My wife really dislikes building up the shopping cart for our weekly grocery delivery, so I built an agent... thing with earendil's npm libs. It takes the menu my wife has decided on, confers with her about the ingredients (if it hasn't seen a recipe before), and then uses Chrome's devtools protocol to head to Walmart and add everything to the shopping cart.
It works fairly well and uses the local models I have running on my Mac Studio.
That is fantastic. Last I checked models capable of running on commodity (anything below a dedicated GPU rack) hardware were very lackluster.
I could probably drop the smaller Qwen at this point, but when I was first building this I was having an issue with search results and cart data filling up the main agent's context.
I didn’t “use an agent to find a receipt” in the sense that I purpose built one. I just asked my existing agent that I talk to on telegram by photographing the thing I wanted to know if we could return and while I changed the baby it chugged along and by the time we were ready to go it could tell me whether we did buy it at Costco and when so I know if I can return it.
- Apple Appstore Connect (gazillions of forms of metadata to release an app) - AWS - DigitalOcean - Google Play Store
Whenever I dread logging in because I know the simple sounding task requires me to click through countless menus I use an agent browser. With confirmations of course. However, while the agent clicks through these (oftentimes dog slow) UIs I can do other things. Once it requires permission, I read, decide and act.
tldr; to workaround the lack (or shortcomings) of public m2m APIs in web apps
I also tell my agents to remove annoyances from websites I browse, rearrange the content so that it's easier for me to view. For example when somebody publishes a table where they compare their newly released AI model to others I tell my agent to highlight highest result for each benchmark in every table on the page. I could do it myself with a bit of JS but why bother if agent can write it for me. I added a functionality to my agentic browser that lets the agent make userscripts for me that I can trigger with a push of a button.
I also ask agents whether the specific information is on the page that I'm currently browsing in language I don't understand (or just among the clutter).
Once I asked agent to put more than a dozen items into a cart for me (which names I pasted) because the ecommerce site didn't have convenient way of doing that.
So basically Grease Monkey on steroids + TD;DR;whaat?
Local Qwen3.6 is smart to do all that but I have option to switch to remote stronger models.