Manus is an AI Agent platform whereby it has it's own Ubuntu terminal and full autonomy over that VM. You give it a prompt, it asks clarifying questions, it then does what you ask it to do. So far I've tried it with creating two projects.

Test Apps Created

  1. A voice to command windows app.

This is to listen for a keypress, record the microphone, convert that audio to text, convert that text through an LLM to keyboard output. Why? Imagine you're in an email, you can now press the Ctrl+Shirt+R key, say "Write a response email to Sarah that I can make the 9am meeting tomorrow". Instead of dictating the email, just tell the keyboard what to type. It's basically a half way house between an fully automated AI agentic system and using chatgpt with copy/paste.

It took around 10 minutes of thinking, compiling, refining, building time and it then gave me a zip file with all the source files done ready to build and run locally. Pretty cool!

  1. The ideal job app.

This one is an enhancment on those 'career days' we had a school. It asks a bunch of questions and selects the job most suited to your requirements... the key difference is we all know we like variety. The idea of doing the only job forever is pretty dull and we have aspirations to try new things in life. This quiz can be taken at any stage of your career and it will ask dynamic questions to home in on what your ideal job is right now. For instance a new mother may have different job requirements from a student starting out in a new industry.

It's been thinking away, building this project for over 19 minutes now... let's see what happens but so far I'm incredibly impressed with Manus.

Update

Here's what it built, although guessing this is a temporary VM.

Your Ideal Job Role Searcher

It works, very impressive and only required 3 refinements before it was usable.