AI agent finds $3,500/year car insurance savings in 5 minutes, buys it and cancels old policy
garrytan · x · 2026-09-15
- User @JosephDevoy uploaded his auto insurance policy to Muse and asked for an identical-coverage better rate; in 5 minutes the agent found a policy saving $3,500/year, purchased it, and canceled the old one.
- He says he'd abandoned several switch attempts because insurance sites and aggregators are painful. Garry Tan amplified the post with a Geico-style joke, calling it a killer use case for autonomous agents handling tedious purchases.
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