Get about 70% of a visa application done with Meta's Muse agent, then finish the uploads and one flight by hand (partial)
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What went wrong: Muse did about 70% of the work; uploads, photo sizing and one booking had to be done by hand.
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Ha Tran Nguyen Phuong used Muse to apply for a visa. It booked a refundable multi-leg flight and a refundable hotel, got the bank statement, dug through email for papers such as the passport photo and I-94, wrote a day-by-day itinerary and filled in the online form. But it couldn't size the passport photo (made from a selfie with ChatGPT) to fit the frame or upload most of the files; one field accepted only JPG, not PDF, and images had to be under 2MB, so they had Muse convert and compress files. Muse also missed extra documents and flights the instructions required, and bot detection stopped it booking one flight. Muse did about 70% of the work and they still spent about an hour on it.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about anything important that's missing below. Keep them quick. Then do the task, checking in with me at the key points. Goal: Help me prepare and fill in a visa application, and tell me everything the instructions require before we start. What I can give you (ask for whatever's missing): - The visa type and the official application site: [DETAILS] - My travel dates and plans: [DETAILS] - Where my documents are (email, drive): [DETAILS] Rules: - Read the official instructions first and give me a full checklist of documents, bookings and file requirements (format, size). - Prepare files to meet the requirements, for example converting PDFs to JPG or compressing images. - Only make refundable bookings, and show me each one before booking. - Fill in the form but stop before submitting so I can check every field. - Tell me straight away about anything you can't do so I can do it myself. - If a site asks me to sign in, pause and let me do it myself (including any CAPTCHA or two-step code); never guess or store passwords. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: A checklist with what's done and what's left, and the filled form ready for my review. You'll know it worked when: the application is submitted with everything the instructions ask for.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about anything important that's missing below. Keep them quick. Then do the task, checking in with me at the key points. Goal: Help me prepare and fill in a visa application, and tell me everything the instructions require before we start. What I can give you (ask for whatever's missing): - The visa type and the official application site: [DETAILS] - My travel dates and plans: [DETAILS] - Where my documents are (email, drive): [DETAILS] Rules: - Read the official instructions first and give me a full checklist of documents, bookings and file requirements (format, size). - Prepare files to meet the requirements, for example converting PDFs to JPG or compressing images. - Only make refundable bookings, and show me each one before booking. - Fill in the form but stop before submitting so I can check every field. - Tell me straight away about anything you can't do so I can do it myself. - If a site asks me to sign in, pause and let me do it myself (including any CAPTCHA or two-step code); never guess or store passwords. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: A checklist with what's done and what's left, and the filled form ready for my review. You'll know it worked when: the application is submitted with everything the instructions ask for.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about anything important that's missing below. Keep them quick. Then do the task, checking in with me at the key points. Goal: Help me prepare and fill in a visa application, and tell me everything the instructions require before we start. What I can give you (ask for whatever's missing): - The visa type and the official application site: [DETAILS] - My travel dates and plans: [DETAILS] - Where my documents are (email, drive): [DETAILS] Rules: - Read the official instructions first and give me a full checklist of documents, bookings and file requirements (format, size). - Prepare files to meet the requirements, for example converting PDFs to JPG or compressing images. - Only make refundable bookings, and show me each one before booking. - Fill in the form but stop before submitting so I can check every field. - Tell me straight away about anything you can't do so I can do it myself. - If a site asks me to sign in, pause and let me do it myself (including any CAPTCHA or two-step code); never guess or store passwords. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Double-check the checklist against the official instructions once more before I submit. Output: A checklist with what's done and what's left, and the filled form ready for my review. You'll know it worked when: the application is submitted with everything the instructions ask for. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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https://x.com/sherlockieee/status/2099371464969589123
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