I Tried to Run 10 AI Agents At Once. Here's What Happened (ChatGPT Operator)⏐Ep. #126

Okay, guys, this is going to be the most unscripted, impromptu, impulsive podcast I've ever recorded, and here's why. I just spent an hour and 13 minutes in ChatGPT operator trying to find out how many concurrent tabs I could have running at the same time. In other words, I want 10 people working for me inside my browser for $200 a month to OpenAI for their pro plan. And my mind almost literally melted inside of my skull and I wanted to record this when it was fresh. I'm going to put this episode ahead of all the others in my bank. I have like three weeks of episodes planned right now. This is going to hit the front of the line because I'm insanely excited right now and I think you will find this exciting as well. Okay, so if you follow me on Twitter or anywhere, you'll see that I paid for the $200 a month pro plan on on OpenAI, which just came out, which is called Operator. That's the main core feature of it. Instead of saying like, hey ChatGPT, write me a silly song, you could say, hey ChatGPT, write ME a song. Log into Suno AI, create it, make it a country song, export it, and upload it to Spotify and it can say, okay, cool. And then it will open a browser and start doing all of those things. Now it's still going to need your interaction or login credentials or what have you, but it is just like the biggest level up in the history of level ups. It goes from here's the answer to here's me doing the task for you. Okay, so here are the 10 things that I had it do. Number one, find trending but underpriced items on Offerup and Craigslist to flip on Amazon and eBay. Number two, pull product review data from Amazon and scrape one star complaints to identify gaps for a private label product. Number three, track Google flights for mistake fares and flash sales to plan business trips at ultra low cost. Number four, extract email lists from chamber of commerce directories and send personalized cold outreach at scale. I can't even say that without grading. Number five, Are we on five now? Scrape Etsy, Shopify or Amazon for high margin, low competition products with strong keyword demand. And this one blew my mind the most. Number six, analyze Airbnb listings in a specific city to find underpriced short term rentals for potential arbitrage. Number seven, open Facebook marketplace. Find me an iPhone 15 for sale that is not stolen, it's not broken, and is significantly underpriced and that was listed today. Number eight, go to my Instagram account, click on the for you page on the reels. Start watching Instagram reels that are business related with over 500,000 views that look particularly interesting and bookmark them to my all post bookmark folder. Number nine, make me a business plan for launching a tree trimming business in dfw. Cite case studies from people that have done this in in unique ways, yada yada yada. And that one's was particularly mind blowing because I freaking had it open Chat GPT for me and talk to itself. I had Chat GPT interact with ChatGPT on behalf of me. I'll get to that in a minute. And number 10, open up my emails. Find a really long thoughtful email that I sent someone else in 2007 that might be particularly meaningful. Okay. I was on my church mission in 2007 in Hungary and I was writing emails home every week and it's like my journal. Okay, so here's how it did on all 10 of them. Number one, go find Arbitrage opportunities on Offerup and Craigslist. How did it do? It did amazingly, actually. I refined the prompt quite a bit and I said, make sure that these are items that are over a thousand dollars normally at fair market value. Make sure they're not damaged or have significant defects to them. And for whatever reason it shows cars. And so what it did was made me a spreadsheet. And all this is going to be on YouTube, by the way. I recorded my screen during all of this and if you're listening to this, it might already be on YouTube. You'll see it on the Kerner office on YouTube you'll probably see it. If this doesn't become my most viral video ever, I don't know what will. But I recorded all of this and it created a spreadsheet for me. It put a bunch of cars in there, put the mileage, the year, the make, the model. And then it was like, okay, here's cars and we think they're undervalued. And I'm like, why do you think they're undervalued? And it gave me his logic. And then I said, okay, go look at nada and kbb, which is like vehicle valuation sites. Find the valuations for these cars based on their mileage, put it in a new column, and then in the next column to the right, I want you to tell me how much they're undervalued. And it freaking did it. Not perfectly, there were some glitches, but it didn't. Okay, that's number one. Number two, it struggled with Amazon. I said go to Amazon and find products with 1 star reviews so we could use those complaints to develop a better product. And I chose guitars, went to Amazon and I learned, it kept hanging up. I learned that you have to be logged into Amazon to read one star reviews. Believe it or not, if you go click show me all the one star reviews, it forces you to log in. I thought it was a glitch. It wasn't. So I logged into my Amazon account and then it did. And then it found this guitar that had a bunch of one star reviews and it told me why. And then it could have kept going. Like it could have sourced them for me in Alibaba, but I just moved on to the next one. So that one was a thumbs up. Number three, track Google flights for mistake fares. This one performed the best, honestly, because it just kept going. It opened skiplagged. Com, which is a site for finding, you know, discounted fares and then Google Flights. And it didn't need my interaction at all. It started entering them in a new tab in a spreadsheet all by itself. I let that thing run for 30, 45 minutes without any interaction. And it found cheap flights, $70 flights. Crazy. Next one is extract email lists from the chamber of commerce directories. And I, I refined this prompt to be only in the state of Texas. And then it started and it was like, it's making me log in, it's making me submit a form. And it's like, there's thousands of chamber of commerce websites in the state of Texas. Ignore the ones that require you to log in or find a form. It's like, okay, boom. Another thing that was crazy for me about this is how many tabs it had open. It had dozens of tabs open, which is like, that's how I act. Like it kept them all open and then it was logging the emails in a sheet. It didn't do great, but I don't think it was, it was its fault because it only found me two email addresses after like 45 minutes. Which I think is just because it's, it's hard finding a chamber of commerce directory that publicly publishes all of their members email addresses. That's not behind a paywall of some sort of. So I think it performed adequately, but it, the results weren't great because of the prompt wasn't great. The next one was to scrape Etsy. So Etsy Shopify or Amazon for high margin, low competition products with low keyword demand. I refined that down to Etsy only because I think Etsy is really cool. And I told it to find products on the homepage that seemed to be trending. And this one blew my mind because it found this lamp 180 lamp that has been sold thousands of times that it had like a viral tag on it. And then here's what blew my freaking mind. I said, I want you to take the image of this lamp and reverse Google Image search it so we can find the vendor of this lamp in China, the manufacturer. And it said, sorry, that's beyond my capabilities. I can't do reverse Google Image search. And I was like, hmm, okay, we're not giving up here. So I said, go to images.google.com and paste the image there. So it was just basically asked the same thing. I said, reverse Google Image search this. But instead of just telling it to do it, I told it how to do it. And it probably knew, but it just, it was a way of circumventing the guardrail, so to speak. And it did. It opened images google.com it loaded, it put in the URL of the picture. It opened Alibaba. It found something similar, not the same. And I was like, okay, log this. Like, open a new tab in the spreadsheet, log this, Put the price in there, put the link. I might come back to this, but I want you to find the exact one. And guess what? It freaking did. 2495 was the cost. It's being sold for $180. Okay, so video is cool. But you know what's better? Long form audio via podcast and my newsletter, tkopod.com go there to subscribe for free to my newsletter. It's one email a week, very tactical. And then go to my audio podcast. Three episodes a week, stuff like this. You're gonna love it. All free, no sleazy sales pitch. Tkopod.com it's like a 90, 88% profit margin here on a product. I did almost nothing. And we could just start importing these and selling them on Etsy with paid ads. Like, this is a business. This could be a business. And I didn't even like, this is the first result. It could have gotten so much better than this. So that one really blew my mind, both the what it gave me and like my unlock to just say, like, just give it more details on how to Google Image search or reverse Google Image search something. So that was a mind boggler. And then the next one was to find some Airbnb Arbitrage and I picked Minneapolis for whatever reason. And I just said, find some really cheap Airbnb listings in Minneapolis. I purposely didn't give it much training, much prompting. I didn't say weekends or weekdays. I didn't give dates. And so it just started going. This one performed like a well oiled machine. Tons of tabs, tons of different markets, searching by neighborhoods. And then I stopped it and I said, what's your logic? How are you doing this? Tell me how and why you're. And it's like, well, I'm searching during the weekdays cause that's going to be cheaper. And you didn't tell me that you wanted only the weekends. So I'm. I'm searching for things that I know will be cheaper and starting there. And it's like, oh my gosh, another framework like ask ChatGPT why it's doing what it's doing and then learn from that. Okay, so that one boggles Online. It performed great. There was a glitch in that. The, the one that was looking for underpriced cars, it used the same tab on the spreadsheet as the Airbnb one. And so they kind of interrupted each other, but if it weren't for that, it would have performed flawlessly. The next one was to find an iPhone 15 on Facebook marketplace. That's underpriced. That one glitched out on me. Mostly because of these 10 operators I had running at the same time. Facebook was the only one. Well, there's Google too. Facebook was the only one that made me like, watch the tab the entire time. I could not navigate away from the tab. It wouldn't let me, which was really annoying because I want to have my cake and eat it too. Why one operator when you can have 10? Also, by the way, it only let me run a maximum of six concurrently. As soon as I tried to start the seventh one, it's like, nope, you gotta end the sixth one before you start the seventh one. So I did end up running all 10, but not until I closed one first. So that is the limit. But I haven't gotten to the craziest part yet. So the Facebook thing would have worked, but I had already done the Facebook thing with the pianos and the fireplaces and grills and all that. So I'm like, okay, I'm confident this will work. But I went ahead and closed the tab. So then the eighth one was Instagram, log into my Instagram account, start watching reels. And this one, this one blew my mind because it can watch videos. It can watch videos like, am I The only one that didn't know this. Like, obviously it can analyze pictures that's been around for a while. But I had never been able to get any of these models to like watch a video for me, which didn't make sense because it's like a video is just a bunch of frames strung together. Why can't you just watch every frame and use logic to string them together and say, you know, woman walks in house, woman sits down, like. But it did. It watched Instagram reels for me and I wasn't sure if it was watching, so I interrupted it and said, what's happening here? And it described exactly what was happening. I said, how do you know that this is happening? I was like, well, I watched it. I was like, well, did you extract the transcript? Because it's. If it's a video with audio, then it could just extract the transcript. And it's like, no, I watched it and I watched it. Watch it. Right. I don't know if it's frame by frame. I don't know how it works. I'm not technical. But the implication for me, as someone who posts reels on a daily basis, is massive because I can. I've posted 400 reels and all of them have a lot of data tied to them. What's my swipe through rate? How many seconds did they watch? Average view duration, average view percentage, how many people shared, what percentage of people shared, comments, likes, yada, yada, yada. And so using an API, I can say watch all 400 of my reels and then watch all 400 of those same reels that I posted to Snapchat, YouTube shorts, TikTok and Facebook reels. Okay, cool. Now it's watched the same 400 reels on five different platforms. Okay, cool. Now I want you to take note of all of the engagement metrics, how many views, shares, likes, comments, et cetera. Okay, cool. Find correlations. Okay, cool. Now I want you to predict how this reel will do. And then I upload a new one that I've never posted. 130,000 views on Facebook, 80,000 on Instagram, a million on YouTube. It's like, okay, why? Here's why. Here's what we noticed. Okay, how can I improve this? I want to do a million on Instagram. And of course it's not going to be perfect, but it might say, well, you know, your background video is a little lame and people are probably going to drop off around the second number 13 because the background video is exciting. And then it switches to one that's Boring, huh? Okay, so make the second one more exciting because the second one's kind of boring. Interesting. There's a two second pause here. You can lose people there. Interesting. So like there's a whole business idea. There's a whole idea for me to put out better content, right? So then I was like, watch videos that have over 500,000 views that relate to a business idea and then bookmark it. So it was like, oh, I bookmarked it and then I look at my bookmarks, it's not there. It's like, no, you didn't. I just looked and it's not there. And then I watched it navigate in the browser. It goes to my bookmarks, it opens them and it like sees that it's not there. And it's like a bot. Like if I was using a bot, a bot would know. Like, it would remember it doesn't have to like physically navigate there like a dumb human would do. But that's what it did. Like it, it acts like a human in some ways and in other ways it acts superhuman, which kind of makes it more superhuman in my opinion. But then it was like, oh, you're right, let me fix that. And I was more specific. I'm like, it needs to go in the all posts bookmark folder. And then it did. It worked. It bookmarked it. And I couldn't get this to work last week either. When it tried. When I tried, but it worked now. So that's crazy because I can literally have it do research for me on what to post content about. So, okay, that's mind boggling. And then the second to last one, okay, this is where it got crazy. So my prompt was make a business plan very specific about launching a tree trimming business. Use case studies, reference those case studies, yada, yada, yada. But then I took it a step further and I said, I want you to log into ChatGPT and give it this prompt for me. I want you to talk to ChatGPT for me. And I was like, okay, go ahead and take over the browser and log into Chat GPT. So I did logged in two factor authentication. I put the control back onto the operator and then it typed in the prompt and it was like, is this the prompt you want me to put? And I'm like, heck yeah, it is. But make it better. Like, I don't know how to prompt. You know how to prompt. Make it better. So it was like, it made it a lot more specific. It's like, include financial projections. It even said like, consider local regulations in Dallas pertaining to tree trimming industries, and include those as one of the risk factors. And then, boop, it spits out a business plan. And then it was like, all right, keep prompting, keep talking to it. And ChatGPT was freaking talking to freaking ChatGPT for me. The robots controlling the robots. Are you kidding me right now? Has this ever been done? I don't know. I mean, every man on this planet wants to be the first at something, so surely it has been. But for the purposes of this podcast and my ego, it's never been done before, okay? I mean, this product has only been out for a week or two, and if no one's ever posted about it, then it's never been done as far as I'm concerned. So the last one was to comb my emails and it glitched out pretty hardcore on two things. And I don't think it was ChatGPT's fault. I wanted it to watch YouTube shorts as well, because I didn't. Like, I was lazy. I didn't want to have to log into Instagram. Well, to watch YouTube shorts, you don't have to log in. So it would not open Google. It was just like a 404 error code. And no matter what, I was like, YouTube.com, no YouTube.com shorts no, like, it wouldn't work, but it would. It would go to Google image search, it would go to Google, but it would not go to YouTube. So it's like, okay, surely YouTube is blocking something or something's going on here on the back, on the back end. And the same thing happened with Gmail. It worked with Gmail like 2 days ago. Like it was in my Gmail. I logged into Gmail inside the operator's browser, but it wouldn't even load. Like, it wasn't a 404 error. It's just gmail.com would not load inside the operator's browser. So I wasn't able to search my emails. But I'm pretty confident that would work because I was able to get in my Gmail before. But like, imagine that. Like, let's say I want to put together a journal for my two year church mission and I want to pull emails to my family to make this journal or a book. I want to write a book about my experience in Hungary from 06 to 08. Boom. One prompt into the operator, everything just email sent folder email. Yeah, this is to Cindy Kerner, Chris's mom. Copy put into Google Docs. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. I've got a book. I've got a book and I don't even think I would need to like, finessing. I would need to like, finesse the prompt and keep like, I would just let it go. I don't even need to leave the tab open in this case. So all of this happened like over the last hour. My brain is on fire. Two Tylenol are on the way and I just wanted to hit record on this so you guys could just hear this straight from the horse's mouth. And today is January 31, 12:38pm I recorded an hour and 13 minutes of me doing everything I described. Depending on when you're hearing this, it might be on my YouTube channel, it might not. But go ahead and watch it. I'm going to talk all about this on my newsletter. You could subscribe at tkopod. Com. Please share this with a friend. AI is taking over the world. Like, there's no stopping it. It's not scary. Like, this is just cool. Like, humans are good. We're going to figure out a way to use this for good. Could it be very bad? Of course, I could be wrong, but I think it's going to be good. Thanks for listening.