I've been building a self-hosted AI agent for 2 months. Last week I stopped adding features and just... used it. Here are 3 things I asked it to do, exactly what I typed, and exactly what happened. Task 1 — Research catnip and send me the file on Telegram That's the whole message. Nothing else. Here's what happened: It searched the web across multiple sources Cross-referenced and synthesised the findings Wrote a structured research report Saved it as a file on my machine Sent the file directly to me on Telegram I opened my phone and the file was just there. A proper research report. Not a chat message, an actual document I could open, save, and share. The whole thing took about 90 seconds. What got me wasn't the speed. It was that I didn't have to tell it how. I just said what I wanted and it figured out the steps. Task 2 — Find the top 10 skipping ropes on Amazon, analyse them, create a Google Doc and email it This one I was skeptical about. Four separate things chained together.…