AI agent Muse cleared 163,490 promotional emails from Gmail in 3 days, working around limits
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-22
User jspeiser shared that Muse was the first AI his wife allowed on her phone. Her #1 goal: clear 163,490 promotional emails sitting in Gmail after years of failed manual attempts, since Gmail always freezes when selecting that many.
Muse took 3 days, hit multiple Gmail rate limits but worked around them, and cleared everything out — impressing a user who otherwise hates AI. A real-world case of an agent completing a long-running autonomous task.
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