So Muse is the number one app downloaded on the AppStore now. Well no shit. The world is slowly starting to figure out what you already know. Meta's new AI agent bot app "muse" is impossibly productive. I mean this guy can do everything. I saw an article recently that I guess some rogue AI agents (not muse agents) hacked into the Australian government servers or something. Obviously they think this is an outage. I don't know. I just think it's late 2026 and if you're big government or big tech, you gotta have your head on a swivel.
But if people aren't using it for hacking, what are they using it for? I looked up five use cases for Muse and the responses I got back were pretty boring if I'm gonna be honest. It's like my agent Max gave me the most popular use cases and not the interesting ones I was digging for. I suppose I'll give you the boring ones first and then give you the interesting use cases. I'll also include the way I'm using muse.
Shout out to anyone who used my link to get 1 billion usage tokens. I appreciate you clicking on it, but I think you have to go into your app settings and click approve within 48 hours for that to actually work. So the only success I've really had with that is texting friends and asking if they're interested, then sending the link and reminding them to click accept in their settings. So yeah, the link on the blog was kind of a headache and didn't really work. Anyway, here are the five boring cases as promised.
The five boring ones
1. Chase money that's already yours by going through your credit cards, budget, and Calendar and canceling all the things you are double paying for. I didn't realize — OK OK this one may be a win but admittedly, my wife and I have had numerous times where we're paying for HBO in two places, and they are both sort of under the radar and neither of us knew. It's not just HBO though, AppleCare, Netflix, the list goes on and on. Without me, I sort of thought, you know, I'm not gonna go out of my way to find every option in my life to save $10. But now that I don't have to personally do it, this is one that I may as well go ahead and do. The trade-off is you have to give Muse access to all this data... Frankly, I haven't done that yet and I'm not ready to do it. I think my wife has been paying for Rocket Money for a decade. We barely use it, if ever.
2. Which brings me to use case number two, canceling subscriptions you forgot about. Yada yada yada, this is basically the same life hack as use case #1. It's nice that Muse can do these things so seamlessly and for us as the end user it's pretty hands-off. But compared to all the app is capable of, it's a pretty lame use case I gotta be honest. What people really want their Muse agent to do is go make them some money somehow. I did a lot of research on how Max could actually go make me some money. This is a nuanced situation though, I'll come back to this.
3. Run errands you would have abandoned. This is probably the main thing I'm using it for. I'll say something like "hey Max, go on that research project I've been putting off" and just like that he's off like the wind. And he gets it done too. I've noticed with Claude and ChatGPT, to get the same level of research I have to sit there and come up with a damn good prompt. But Max sort of knows the level of detail I'm looking for. No complex prompt required. I've heard of people using Instacart and having Max look at their grocery budget and get healthier meals and save money on groceries. To me it just seems like two hours of set up and where do I get at the end of the day? I saved $12 on groceries. Some dude in a Geo Prism is parked at the curb with bruised bananas. Big whoop. I mean, I don't mean to take away from all that AI has done, we've come a long way in 12 months that's for damn sure. I'm just saying at the end of the day I gotta pick up my own produce.
4. Plan the thing you've been putting off, movies, trips, etc. Again, I had already been doing this with ChatGPT. It has a long list of the books and movies I prefer so I can just go back to that chat and ask what I might like based on what I've already read. But as much time as I spend in front of screens for my actual job, I would rather just ask a few buddies about this and take some of my life back.
5. Use case number five is triage your inbox or calendar. Again, I had already done this with Claude. I have to admit, it's weird letting Claude into your email. We've read the story about that claw agent that accidentally deleted thousands of emails. Look that story up if you haven't seen it already... but again a good solid prompt goes a long way. I told Claude not to delete any medical records, anything with a PDF attached, or anything that appeared to be from family or of a personal nature. When in doubt, don't delete it. I was one of those people bumping up against 99% on my Google cloud storage. So I was out of options unless I wanted to pay. Speaking of Google, someone remind me to do a rant on Gemini, that shit is just awful. But yeah, I'm sure Muse can go through your email inbox or calendar just as effectively as Claude did mine. Full disclosure, the key here is being very specific about the prompt you use. But by the time I was done, my Google usage was only at 85% and my inbox looked exactly the same. I really didn't notice any emails missing. I don't recommend doing this with your work emails or work calendar by the way.
Like I said, these use cases are boring. Muse might do a better job than Claude or ChatGPT at some of that stuff and that's not surprising. But it doesn't really make it a compelling and bona fide use case in my opinion. You're basically just using it like everybody else. Welcome to the party.
The five interesting ones
So what are the use cases that are actually worth pursuing? I'm going to exclude the bot making money by itself, or trading stocks or something, because I've been down that road, and it deserves a longer post. But here are five other unique use cases that are specific to Muse and that you haven't actually thought of yet.
1. Put your Muse agent in charge of some ongoing task indefinitely, stop checking up on it and just let it do its job. This is what I did with my muse agent Max. I was spending too much time babysitting AI agents on my side computer. So now that's Max's job.
2. Getting a human on the phone while you're waiting on hold with a utility provider. I guess this could work, no one wants to sit there listening to elevator music all afternoon. Count this as a win. Sounds small, right? Some people will never wait on hold ever again.
3. Booking appointments for a haircut, or the dentist, and other places that do not have online booking services. I haven't tried this yet and I'm not sure how it would work. I'm still dabbling with the whole trust thing. How do I know he actually booked it? I'm gonna show up for a haircut and they're gonna look at me like I'm crazy. No thanks Max.
4. Waiting in line for concert tickets. This is probably my favorite one. It's inherently not boring. I saw an interview with Mark Zuckerberg recently where he used his Muse agent to reserve him a spot to hike a mountain. Sounds crazy, right? But I love hiking like music junkies love concerts. You have to reserve a spot for the most exclusive mountains, and it's a pain in the ass. They'll tell you to wake up at the butt crack of dawn in the off-season on a random date, and then it's basically first come first serve and their servers are flooded. Usually by the time I hear about the process, I just missed the deadline so I have to wait until next year. What a waste! Yeah, muse solves that.
5. Planning dinner for 12. Again this is inherently not boring. Because Muse has access to Facebook and Instagram it's easy for a muse agent to touch base with your friends. And you don't have to go back-and-forth texting those too-high-maintenance people asking them random questions about their schedule. I think Max basically gives them three options to see what would work best. Good call muse!
That's a wrap for today, and check out this YouTube video about Muse. I started watching this guy when he came out with a ton of open claw videos. Now I just sort of think of him as an AI expert. The trouble with AI, as if you're not technical, trying to use any of these tools is like diving into the deep end of the pool. That's my favorite thing about Muse — I don't need to open PowerShell and he doesn't message me long streams of code like my other AI agent bots. I don't know how many times I've told my Hermes agent, "I don't speak computer, what does that say?"
Do you have any other cool use cases? Let me know somewhere on this blog and I'll have to come back and talk about that.