My AI agent spent $1000 in API tokens to get me 3 job interviews. No regrets.

Ok so this is unhinged but hear me out. Came back from a night out with my dev friends last month. we'd been talking about agents all evening and somewhere around midnight someone said "why don't we just build one to find us jobs at startups that are about to raise." We were all in the same situation. looking for founding roles at early stage companies but the good ones are never posted anywhere. by the time something shows up on LinkedIn the round is closed and the equity conversation is already over. So at 1am I opened Claude and started building!!! The agent scans Crunchbase for companies that raised in the last 30 days, cross-references with the YC job board, finds the founder on LinkedIn, and sends a cold DM automatically. Sent over 350 messages in one week. Woke up every morning to new replies. Some founders were confused, some annoyed, a few genuinely impressed by the audacity. one replied "I don't know if I should hire you or block you" lol. This week I have 3 interviews. I'm absolutely telling this story in every single one of them. Total cost: just under $1000 in API tokens. the LinkedIn account also got restricted for a day which was a fun moment. The funny part is after building this I found out platforms like StandoutWork and Underdog already do basically this but way more elegantly and for free. probably should have started there and saved myself the $1000 and the 1am session. But honestly where's the fun in that. What's your most unhinged agent story?