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2026.10.26

One request, and an AI agent taps the phone screen itself to get into Uber and insurance apps it couldn't reach before

These are PhoneUse's own demos, released with its launch. Most of the phones in the videos are iPhones, but what plugs straight into Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex over MCP today is a cloud Android phone that PhoneUse rents out. No user results have been published yet, but the launch post passed 2.51 million views in five days. We gathered the demos and how people reacted.

PhoneUse · 4 cases

Main image from the Claude Duet product page

2026.10.23

Give Claude a task and turn off your computer. It keeps working.

Claude Duet · 3 cases

Ideogram's 96-second launch video on YouTube, 'Introducing Ideogram Vector: Frontier AI Vector Design'

2026.10.23

Describe a logo in words, get back an SVG where every color and shape is editable

Ideogram Vector 1.0 · 2 cases

$1.60 to give a live service a brand-new logo

Jangho Hwang, a Berlin developer who runs several services · X

Ideogram Vector 1.0See the reference

Video

Claude opened the app and shot the screens itself. A couple of revisions later, the 90-second demo was on the website

Ben van Sprundel (Ben AI), founder of the AI agency behind the note app Balda · YouTube. The same video promotes the company's own paid course and an ElevenLabs affiliate link

Claude MotionSee the reference

Insights2026.10.23

Big employers are asking less for people who use AI and more for people who build with it

Workday reviewed 11 months of job requisitions from 554 large employers. Requirements for using AI tools fell 25% after peaking in January 2026. Requirements for building AI into work rose 51% from September 2025. The data can't tell us why demand for using AI fell.

Research & analysis

A product manager with no astronomy training found a planet candidate with AI and won time on a NASA telescope

Pavel Rabtsevich, a product manager in Spain with no astronomy training · X, Reddit (an account that posts about using Claude Code and Codex)

Finding new candidates in public science data with a coding agentSee the reference

Video

One 25-minute podcast episode in, one finished cut out, with intro, captions, and b-roll

Anthony Dupont-Cinko, who makes the podcast Talk Nerdy at AI adoption consultancy Tenex · X, Tenex blog

HyperFrames StudioSee the reference

Research & analysis

One overnight pass over 4.35 million Dutch East India Company pages turned up rhinos and eruptions no list had recorded

Jesse Waites, software engineer in Boston · personal blog. Waites's post introducing Antiquity presents this project as a case study and carries a notice for JTPCK, a company that takes on custom AI document analysis work. Waites's relationship to JTPCK has not been disclosed.

Searching old archives with AI agentsSee the reference

Admin & support

Handed over just last year's application PDFs, and the AI operated Hancom Office itself to fill in this year's grant application

Manufacturing business owner · YouTube channel Autofrog (runs AI automation courses)

ChatGPT Computer UseSee the reference

Video

He edited one Short by hand as a model, and the AI repeated that edit across the remaining 1,168

Video editor David Shutt · runs a Resolve tutorial channel on YouTube

DaVinci Resolve AI AssistantSee the reference

Development

Three plain-language requests, and Claude Code got a usage bar above its input box

Three Claude Code users · the same Reddit thread

Claude Code ModsSee the reference

Video

He only decided what went into each scene, and the AI came back with a launch video that drew 120,000 views

Leo, the 15-year-old developer behind Social SDK

HyperFramesSee the reference

Development

It reported the failed deploy first, and an hour later sent word on its own that the next one had succeeded

André Prado, a Brazilian developer with an AI course business · sells courses

OpenAI DotsSee the reference

Admin & support

Muse messaged several sellers in German and talked the price down, while the human just picked one and paid

Sakthi Kumar, a software engineer in Munich · YouTube (invite code in the description)

Meta MuseSee the reference

Design

The plain approach swapped out an app screen's icons, while PIX carried over even the icons exactly

Working Reference · home screen design for a coffee-ordering app (mobile)

PIXSee the reference

Insights2026.10.19

Banks want lower legal fees because of AI. Law firms' billable hours went up instead

Big banks say AI has sped up legal work and want lower fees. Yet law firm billed hours rose 4.2% in the first half of 2026, more than double the usual pace. Firms are counting AI learning time toward internal targets, and clients like AT&T are moving work in-house, changing what the negotiation is about.

Development

For a card statement analysis app, it first asked whether to keep the originals, then pushed payments back until the value was proven

Silicon Valley Developer, a Korean-language coding instructor · course practice project (YouTube)

grill-meSee the reference

Research & analysis

It started with one line, "I need a paper-search skill," and ended with a stranger's broken skill fixed on the spot and the papers found

Claude Code研究所 (Claude Code Lab), a Japanese account that runs Claude Code training · X

find-skillsSee the reference

Video

The product video they kept putting off took one sentence and 15 minutes

Operator of the online course platform learnfrom.co · Reddit

Claude OpusSee the reference

Writing & docs

A one-line request moved 97 posts from Brunch to a Naver blog

Marketer with 15 years in the field · runs the Korean newsletter Growth Notes for Go-Getters

AsideSee the reference

Research & analysis

Handed over 500 emails, and in 25 seconds it picked out only the ones that need a reply

Creator Riley Brown · his own inbox

JevSee the reference

Video

A promo video for a whole month's events: here's what they made with Claude

AI and automation instructor Alexandre Kantjas · LinkedIn. The post promotes events at the 9x Community, which Alexandre runs

Claude MotionSee the reference

Research & analysis

Copying a stranger's planet hunt turned up two more Earth-size candidates that no catalog listed

Thick_Ad_9875, a Reddit user who wrote "im not an astronomer" · Reddit, Zenodo

Finding new candidates in public science data with a coding agentSee the reference

Video

One workshop landing page in, a complete promo video out

Matt Farmer, a creator who runs paid workshops on AI video editing · YouTube

HyperFrames StudioSee the reference

Research & analysis

The dodo record had a five-year gap. AI dug through old records and found a 1615 hunt inside it

Benjamin Breen, associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz · Res Obscura (Substack)

Searching old archives with AI agentsSee the reference

Video

The AI ran Premiere itself to edit a YouTube video delivered to a paying client

Kang In-hwan, YouTube agency owner · runs a paid AI editing community

ChatGPT Computer UseSee the reference

Insights2026.10.19

Robots can do a lot of work. They're cheaper than people for just 0.3% of it

Anthropic used Claude to go through 19,000 tasks across about 900 US occupations, one by one. Measured by total US work hours, robots can do 34% of work, mostly in dedicated spaces like factories. By the same measure, they are cheaper than people for just 0.3%. Even if robot costs fall 3% a year, it would take about 40 years for robots to be cheaper across 10% of total work hours.

Development

With five chat windows open, alerts used to get lost; now they say which window is waiting on you

A developer running five chat sessions at once · released under the account of observability company Fixter

Claude Code ModsSee the reference

Video

Asked for reels from four hours of treatment footage, and the AI picked the usable moments and cut them into vertical reels

The same editor, David Shutt · client: an aesthetic treatment educator

DaVinci Resolve AI AssistantSee the reference

Writing & docs

Asked to prepare materials and an email for a client, it stopped right before sending and waited for review

Clay Lehman, a consultant to property management companies

OpenAI DotsSee the reference

Video

Hand it a PR, and the AI comes back with a 30-second explainer video for that feature

Alem Tuzlak, maintainer of the open-source TanStack AI

HyperFramesSee the reference

Admin & support

A friend trying AI for the first time just connected their inbox, cancelled one subscription and got a $304 refund notice

A friend new to AI · from a video by AI educator Allie K. Miller

Meta MuseSee the reference

Design

Handed a recruiting site's hero design, PIX put even the portrait photo and the purple search bar right where the design had them

Working Reference · landing page design for a recruiting site (desktop)

PIXSee the reference

Video

Asked for a hand-drawn collage style and stepped away; came back to a 52-second app explainer that cost $4

Developer of the event invite app Friendr.nl · 1,278 Reddit upvotes

Claude OpusSee the reference

Design

Added one sentence to the end of a request for a guesthouse website, and the AI started by asking about everything I hadn't decided yet

Sage, who runs a private-house rental for foreign guests · GPTers, a Korean AI community

grill-meSee the reference

Admin & support

Asked AI to handle 17 overdue Coupang Eats reviews, and it replied to each in the owner's own voice

YouTuber Auto Lee Wansung · a friend's delivery restaurant account

AsideSee the reference

Design

Just asked for a good web-design skill, and got five candidates compared by install count, with the official one recommended

Guillermo Casaus, cofounder of an AI automation agency · X

find-skillsSee the reference

Insights2026.09.27

Coding agents got so good that Shopify now builds every app twice: once for iOS, once for Android

Shopify has built its mobile apps from a single codebase since 2020, and now it is rewriting them separately for iOS and Android. Coding agents cut the cost of writing everything twice, so Shopify's focus has moved from the amount of code to the time it takes to check what the AI built.

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One request, and an AI agent taps the phone screen itself to get into Uber and insurance apps it couldn't reach before

Give Claude a task and turn off your computer. It keeps working.

Describe a logo in words, get back an SVG where every color and shape is editable

$1.60 to give a live service a brand-new logo

Claude opened the app and shot the screens itself. A couple of revisions later, the 90-second demo was on the website

Big employers are asking less for people who use AI and more for people who build with it

A product manager with no astronomy training found a planet candidate with AI and won time on a NASA telescope

One 25-minute podcast episode in, one finished cut out, with intro, captions, and b-roll

One overnight pass over 4.35 million Dutch East India Company pages turned up rhinos and eruptions no list had recorded

Handed over just last year's application PDFs, and the AI operated Hancom Office itself to fill in this year's grant application

He edited one Short by hand as a model, and the AI repeated that edit across the remaining 1,168

Three plain-language requests, and Claude Code got a usage bar above its input box

He only decided what went into each scene, and the AI came back with a launch video that drew 120,000 views

It reported the failed deploy first, and an hour later sent word on its own that the next one had succeeded

Muse messaged several sellers in German and talked the price down, while the human just picked one and paid

The plain approach swapped out an app screen's icons, while PIX carried over even the icons exactly

Banks want lower legal fees because of AI. Law firms' billable hours went up instead

For a card statement analysis app, it first asked whether to keep the originals, then pushed payments back until the value was proven

It started with one line, "I need a paper-search skill," and ended with a stranger's broken skill fixed on the spot and the papers found

The product video they kept putting off took one sentence and 15 minutes

A one-line request moved 97 posts from Brunch to a Naver blog

Handed over 500 emails, and in 25 seconds it picked out only the ones that need a reply

A promo video for a whole month's events: here's what they made with Claude

Copying a stranger's planet hunt turned up two more Earth-size candidates that no catalog listed

One workshop landing page in, a complete promo video out

The dodo record had a five-year gap. AI dug through old records and found a 1615 hunt inside it

The AI ran Premiere itself to edit a YouTube video delivered to a paying client

Robots can do a lot of work. They're cheaper than people for just 0.3% of it

With five chat windows open, alerts used to get lost; now they say which window is waiting on you

Asked for reels from four hours of treatment footage, and the AI picked the usable moments and cut them into vertical reels

Asked to prepare materials and an email for a client, it stopped right before sending and waited for review

Hand it a PR, and the AI comes back with a 30-second explainer video for that feature

A friend trying AI for the first time just connected their inbox, cancelled one subscription and got a $304 refund notice

Handed a recruiting site's hero design, PIX put even the portrait photo and the purple search bar right where the design had them

Asked for a hand-drawn collage style and stepped away; came back to a 52-second app explainer that cost $4

Added one sentence to the end of a request for a guesthouse website, and the AI started by asking about everything I hadn't decided yet

Asked AI to handle 17 overdue Coupang Eats reviews, and it replied to each in the owner's own voice

Just asked for a good web-design skill, and got five candidates compared by install count, with the official one recommended

Coding agents got so good that Shopify now builds every app twice: once for iOS, once for Android

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