Real AI agent use cases, with sources and setup prompts
People who wired agents into their TV, lights, watch, phone line and desk hardware, each linked to the original post. 13 matching use cases below, each with a public source.
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Connect your agent to Home Assistant via MCP and route automations that need judgement through it; talk to it with an ESP32 voice device.
His TV showed an ad before he could even open Netflix, so he let Claude Code talk to it from his Mac. One evening later the ads and sponsored rows were gone, and every change can be reversed. He published a step-by-step guide plus the mistakes that cost him an hour.
His TV had become unbearably slow, so he spent an afternoon with Claude Code connected to it. It disabled 25 preinstalled bloat apps, replaced the 192 MB stock launcher with a custom 83 MB one and added rotating wallpapers.
With no earphones or phone mount on his two-wheeler, a builder used Claude Code to reverse-engineer a cheap boAt smartwatch's Bluetooth protocol so Google Maps turns arrive on his wrist as dots and dashes.
A maker built a physical voice interface for his own AI agent on an ESP32, powered by Hermes Agent from Nous Research, and documented the build in a 16-part thread.
A user's parents had an old Android TV that was slow and full of ads. Claude cleaned it up and built them a new home screen from scratch; he shared the exact steps and the prompt to do it on your own TV.
The author combined Linux, Hermes Agent, a ChatGPT subscription and Signal into a personal Jarvis with separate chats per job and a restricted bot the whole family can use.
His agent sat stuck at 3 a.m. waiting for approval while he slept, so a developer built a pink ESP32 desk box that shouts at him in Shanghainese when an agent finishes, fails or needs a yes.
A user gave his Grok Bot its own phone number. It answers calls, takes messages and gives him the rundown afterward.
He gave Hermes Agent full control of his house, going beyond turning lights on to handling real household tasks, and published a full video walkthrough of the setup.
Grok Bot found when the phone number was first opened, tracked down the lists it probably leaked from (mostly insurance quote sites) and drafted removal requests to each one.
The author's Hermes Agent coordinates coding agents, works in their logged-in browser, finds flights and keeps a sales board current, with human approval at set points.
Had Grok Bot go through public sites and request removal of his email and phone number.
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