The win came from one small recommendation, not autonomy. Oxy says the Houston center now supports all 12 of its Delaware Basin rigs and a Gulf of America drillship and has made more than 1,000 recommendations.
One user had an AI agent find his phone number on listing sites and file the removal requests, then shared it as a free skill. It's small, but it shows an agent doing a tedious paperwork chore from start to finish.
The post describes Claude Code turning a bracket drawing into an editable model with named dimensions. It flagged a missing wall thickness instead of guessing. 34 of 40 sample parts passed the checks. For engineering teams, the useful part is the flag, not the speed.
Tesla developer accounts include $10 a month in API calls at about $0.002 each, enough for one user to have an agent alert him when his truck is low and not plugged in. Fleet managers could build the same alerts cheaply.