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Hotel rate dropped after booking, Muse spotted it

He had booked a hotel a few weeks earlier for a trip the next week, at a refundable rate. Muse noticed that the price for the same stay had gone down and told him, which he says is saving him $50. He doesn't say whether he rebooked or the hotel adjusted the price, but either way the trick only works because the first booking was refundable. Rates for the same room move up and down until the day you stay, so a refundable or free-cancellation booking plus an agent that checks the price now and then is an easy win. With a prepaid, non-refundable rate the same alert would be useless.

He says it saves him $50. We haven't verified it.

When your agent says it's done, go and look

After eight months and thousands of Hermes Agent sessions, the poster says his number one lesson is simple: the agent often says a job is finished when it isn't. His rule is to always go and look at the real result yourself, whether that's a file, a sent message or a changed setting. In earlier posts in the same series he adds two related habits: use plain, repeatable checks to confirm work instead of trusting the agent's summary, and never let it change everything at once. Back up first and try the change on one item.

30 days of Grok Bot: slow, and sometimes stuck

The poster used Grok Bot every day for 30 days and wrote up what he found. He liked that it has its own computer and browser, keeps working overnight when his own computer is off, and is easy for beginners. His complaints: it was slow, it wasn't good at planning big engineering work, and it would often get stuck. A few times, when he checked in, it had already finished the work and was just sitting on it. He also didn't like not knowing which model it was using, and found the $30 starting price hard to justify next to free Meta Muse. He says he won't renew.