Happy Tuesday everybody!
Have you actually used an AI agent yet?
Not ChatGPT.
An agent.
Most people haven't, and most don't realise there's a difference.
ChatGPT is a chatbot. You ask, it answers. "What's the best laptop under $800?", it tells you.
An agent is different.
You give it a task. It goes and does the task.
Opens a browser. Visits sites. Compares specs. Pulls reviews. Writes the report. Builds the spreadsheet.
You don't sit and watch. You check back when it's done.
This category barely existed a year ago. Now it does.
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Pick of the Week - Manus
Manus is the closest thing right now to "tell an AI what you want, walk away, come back to it done."
It runs on its own virtual computer in the cloud. You describe a task in plain English. It plans the steps, opens browsers, runs code, builds files, and delivers a finished result.
What people actually use it for:
Research a topic and produce a written report with real sources
Compare 20 products and pick the best three
Build a simple landing page or web app
Analyse a spreadsheet and turn it into a visual dashboard
Plan a multi-stop trip with prices, routes, and bookings
You can fire off a task from your phone, do something else for 20 minutes, and come back to a finished deliverable.
That's the part that feels different.
Getting started
The free tier gives you 300 daily credits plus a 1,000 starter pack — enough to run a few real tasks and get a feel for it.
If you find yourself reaching for it daily, the Standard plan opens things up at $20/month.
Best advice: start free. Pick one task you'd normally do yourself, give it to Manus, and see what comes back.
A quick note for students
If you're researching for an essay, dissertation, or just background reading, this is what Manus is best at.
ChatGPT can summarise what it already knows. Manus actually goes out, reads current sources, and pulls real quotes back with links you can cite.
That's the difference between a confident-sounding paragraph and something you can actually put in a bibliography.
Worth trying at least once on the free credits.
My take
The big shift this year isn't smarter chatbots. It's chatbots that do things.
ChatGPT writes. Manus acts.
The first time you watch an AI complete a task you'd normally spend an hour on, you start to see what's coming.
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Catch you next week,
Max