Twitter grasps at usefulness, mostly for engagement farming (those TUI dashboards with a thousand agents mucking around).

Me and others I know use it for things similar to the following:

- I get a lot of emails from various organisations about talks and events (today there was one by andrew barto). I ask it to read emails from announce@*, filter to those adjacent to my field, or from notable people, fill the RSVP form using generic details(which it knows!) and then add it to calendar (I don't want to add all)

- giving me the latest updates of my wandb run

- gives me morning abstract+summary(intro + conclusion) of arxiv papers matching keyword / author i specify.

- a specific product I buy (grocery) is very popular and runs out of stock quick every week. I have it watch my quick commerce provider's website and tell me when it becomes available.

- do simple things like summarise new papers add to group zotero

- send discord msg to collaborator, wait for an OK, and then do merge on this repo from this branch provided checks pass

If I had to "pitch" it, I would say this:

Remember those "taking 4 hours to write an automation for something that takes 2m of your day" activities that you never ended up automating? Well it no longer takes 4 hours to write the automation. Most of the above is just a python script no new ability really, but now it takes 1m to write. Making it worth it.

For longer tasks you do very often, I would say you're better off writing a python script. Similarly for important scripts that you want good error handling for.

And really long complex scripts means you'll have to debug it. At which point you might as well write it yourself in the first place.

The telegram gateway makes it super convenient. Many mobile UIs are garbage as you know, so you can ask it to wrangle info into any format and put it there.

However, it absolutely drinks tokens IME. Hard to get it to limit tokens without destroying usefulness. I get some credits so I don't pay. If you pay and are not rich then it's probably not worth it at today's prices.