with a couple of developers, used Claude Code to move about 2,500 pages from a headless CMS into Markdown on Astro, folding 200 one-off pages into 3 templates. Builds dropped from about 14 minutes to under 4, and non-engineers now ship pages through Claude skills.
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67
Have an agent code a complex open-source feature unattended for seven hours
Rakuten ML engineer Kenta Naruse gave Claude Code the job of adding an activation vector extraction method to the vLLM library. It worked on its own for seven hours, he wrote no code, and the result matched the reference method with 99.9% numerical accuracy.
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60
Let an AI model play and finish Pokemon Blue live on a stream
Software engineer Joel Zhang built a harness that let Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro play Pokemon Blue on a Twitch stream. The model finished the game after about 37 days, which Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared publicly.