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.
12 use cases
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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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65
Fix a broken vibe-coded app with a debugging prompt
Instead of "it doesn't work", give the coding agent the error, what you expected and what happened, and make it explain the cause before it edits anything.
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64
Build a retro space shooter with a child in about 20 minutes
Product writer Peter Yang and his 7-year-old used Claude Code inside Cursor's terminal to make a 2D vertical space shooter with three levels, boss fights and music, then published it on Vercel.
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62
Generate on-brand Google Ads variations in 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes
Austin Lau, a growth marketer at Anthropic with no coding background, used Claude Code to build a Figma plugin for ad variants and a command that drafts responsive search ads checked against brand and Google Ads rules. Ad creation dropped from about 30 minutes to about 30 seconds.
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62
Ship a solo-made roguelite to Steam Early Access with an AI coding agent
AI researcher Przemek Chojecki used Claude Code with the Godot engine to build Catvivors, a cat-themed survivors-style auto-battler, and released it on Steam Early Access. He describes about two weeks to a fun first level and a few more weeks for content and store setup.
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56
Move a company website off Webflow to a fast static site in under two weeks
Very Good Ventures used Claude Code to move its site, including 204 blog posts and about 1,200 images, from Webflow to Astro on Cloudflare in under two weeks, with agents also writing and running the QA tests. StackOne reported a similar Claude Code rebuild that took new pages from days to 1-2 hours.
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56
Migrate a 22-year WordPress blog with 5,500 posts to a static Hugo site in a day
Investor Brad Feld used Claude Code to export 5,530 posts from WordPress, convert them to Hugo, keep every old URL working and deploy to Vercel. He reports the move took about a day and the site now builds in under a minute.
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Turn repeat WordPress hosting chores into one-command agent skills
Austin Ginder of Anchor Hosting built 22 Claude Code skills that run tasks like site migrations, backups, malware cleanup and plugin patching across about 2,900 WordPress sites. A migration that took 20-30 minutes of hands-on terminal work now starts with one command and runs while he does other things.
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Build a full roguelite bullet-hell game in 10 days with parallel coding agents
Adrian Bigaj of BigDevSoon ran up to eight Claude Code agents, linked to the Unity editor through MCP, to build the 2D roguelite Void Balls in 10 days. The project reached about 29,000 lines of C# with 88 test files, for around $50 a month in AI tools.
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49
Organize thousands of messy files into folders
A coding agent on your computer looks at file names, dates and contents, proposes a folder plan, and moves files only after you approve it.
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43
Have a coding agent write tests for code you already have
Point a coding agent at one module, have it list what the code should do, then write tests for each behavior and run them.