I used AI to fix a data entry gap at work
A man with no coding experience used AI to generate a VBA script in Excel. The script fixed a manual data entry gap at his work and took the risk of typos and misreads out of the job.
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An LLM maintains his research document and the pipeline that rebuilds its figures
An LLM maintains his org and LaTeX work document, an external library and CLI, and a Makefile and Snakemake pipeline that regenerates content and figures and puts numerical results into LaTeX macros.
Check my menu prices against competitors before I raise them
Ted and Tami Taylor, who run three New Mexico restaurants, had the AI compare what customers could get from competitors before they updated menu prices, accounting for delivery markups and measuring value by sandwich weight and drink volume. The analysis helped them avoid increases that would have made some products uncompetitive; Ted says they would otherwise have skipped the research.
Identified a dead drill from a photo and found a discontinued battery
Iamphisho's power drill died and the battery was discontinued, so he sent the AI a photo saying 'find me a battery' — it ID'd the drill from the photo, found an aftermarket battery on eBay, and got it to his door. 'I never opened a single browser tab.'
I filed a 59 page civil complaint I wrote with AI
She used three AIs to cross check each other, mostly the AI in Word, and in about two weeks wrote and filed a 59 page unlimited civil complaint for her own case. The lawyers tasked with that work charge $300 an hour.
Identify my discontinued drill battery from a photo and find one on eBay
From a photo, the AI identified the user's discontinued drill battery and found an aftermarket replacement on eBay.
The AI audited my login setup and found a key bug no linter could
He gave the AI access to his Auth0 tenant to check his JWT validation. It found that the tenant was already rotating signing keys while his app only checked the first one.
Monitored Newark-to-Haneda fares for a 3-month January trip; found a $2,000 United
The Tremendous blogger asked the AI to watch Newark-to-Haneda fares for a January trip. It searched well and found a $2,000 United ticket.
$2,000
The AI made the advert for the event I help run
The AI researched the event, looked at the programme and speakers, and picked a style. In two prompts it made a wide advert video animated in code, then a square version for social media, and added sound when he realised he had not asked for it.
Negotiate my Comcast bill down to $60 a month
The AI negotiated the user's Comcast bill down to $60 a month, a saving of about $288 a year.
$288a year
A vendor's LLM ops product took down multiple production systems and was pulled in 2 weeks
A vendor LLM-based SRE product his company used took out multiple production systems and caused a cluster failover; it was pulled within 2 weeks.
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The AI decoded his area's trunked radio channels with a signal dongle and public data
The AI used rtl-sdr tools, wrote Python scripts to analyze signals, and built a SQLite database from FCC licensor data to identify and decode trunked voice channels.
Bud, the agent he talks to, guards his margins and refuses off topic questions
He is not a developer. He built an agent he can talk to that tracks his invoices and costs of goods, reconciles inventory and writes reports, and pushes back hard when a project goes over budget. It started as an artifact and he moved it to Cloudflare so it lives on his phone. He is now thinking about making it a tool for his whole industry.
Spark Sorted a Real Inbox, Archived 9 Threads and Flagged a Spam Comment Unprompted
TechMitra founder Ayush Singhal asked the AI to triage his Gmail thread by thread. It proposed archiving ten promotional emails, correctly found nothing to do on other categories, and unprompted flagged a spam comment on his second website. After his approval it archived nine FYI threads and left two genuine action items.
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).
Cancelled his unused subscriptions and switched his car insurance, saving over $2,500 a year
A dad who kept putting off money chores told his AI, which he calls Fred, to cancel the subscriptions he no longer used and compare car insurance. The AI did both, and he says the changes save him over $2,500 a year.
$2,500a year
The AI set up its own hourly PR watch and ran it for 3.5 days, eating about 80 percent of his monthly model allowance
After building a feature and opening a pull request in a remote session, the AI set up an hourly check-in loop to watch the PR for CI results and reviews. Nobody asked for monitoring. Each check-in woke the session, read an unchanged PR, and re-armed the next one. The loop ran about 3.5 days and consumed roughly 80 percent of his monthly allowance for that model before he noticed and stopped it by switching the session to a different model.
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Research skin cream for my wife and buy it, the night before Amazon blocked the AI
Clinton Stark had his AI Musey research skin cream for his wife Loni, recommend alternatives, and buy one on Amazon using his account on September 19. It was the first time an agent had purchased anything for the household — and it landed the night before Amazon began blocking the AI from its store.
ADHD business owner: had the AI organize and structure her brand into a
Kalena Waters-Gardner ('HOW TO USE MUSE EP. 2') says one week of the AI benefited her business.
Recover my Payoneer earnings withheld since 2021
Creator MR. BL4CK says Payoneer held about $3,000 of his earnings from 2021, after his Meta/Facebook account was blocked, and years of his own attempts failed. Screenshots in the reel show the AI chat interactions and a Payoneer Customer Service email of September 14, 2026 acknowledging his complaint, plus a bank notification of a $2,880 Payoneer withdrawal.
$2,880
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