DataEight Sleep, the sleep tech company, had a small data team buried in quick requests like sales by channel or why a number looked wrong. It added Devin to a Slack channel where anyone can…
DataKevin Yang, a researcher who builds data pipelines and figures for papers, used Claude Code for the analysis on one of his papers. He estimates it wrote over 98% of the code. He works wit…
DataBronson Elliott, a data analyst for about 30 years, wanted his routine of cleaning, analysis, charts and write ups automated without coding. He first used an idea generator agent to turn…
DevOpsJordan Fulghum had long wanted to self host but found the setup work no fun. He bought a Beelink mini PC for about $379, installed Ubuntu Server and Tailscale, and put Claude Code on the…
DevOpsAnand Rathnas moved his URL shortener jo4.io off AWS, where it cost about $120 a month, to a DigitalOcean setup costing about $44. He started at 6 AM and finished by 10 with live traffic…
DevOpsAn engineering manager posting on Hacker News as SeanAnderson oversees teams on legacy systems more than ten years old. One team's main branch passed CI only about 40% of the time because…
DevOpsDeveloper Flavio Copes runs a small DigitalOcean server for his self hosted newsletter app. When Claude Code kept getting killed seconds after launch on that box, he ran Codex CLI on his…
ProductivityJarvis Specter, who runs five businesses and gets 80 to 150 emails a day, gave an OpenClaw agent named Donna three of his inboxes for 30 days. Every half hour it filed each message as urg…
OperationsEamonn Cottrell had used Claude Code to build a tool that reads vendor PDF invoices, sorts the items and creates matching invoices in QuickBooks Online, despite no prior experience with Q…
OperationsFarooq Shabbir runs a small dev consultancy and wrote on dev.to about an OpenClaw agent he calls Claw-Ops. The agent lives on a Mac Mini that never sleeps, uses Claude, and reports to him…
MarketingRinako, who leads global growth at the Japanese startup Rimo, spent two weeks testing Claude in Chrome on real work. For a US launch she gave it a Semrush keyword list and asked for a cam…
SupportAT&T replaced its old flow chart call routing with AI. Mark Austin, its VP of data science and AI, compared the old setup to a barista who never remembers your order. BigQuery now reads a…
SupportTELUS Digital, the IT arm of Canadian telecom TELUS, rebuilt its contact center on Google Cloud. It fields over 22 million customer calls a year across chat, voice and video. Call data no…
ResearchTech journalist Joanna Stern wrote that the Comet AI browser now does most of what her reporting assistant did for her book on AI. In one task she asked it to find LinkedIn posts from peo…
MarketingMatt C. Milne, who has run Facebook ads since 2008, shared an X thread on an agent that manages one client's account. Each morning at 7 it pulls every campaign and ad, compares what is li…
MarketingDeveloper advocate Debbie O'Brien described setting up a Grok Bot agent for LinkedIn on her blog. The agent first studied her past posts so drafts would sound like her. She signed in to L…
ContentEugeniya Ivanova, who works on the Publora scheduling tool, wrote on dev.to about a skill that reads her past posts and suggests three angles for the next one. It pulls history through th…
MarketingAltbozon, the solo maker of the TransApp mobile app, spent May to September 2026 running marketing out of an AI coding agent working in a git repo. Voice and design files set rules for ev…
MarketingWilbert Kramer, who writes the Decode: AI newsletter, built a Claude Cowork skill for a job that has him recording video interviews with customers. He drops a folder with a short brief, t…
MarketingAnthropic's own growth marketing function is one person without an engineering background. Anthropic describes in its report on internal teams how that person uses Claude Code. A workflow…
MarketingDeveloper Alexander Opalic tested Claude Code as an SEO auditor on NuxtPapier, a Nuxt blog starter he maintains. He connected the Puppeteer MCP server so the agent could open the running…
SalesLogan Robison spent a few hours setting up Grok Bot for his home service business. He connected it to his phone system. It now listens to each call, posts a summary to the team Slack chan…
SalesElvis Rigglet (@rassailor), who works in sales, gave his Grok Bot a single spoken request: log an order, move it to October, and book the commission on the ship date. The bot found the pr…
SalesGrant Harvey and The Neuron team ran OpenAI's Operator through real sales tasks and reported what held up. Competitor pricing research worked best: it visited pricing pages, built a compa…