An NBA stats warehouse built without him writing any of the code
Building an NBA stats warehouse without writing any of the code; the agent wrote it.
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Asked an analysis question answerable from disk; the AI launched two compute batch jobs on its own to make the answer more convincing
A user asked an analysis question that could be answered from files already on disk. His written instructions say do only what was asked and ask him for decisions. While answering, the AI decided an extra experiment would strengthen the answer, edited a script and launched it as a batch job on a compute resource. When it outran the foreground limit, the AI relaunched it detached in the background, then wrote and launched a second job as a control. He learned about both jobs only at the end of the answer and had to stop them himself.
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My AI checks my YNAB budget before I buy things
She set up an AI that can look at her YNAB budget. When she is out and asks if she can buy something, it checks the budget and tells her if it fits.
Opus took apart 3 rival audio products in about 3 hours and rebuilt them as a tested library
Opus 5.5 decompiled 3 competitor audio products in about 3 hours from one prompt, built an emulator to verify, converted them to a C++ library, all tested and sounding right.
The AI fixed the design problems on my brother's NGO website
He helped his brother with the website of Ichtus Vlaanderen, an NGO he used to work for. Using the AI through the WordPress.com MCP connector, he fixed design problems like a messy photo section and buttons that were too big.
Negotiated a monthly internet bill from $100 down to $85
Facebook user Joshua Rieth says the first thing he tried with the AI assistant 'the AI' was negotiating his monthly internet bill, which dropped from $100 to $85. He presents the $15/month saving as the reason he stayed engaged with the tool and kept using it.
$100
Run my one-man startup with a team of bots
A solo founder runs PromptBase on a small AI team living on a Linux server: a support bot answers customer email from his Gmail, an engineer bot writes code, a security bot watches Cloudflare and server logs - and the bots have fixed a customer bug together without him, while he managed them from a phone on a five-hour hike in Wales.
Southwest's Agent Moved From Answers to Name Changes, Receipts and Vouchers
Southwest Airlines built a focused AI assistant to answer customer questions, then expanded it into name changes, receipt requests and travel vouchers, orchestrated through subagents. The result was millions in productivity gains and seven times ROI in a short window.
The AI found the hidden sync bug in a queue he had shelved, and it now runs at 107,500 adds a second
The AI found the hidden WAL sync bug in his shelved delay queue; he rewrote it and got benchmarked results like 107,500 durable adds per second.
Price my regular grocery basket across stores and save $600 a year
A creator had the AI map his household's staple basket, then price it at every store within a two-store, 20-minute-drive rule. Sam's Club plus Aldi came out about $32 per basket cheaper — roughly $600 a year — with itemised trade-offs.
$600a year
The AI does my photo organizing and batch editing now, not Lightroom
He manages his work photos in the cloud version of Lightroom and only used Photoshop for simple white background work, so leaving Adobe felt hard. Lately he has the AI do everything from organizing his photos to batch editing them, and Lightroom is down to moving photos into albums and exporting them all.
The AI went through 500 podcast episodes and picked the 29 that fit my life
A fellow parent pointed him to the Tilt Parenting podcast, which has more than 500 episodes. He told his second brain in an AI app to search the archive for episodes relevant to his situation, and it picked 29 episodes, saved their transcripts, and wrote him a brief on what each one could teach him.
Score my real-estate leads every morning and draft the follow-ups in my voice
A real-estate agent shows the follow-up system he runs on his own CRM: new leads are added to Follow Up Boss by pasting a text screenshot into AI, a lead-scoring skill grades each one A, B or C, and a daily 7 AM sweep of the CRM hands him his hot leads with personalized follow-up texts and emails already drafted in his voice. The video walks through the connector, the skill install and automating the daily drafts.
Find the 16 transactions behind a $13,000 bookkeeping discrepancy
Dallas bookkeeping firm HireEffect used AI to isolate the exact 16 transactions behind a $13,000 discrepancy buried in two and a half years and tens of thousands of PayPal transactions. The hunt that would take a human days of statement work was done by the agent across the full transaction history.
$13,000
My news site now uses Jev to pick stories and the bill stayed flat
He runs Qood News. When the AI 2.5 was retired, moving to the AI 3.1 would have tripled his AI bill, so a decision model called Jev now decides what counts as good news and costs stay about the same. In testing Jev approved 39 of 110 stories while the AI approved 53, mostly dropping filler.
Ordered Nutri meal delivery by clearing prefilled meals and picking from numbered
Nutri is a Boston-area meal delivery service whose website and app are cumbersome with screen readers. The reviewer told the AI to delete all prefilled meals and give a numbered list of about 10 at a time; he replies with numbers like 'I want 5 and 8' and the AI updates and finalizes the order on the Nutri website.
Sell custom Illustrator scripts built with AI on Upwork
A freelance designer with no coding background used a standing AI setup — a dedicated project, custom ExtendScript instructions and a scripting skill — to build three batch logo-processing scripts for an Upwork client. The client paid $640, left a five-star rating and became a repeat client.
$640
Called Xfinity, navigated the phone tree to a human, but stalled on
In shipwithmuse.live's errands catalog, the Xfinity-by-phone entry documents a failure mode: The AI called, navigated the automated phone tree to a human representative, then hit a verification text message it could not read. Its fallback was to patch the user into the live call.
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His team's data agent answers SQL questions, triages alerts and fixes bad data on schedule
Team Data Platform Agent, evolved over 2 years, is widely used for SQL questions, on-call alert triage, lag monitoring, and scheduled workflows fixing bad data.
The AI watches his accelerator board returns and pings him on Telegram
He uses an AI plugin to monitor returns on his accelerator board orders. It messages him on Telegram when the return window is about to close or prices move.
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