Life Admin & HomeDone with Operator Feb 4, 2025
Handle moving errands and reservations
A TechCrunch reporter used Operator for a week; a restaurant reservation needed many interventions and an electrician booking failed.
- What They Did
- During a week-long trial coinciding with his apartment move, Maxwell Zeff gave Operator moving tasks: buying a parking permit, booking a Greek restaurant, finding a parking garage, and booking an electrician on TaskRabbit. Operator worked in a cloud browser, searching and filling forms. He had to approve steps, supply personal details, and take over when it got lost.
- How It Went
- It found a suitable restaurant but needed more than half a dozen answers along the way. TaskRabbit blocked it, and it hallucinated garage distances (20 and 30 minutes' walk) after entering a wrong address.
- Worth Knowing
- Operator has no access to your credit card, passwords or email. Expedia, Reddit and YouTube also blocked it, so expect to step in often.
Try it yourself with Operator
I'm moving to [city] on [date] and need help with errands. Find three [service, e.g. electricians] near [address] with good reviews and available times in [date range], and look up a table at [restaurant] for [number] people on [date]. Pause and show me the details before you submit any booking form or send any message to a business. Finish with a summary of options and anything that failed.
Do this with a skill.
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