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nozzlegearyesterday at 3:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

> I’ve heard executive leaders tout that “people use agents to buy things for them” but I haven’t actually seen that.

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.


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arosier10yesterday at 6:34 PM

Does walmart keep prompting you with "Press and hold" anti bot requests? I have a similar project and keep getting these on walmart.

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diarrheayesterday at 5:16 PM

> uses the local models

That is fantastic. Last I checked models capable of running on commodity (anything below a dedicated GPU rack) hardware were very lackluster.

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