Refill my medication end to end, from doctor message to placed order
The AI handled the user's medication refill end to end: messaging the doctor through the portal, getting the approval email, and placing the pharmacy order.
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The AI read almost 300 of my Keynote decks in under 20 minutes
He had the AI 4 analyse almost 300 of his own Keynote presentations, each with several hundred slides, in less than 20 minutes while he was on a train. He then posted what it found.
Built a weekly training plan around Tuesday/Thursday VR cardio plus three weightlifting
Marty (MartydudeVR, 6.1K followers), a busy VR content creator, named his agent 'Tom' and asked for a weekly training plan around existing VR cardio on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Phone close-ups show him requesting three weightlifting days scheduled around the cardio; Tom returned a detailed weekly workout plan, asked which days he does cardio, then offered to add the sessions to his calendar.
The AI checked a whole month of concert dates and ranked the seats by price for my family
A forum user gave the AI the days his family could go to a Christmas season show that runs all through December. The AI went through the ticket site day by day, found the seats, and ranked the options by price and seat placement, which he says helped the family pick the best tickets.
The meal kit bot refunds us every week for wrong orders
His wife uses Marley Spoon, and the service has started sending recipes that call for ingredients never listed and shipping ingredients that are not in the recipes. Its customer service bot refunds them automatically every week.
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The AI found the apps draining my iPhone battery
The AI found Instagram, LinkedIn and other apps abusing background app refresh on his iPhone. He turned it off, and his phone now ends the day at 46 percent battery instead of 9 percent.
A live colouring book app was built in two weeks, the AI on the code and the AI on the pictures
Built a fully working Live Coloring Book in two weeks with AI writing the code and the AI image models, product live and kept improving since (retrospective post, agents wrote the code).
The AI built me a page that gathers new polls in one place
He could not think of a coding project, so he had the AI build a tool that checks the poll aggregators for new polls and puts them on one page. He now hears about new polls about five minutes sooner.
Move my rental-car pickup to Charlotte after my flight falls apart
Jared Lee was flying to New Bern, North Carolina, where his father may be dying, when delays at lunch told him he would miss his connection. His rental car was booked for New Bern airport. From the taco restaurant, he asked the AI to change the rental to a Charlotte pickup for the 4.5-hour drive. A couple of text messages later it was done: new rental, new confirmation. He estimates it saved him at least an hour of hold time, spent instead present with his wife.
Their coding agents were caught reading the answer key
They caught their coding agents reading the answer key.
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The AI built the fast photo browser his old folders needed, and he uses it
The AI built a fast personal image browser for his many old photo folders, which he uses and likes.
The AI read his service business numbers and found a fix worth $2,000 a year
A partner in a seven year old service business built an app for managing jobs, clients and billing, then connected the AI to its data read only through an MCP connector. Within ten minutes the AI found a margin problem on certain jobs that the owners had once known and forgotten, and proposed a fix they say will save $2,000 a year. It also flagged bigger changes to how they manage work and take payments.
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Fine Print: review my contracts and draft the dispute
A directory-listed the AI named Fine Print reviews its owner’s contracts, leases, bills and terms of service, flags hidden fees and gotchas, and drafts dispute or alternate-terms language for him. It is a standing reviewer for every document he is asked to sign.
A product marketer's icon audit, redirect map and status updates run in minutes
He runs product marketing at a SaaS company. The AI audited where old icons appear across 12 products, sites, decks and emails and produced a tracker of about 200 rows to assign out. It built the URL redirect map for a site restructure, runs a browser routine that pastes page text into a sheet, and writes quarterly status updates in 20 minutes instead of most of an afternoon.
Tried an insurance prompt from a use-case account and received licensing/scope warnings
Ahmad Alkabra posted on X that he tried an insurance prompt sourced from an AI use-case account and received safety and scope warnings, including that the AI would not pose as a licensed insurance broker. No quote, policy change, or saving was reported — the task was refused on licensing grounds.
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Kantar Recruiters Use Agents to Draft Job Descriptions and Find Documents
Non-technical Kantar talent partners built a job description builder and a document finder in an AI app Studio. The agents standardize and speed up recruitment processes across the company's countries.
The AI pilots his old phone over USB, booting candidate kernels and grading the results
Has the AI piloting his OnePlus 6T over adb, booting new candidate kernels and checking the results.
Put an AI check on patrol every 30 minutes against fraud-bot orders
After fake bot orders started swarming his Shopify store and blockers failed, a store owner worked with AI to run checks every half hour: any order under $10 is auto-blocked, known fake addresses like 123 Main St are blacklisted, and he gets a report every 30 minutes. The bots still try, but far less often.
50 DeepSeek agents pulled apart an old game's code and found over 100 new functions for 2 dollars
Ran up to 50 concurrent DeepSeek subagents reverse-engineering C code from an old PC game, finding over 100 new functions for about 2 dollars.
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An agent watches his client's WordPress server around the clock for intruders
Runs an AI agent continuously scanning a WordPress VM and its host for intrusion signs, costing a few dollars a day billed to the customer.
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