What this is
Real Agent Use Cases is a working record of how people actually use AI to get their jobs done.
Most of what’s written about AI is either a product demo or a prediction. This is neither. Every piece here comes from one of three places: my own hands-on practice, interviews with practitioners across different industries, or carefully sourced accounts from people doing the real work. The standard is simple — if it hasn’t actually been used to do something, it doesn’t go in.
Who I am
I’m Jack Qian. I work as a business planner at Texas Instruments in Dallas, and I studied electrical engineering at Texas A&M. AI isn’t in my job title — but it’s become the thing I spend most of my energy on.
Inside TI, I run a 200-person AI community: a group chat where people across departments share the projects they’re actually building with AI. Outside work, I started a Dallas AI community that’s also grown to 200 people — we’ve held two events so far, a 40-person talk and a 30-person hackathon, with the third happening this month.
I started all of this for a selfish reason: I wanted to find people who were as deep into this as I was, and ask them questions. This newsletter is that same instinct, written down. I’m a practitioner first — I use these tools every day — and a collector second, gathering what works from the people around me and the people I interview.
Who it’s for
If you work for a living and want to know what AI genuinely changes about your day — not what a vendor says it might change someday — this is for you. Readers come from across industries and roles. What they have in common is wanting the unvarnished version.
What you’ll get
A steady stream of concrete use cases: what tool, what task, what actually happened, what didn’t. Interviews with practitioners. Occasional deeper looks at patterns across industries, plus notes from the AI communities I run. No newsletter-padding, no recycled news.
Subscribe to follow along. It’s the resource I wish existed when I started.