Let Claude drive a Mac to play chess and make notes
A writer gave Claude computer use control of his Mac to play chess and create notes; simple tasks worked, complex ones failed, and usage quota nearly ran out.
Anthropic’s AI model for writing, analysis, coding and agents.
Claude is a family of AI models from Anthropic. It is strong at long documents, careful reasoning, coding and tool use, which makes it a common “brain” inside agent workflows built with n8n, Zapier, Make or custom code.

A writer gave Claude computer use control of his Mac to play chess and create notes; simple tasks worked, complex ones failed, and usage quota nearly ran out.
The poster has Claude act as an automation engineer, doing design and research work and finding related docs and indexes for their job.
The poster gives Claude work tasks and has it implement most of the functionality, though the last 10% still takes the most time.
Claude via the Chrome extension scheduled 60 generated short videos in YouTube Studio after suggesting the task itself.
The author had a swarm of Claude agents run 4,654 searches to catalog AI bot names and analyze naming trends by gender, industry and year.
A trader runs 11 Grok Bot agents, each with one job and a scope document, with a Red Team agent that must approve a trade first.
A CrewAI crew checks 50 competitor pages, changelogs and news sources every week and sends a short brief covering only what changed.
A commenter runs Claude against their store to check delayed orders, stalled tracking, and stock issues; the poster is connecting an assistant via MCP.
An autonomous Ad Agent built on the Claude Agent SDK finds competitors, analyzes their ads, generates on-brand creatives and packages a shareable report.
Poster used Claude to rebuild their retirement portfolio and test sequence-of-returns risk by inserting past bear markets into growth paths.
An AI agent built on Claude and GPT cancels orders, tracks shipments, creates return labels and processes refunds for Shopify merchants' support tickets (vendor listing).
A Claude-powered scraper agent monitors competitor sites hourly, pulling pricing, company details and contacts into Google Sheets, replacing manual research.
A poster built a platform where agents, including a SellerBot, handle listings, pricing strategy and buyer inquiries, built with Claude as the coding assistant.
A consultant built a Claude agent that reads support Gmail, looks up orders, applies refund policy, drafts replies for human approval and creates triage records with optional Slack alerts.
The poster built payment infrastructure so Claude could complete a game purchase on its own when told to, in about 60 seconds.
An agent scans Apollo.io and job boards twice daily for ICP-matching prospects, scores leads, writes 3-email sequences with Claude, sends follow-ups, and pauses on replies with human approval.
A commenter has Claude plan events minute by minute with menus, and act as a personal shopper comparing prices, return policies and shipping costs across sites.
A writer built a scheduled Claude agent using Gmail and Calendar connectors to draft replies and add invites to the calendar.