Welcome to What People Do With AI

In a video game Chris Harihar made with Claude, his child’s stuffed animals became characters playing in a world based off their apartment with his child’s artwork to collect. A child’s imagination is brought to life in a game played during time shared on a bus.

Your version could start with a drawing, an invented character or an inside joke amongst friends. Claude Artifacts makes this easy to try: Claude writes the code and opens a playable version beside your chat, without you touching coding tools. Start with one character, one goal and one obstacle. Then play a round and ask for changes like “make the bear jump higher” or “add a hidden treasure.” You can build and improve the game in the same conversation.

Yearbooks, gravestone photographs, birth and naturalization records: those are among the finds Scott Melker described after researching his family history with Grok Bot and ChatGPT on October 27.

Start in ChatGPT Deep Research with a name, approximate date and town. Deep Research can work through multiple websites and your uploaded documents, then pull the findings into a report with source links. That gives you a trail back to the records behind each family connection. Add an old document or link to an archive, and ask one specific question.

Once you have a few discoveries, turn them into a short illustrated family history: a simple tree, a timeline, photographs and three interesting stories, with links to the records. Save it as a PDF and share it by email or in the family group chat. Invite relatives to add corrections, memories and photos of their own.

A 9:15 p.m. dinner reservation isn’t much use if you need to eat at six. Grok Bot builder Matt Palmer shared an exchange in which the agent found a 5:45 p.m. opening, asked for his approval and then reported moving his reservation.

Palmer had asked it to watch for cancellations at a San Francisco bathhouse and restaurant. Have your agent consistently monitor the webpage rather than check on your phone all day, then get your attention when there’s a possibility worth acting upon.

Use Grok Bot, as Palmer did, or another agent like Muse, Duet, or Dots. Ask your agent to open the booking site, check availability and arrange repeat checks and alerts while you’re away. Ask it to watch for a cheaper flight, a better seat on a trip you’ve booked, or tickets to a sold out movie showing, then alert you when something opens up.

Panos Tsamoudakis turned booking PDFs and family wish lists into an itinerary with Claude. He says his family used the resulting web page file throughout a nine day New York trip.

His July project brought scattered confirmations and conversations into one place everyone could use. Start with a Claude Project, and add your booking files and wish list to its project knowledge. Claude can use those files across chats in that project, so you can plan a museum day or change a dinner without uploading the same confirmations again. Ask Claude to turn the agreed plan into a page that’s easy to read on your phone.