You won’t believe these ai agents aren’t human

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0:00There's a new AI assistant that will have its own phone number, email address, and be able to do work for you. It is amazing. You've got to see it. Someone created a robot that you can program with Claude code. There's an amazing new AI video creation tool that you have got to see to believe, and we tested it. We've got all that and so many other AI launches this week. We've

0:18got links below. Let's get to it. Presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. Corey, this thing went hot, number one on Product Hunt. What it does is it makes phone calls for you. It sends emails for you. It gets things done. How many times you have an agent that needs to like do research on something, and it gets stuck. It turns it over to you to make phone calls. This will do it for you. It has been incredibly hot this

0:40week. What do you think? I think this is their play at creating like a Jarvis-like assistant, right? I think this is going to be an out-of-the-box assistant that just works. It makes calls. It does emails. It does scheduling. It does all the things. And I think it'll catch on. I mean, a lot of companies are trying to do this, but this seems to be really polished and seems to be getting some

0:58traction. I like that it books follow-up tweets on hold, and the pricing is reasonable. Why isn't it showing up over here? We looked at the pricing earlier. It's not coming up. There's a free plan, and then there's a tier that's $20 a month. Let's go to the next one. This is amazing. You found this. I hadn't heard of it. What

1:13is this robot?

1:58You and I, use What do you use? Cloud Code, Codex to code? I've been using Codex a lot more recently, yeah. Now, do you use voice dictation the way I do? I've been using it a ton recently, yeah. Not so much for coding task, which is why I like this product so much, but

2:14like what does this one do? What it does is it allows you to talk to the agent a step beyond dictation. Here, look, you're just talking to it. Down here, you can see how it works. Build me a banana bread recipe page. Now, the background is all this and this is what you get built. So, you don't even have to go through the big back and forth here by text and dictation. This just is voice and it will do the work for you. It's been really hot also. Again, number one on Product Hunt. Product Hunt has been

2:43identifying a lot of really good tech. Next. Yeah. [snorts] Speaking of number one on Product Hunt, this is AI that schedules better for you than an EA and all it does is schedule meetings. You and I I want to interview you on what you're doing with Hyper Agent. We're going to go back and forth

3:00a few times by email trying to do this. I might send you a calendar link and forget that you hadn't responded to me. All that stuff is what this takes care of. Hey Noah will actually just handle the back and forth, make sure that if you didn't respond, you get reminded, make sure that we book it and if we want to have a a dinner reservation, it will

3:17make the dinner reservation for us, too. One trick, but it seems to do it really well. Yeah, what I like about this is it says no app to install. It runs 100% via text message. That's what it says up there. It's like enter your phone number to get started. So, it's like you type in your phone number, it'll text you and then you're using it immediately. I think that's going to really catch on cuz I think the friction that most people have when setting up agents is the actual setup [clears throat] and this completely eliminates that. So,

3:43I think this will crush it. One big issue and you pointed it out before we got started. You said how much is it? We couldn't find the price. I don't know why they're burying the price beyond like setting it up, but I don't know how much it costs. If anyone can figure it out, let us know. We're going to go on to this video to this creator. You love when people create and

4:01share. This is one of those situations. What did Omar make? Yeah, so Omar vibe coded a simple app that I mean I could certainly see myself using it. When you're in the airport or when you're on a plane and you're on the airport Wi-Fi or the airplane Wi-Fi, you can pull up this app and it can tell you how strong your signal is. So, you know what your download speed is, whether you're you've got good connectivity. I can't tell you how many times I've been on the plane, my Wi-Fi cuts in and out. I don't know if it's my phone, I don't know if I should

4:29disconnect or reconnect, but this pretty much just gives you that insight into and look it's ranked number 21 in utilities, it says. That's crazy. So, it's actually doing well and it's cost 99 cents. Yeah, and he's charging for it. Yeah. All right, wait. think this is super smart. I love that Omar did that. Okay, Agent Sky is for those of us who love to install agents, but do not want to have a Mac mini running in the background the whole time or in my case it's one of my old laptops that's doing it. And the problem with having that is that it's a lot of maintenance. It does get to be

5:01really frustrating to keep it up. And here what you're looking at, three bucks a month is where it starts and you can just pick the model that you want. Here you can select Hermes, you can pick that it works on GPT 5.6 soul, etc. And it just launches for you in the cloud and then you could start to connect it to things like like [snorts] is that the Slack logo? Is

5:18that what they made here? Yeah. [laughter] This is this is someone's vibe coded Slack logo, but okay, we get the point. What do you think of this? So, this to me is they're almost trying to position themselves as like the Chipotle of agent setups. So, the idea is it's like you pick a harness, you know, Hermes and even said like Codex was an option. You pick your model, you pick your capabilities. So, on that homepage it said like, you know, scrape web, generate images. You can kind of give it all these capabilities and then connect it to whatever you want. So, it's like you you know, you're mixing

5:48and matching, pick and choose how you want your agent to to behave and to be. And it's going to be more for that person who wants a plug-and-play experience versus someone like me and you who is going to take the time to like build Hermes from scratch exactly how we want it to be. So, they they know what market segment they're going after,

6:05I think. Yeah, my my big issue with something like this is and I I do like this uh my big issue is I do want it to have a complete computer control and this doesn't quite get me that, but um but I can see people setting this up in the cloud easily. Let's go on to the next

6:20one. App Lama, when we're vibe coding apps, one of the things we want to know is how should this look? Well, we can often just turn it over to Claude code or we can come here and look at this. You pick like maybe you're creating a health app and instead of just starting from scratch, you can study this app over here. You can see that it's done 40,000 revenue estimated in July 2026. You can see the homepage. You can scroll through and see what their onboarding flow was like. What does it look like at the paywall? And now you can study them and

6:48make decisions on how your app will be. Here's another one, 20K. What does this paywall look like? What's their workout setup? I was going to delete this from the week cuz there's so many news stories. You wanted it on. Why why are you so excited about this? I like this one so much because I can't tell you how many times I've gone to create vibe code, whether it's like a website or a landing page or even like a simple app, and I don't have any inspiration to pick from. So, this again, you you do have to pay for access here, which I think makes sense, but it

7:16just gives you that UI inspiration so that you can go and see what are the top apps doing, how are they setting up their paywall, what do they look like, and then you can literally just hand that to Claude or to Codex and have it build your version of that. So, I'm more than willing to pay the whatever it says, $12 a month to get all that in one place versus me having to spend, you know, hours or even days finding examples of what I want my product to

7:40look like. So, I think this is awesome. I think they're going to have a big issue with people just signing up for 12 bucks and canceling immediately because, you know, you need the inspiration, you need the idea and scraping it all. Yeah. Yeah. All right, very helpful, very useful. And by the way, this is the launch offer. They just launched 25% off. It's only available for another hour. It might be different when you when you

7:58check it out. All right, next. Co-pilot. This is open source and here's the idea. You have all seen how Claude has gotten a lot of attention for adding itself into Slack. But what if you don't use Slack? What if you use Teams? What if you prefer Discord, which a lot of people do? What if you prefer SMS? This idea is and I'm going to go away from the GitHub page to their home page right here. Their vision is you pick any agent connected to any channel. They're going

8:22to make it easy for you to connect. I think it's I think it's useful. Agreed. I mean, again, this is they're trying to just give people the option of any agent, any channel. Like that's even what they say on their home page. So, it's like you want if you want, you know, an Open Claw agent in Discord, great. If you want a Hermes [clears throat] agent in Slack, great. So, again, I think this is going to be for the like the person or the team who needs a who has a very specific need around like we want this harness in this channel and we just want a

8:53one-click done. Um I don't know I'm curious. Do you know how much customization needs to be done in the back end? Like is this something where they just get the agent in there and then it's up to you to build the skills and the capabilities? That's kind of what it looks like. I understand, you connect it in and you build the capabilities in basically

9:09you're training it. Okay, so they get you from zero to one very quickly, but then it's your job to get from like one to 10. It's kind of what I'm saying. I'm understanding. Exactly. Got it. Okay, that makes sense. All right. Um and then they give you all the ideas for what you can do uh with

9:24the agent. Okay, next. Gen Office. We're going to be quick on this one. Here's the thing. Microsoft Office came out years ago. We're now seeing we next we saw the next level, which is Google Drive where it put everything into the cloud. Obviously, Microsoft Office went next. What this is is saying, "Look, we want an agent first office, not just free, which has existed for a long time, but agent first so that your agents can create docs, your agents can interact with docs, and we don't want to limit it to whatever model is available for you with that software. So, instead of using Gemini with Microsoft with with uh

10:05Google Docs. This is Gen Office, gives you more flexibility. Um I feel okay about it. I don't know. Not loving it. I can't imagine people trying it. I think it's or living in it. It's just interesting. My agents already live inside Google Docs and Google Sheets, so it doesn't do too much for me, but again, something that people I'm sure will try, whether they'll stick around is is to be

10:25determined. Yeah, it's a it's from an interesting company, Gen Spark, I think. Yeah, Gen Spark did this. I've been interested in what they're doing. Let's go into the final one. You tell me when to stop playing. I'm going to zoom in a little bit. Um

10:43Hi, I ask people who look fit, "What's your workout routine?" I love videos like this. Spin class. I scream in the dark with strangers. Does it help? It's the only thing that does. Hi, I ask people who look fit, "What's your workout routine?" Gym at 6:00 a.m. I hate it there. What's your routine?

11:08Roller skating badly. What's your routine? Reformer Pilates, torture but cute. What's your routine? Wearing the outfit, that's step one. Should we keep going? So, I mean, you can pause here, but again, the the reason this stuck out to me is like this is so realistic. I don't know about you, but I if I saw this

11:27video, I'd be like, "This is real." Like, I cannot tell this is AI. Can you? Super realistic. This is the demo. They are now letting people use it. We'll have a link to this and everything else below. Here it is for people to try out themselves. The question is, when you use it on a real world case, what is it

11:43going to look like? Um but the vision is for this type of hyperrealistic and I do think this looks great. Yeah. Crazy. Oh. Wait, I created one. Let's see what it looks like. I said I said a child asking an adult why the sky is blue. Let's zoom in a little bit. Here is me creating it. [snorts]

12:03Why is the sky blue? Scatters in the air, sunlight, and blue light spreads around more than the other colors. Okay. [laughter] Not bad. We scrambled at the last minute to do this. It cost me $1.80. Not bad to get that. I would have liked to see more of the the lips and voice match up as we were talking, but [snorts]

12:26let's see. One more time. Why is the sky blue? Cheat It cheat It didn't show it. Okay. Still Scatters in the air, spreads around more than the other colors. Impressive. All right. all things considered, I think that that has huge potential. That's the best video gen I've seen from like such a low effort attempt and and ever, really. Okay. All right. If you like these apps, we've got so many other AI tools for you right here. Follow me and we'll both see

12:54you in the next video.

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