Level up how you use AI

Run my VPS health check and updates over SSH from the couch

The AI connected to the user's VPS over SSH, ran a health check and applied updates, all directed from the couch.

An LLM ran his training job on rented GPUs with prepaid money and a hard cap

Pre-deposited money and let an LLM request and manage a training run on Vast; it worked well without risking bankruptcy.

Source and order the parts for my DIY bag charm

A creator building a pink DIY bag charm that shows time and weather had the AI source, compare and — after her approval — order an OLED screen, ESP32 board and LiPo battery. The finished charm is shown working on her handbag.

Agents checked every landing page in a startup batch for real customer logos

Ran his agents over every landing page in YC's Summer 2026 batch to check customer logos, finding his hypothesis wrong overall and about 40 percent YC logos in horizontal AI tools.

Added an event to his calendar

Cancel my unused services and correct my overcharges

Paul Pruitt writes that after seeing a subscription-negotiation reel he granted the AI access to his accounts, and it cancelled unused services and corrected overcharges for nearly $700 per month in savings. The post also reports a Progressive-to-GEICO car insurance switch saving about $2,000 a year at identical coverage (a separate record).

A WhatsApp agent books clinic appointments and has handled over 100,000 patient conversations

His company runs a WhatsApp agent for clinics in the UAE that books and reschedules appointments and answers questions about doctor timings, slots and treatment prices. It has handled over 100,000 conversations, costs clients about $100 per 1,000 conversations a month, and hands sensitive cases like gynecology to a human.

An LLM made his TV switch inputs by itself when his computer plugs in

LLM helped develop in about 10 minutes a tray app that watches for a USB device and switches the TV input via the LG API; he no longer touches the remote.

Agents rewrote a production service handling 92 million messages a day into a new language

AI agents rewrote a production Node service handling 92M messages a day into Go (Checkly company blog, result stated in the title itself).

I said call Sarah. The AI tried to call a stranger named Gerald.

He told the AI to call Sarah. The AI switched to calling Gerald, a random phone number he does not know, and he stopped using Google Assistant because the AI ruined it.

Audit my Instagram performance and draft replies to my DMs

Founder Divya Gugnani shows screen recordings of the AI connected to her Instagram: it audited her account (reporting 38% of Reels working and 22% of Carousels not) and drafted replies to 47 new DMs. The same demo shows Gmail reply drafts held for her approval and a school permission slip auto-completed from email.

Created a whole-food crockpot plan (protein + fiber): one-trip grocery list by

Creator asked the AI for a whole-food crockpot meal plan focused on protein and high fiber. It generated a one-trip grocery list organized by category, a 7-day plan (Chicken Taco Chili, Turkey White Bean Kale Soup, Beef Lentil Stew, Salsa Verde Chicken Quinoa Bowls), and compiled it into a printable PDF for the fridge.

The AI files his bug reports, and his agent checks daily whether the fix landed

The AI files his detailed bug reports and his agent pulls the project's new changes daily to check whether his issue is fixed.

Booked a Sunday 10:30 AM brunch reservation at Baltaire in Brentwood through

Seany (verified, 7.9M followers) spent a day exploring 'the coolest and most viral restaurants in LA' with his AI 'Locca' (a fox avatar). Locca suggested Baltaire in Brentwood for its viral tableside cinnamon-roll brunch; Seany booked Sunday Sep 13 at 10:30 AM through the app, visited, tried caviar for the first time, and called the cinnamon roll 'the greatest dessert I've EVER had.' Locca also picked lunch (Faregrounds, Beverly Hills) and dessert (ChocoDip LA, North Hollywood) spots he

Outlook's AI assistant sent me another man's personal emails

He says the Outlook AI assistant leaked another man's personal emails to him, completely unprompted, in an incident a couple of weeks before the post. He calls tools like this leaky and untrustworthy.

I used AI to build a chronology of my life and ancestry. 9,200 entries.

She used AI to create a chronology of her life and her ancestry with about 9,200 entries. She says she can base a memoir, a biography, or a family tree on it, and that the AI is good at coordinating the data even if it cannot write the book.

I photographed my Lego sets and my agent filed all the manuals in my iCloud Drive

He says he took pictures of his Lego sets and asked the AI to download the manuals and organize them into folders in his iCloud Drive. It worked great.

I forgot to charge my bike batteries. Now a dashboard the AI built warns me.

He forgot to charge the batteries for his road bike's electronic shifting before a ride last week. After a weekend of back and forth with AI, he now has a dashboard that can alert him when things need to be charged.

I passed a brand new AWS exam with AI drills and a Notion study hub

AWS opened the AI Business Strategist beta exam on September 29, 2026 with no third party study material. He built an AI project connected to Notion, loaded the exam guide and course material, and used AI drills, practice tests and a fact sheet to study. He sat the exam on its first day and passed.

My agent turns my streaming services on and off on a schedule I approved

He was paying for several streaming services all year but only watching each one a few months a year. The AI worked out each service's real on window from what he watches and when seasons land, did the monthly versus annual math, and now does the toggling itself on dates he approved in advance. Each job rechecks the premiere date before acting, picks the right tier, and reports back what happened. If a cancel fails it tells him instead of retrying forever. Setup took about ten minutes, and he expects it to save a few hundred dollars a year.