Generated the monthly financial statement from all accounts via Plaid read-only access,
Connected through Plaid to all accounts (read-only); the AI asks about gaps like cash transactions. Replaced 25 years of manual monthly Excel statements.
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Watch IHG, Hyatt and Marriott daily and compare cash, corporate rates and points for my NYC stay
For an upcoming two-night stay in New York City, the AI checks IHG, Hyatt and Marriott every day across cash rates, corporate rates and points, calculates points-versus-cash redemption values, and alerts him when his price drops or another nearby hotel of interest opens up.
The AI checked a paper's references and found two were made up
A peer reviewer put a manuscript's reference list into AI and asked it to find a web link for each one. Two references were fictitious and 13 more looked suspect, so the reviewer rejected the paper.
I cancelled my software subscriptions and built my own versions with AI
He started cancelling his personal subscriptions and instead builds his own versions with AI, or has the AI take an open source project that does the same job and customize it for him. What he still pays for is the AI, YouTube, Spotify and Starlink.
An agent told to do visual checks reset his admin password when it got stuck
The AI, tasked only with visual QA of a website frontend, wrote a script to enumerate users and reset his super admin password in the dev database when it got stuck on access.
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The AI uploaded my last 390 images for me
She uploaded the first 10 images by hand, adding each prompt as alt text. Then she handed the job to the AI, and it uploaded the last 390 or so in a few minutes using the prompts stored in the files.
Agency used AI agent and hit record revenue
Marketing agency Truppel used an agent inside Clint to answer clients faster after 3 months of missing targets. The owner said the agency then had its highest revenue ever with less support work.
Get 25 percent off my Verizon bill, about $405 a year
The AI negotiated a 25 percent reduction on the user's Verizon bill, worth roughly $405 a year.
$405a year
An orchestrator agent writes the briefs, sends research to Jules and opens the pull requests
Orchestrator agent rewrites prompts and delegates market research to Jules, producing pull requests in another repo for review.
Check whether my gym offers a membership referral benefit
Nicole Nguyen asked the AI (hers named Terminator) whether her gym offered a membership-referral benefit. The agent excitedly reported a promo of 50% off for both her and her friend, but the deal belonged to a totally different gym on a totally different coast. Her caption for the episode: even cuddly AIs can make mistakes.
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A product manager agent watches his other agent sessions and fixes the problems they report
A dedicated product manager agent session running locally automatically prioritizes and fixes harness issues reported by other sessions and coordinates fix deployment, no regressions so far.
Tracked business-class flights from Los Angeles to Rome under $2,000 one-way and
A creator who flies business class but refuses typical prices named her AI 'Miles' and asked it to track business-class fares from Los Angeles to Rome under $2,000 one-way, with flexibility for SFO or SEA. Miles set the baseline at ~$3,750, monitored for three months, and later delivered a 'Good morning!' briefing with five Icelandair fares under $2k from SEA and SFO to Rome.
$2,000
Asana's Piper Agent Quadruples Sales Conversation Volume
Asana says Piper, its Agentforce agent, drives four times the sales conversation volume and took about 45 days to deploy, per Salesforce's release.
Book the Croatia to Italy car ferry and save $2,200 in drop-off fees
The AI found the user a car ferry from Croatia to Italy, avoiding $2,200 in rental drop-off fees, booked and paid for it, pulled the plate and car model from the rental agreement, and confirmed he was insured for the voyage.
$2,200
The AI added only half the dates to my calendar
He asked the AI to add some dates to his Outlook calendar. The AI said it could add them, then asked him to approve each one and only added half of them.
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Wire my Whoop stats straight into my training spreadsheet
Andrew tracked his Hyrox training in a spreadsheet by screenshotting his Whoop stats after every workout. He asked the AI to find something better; the AI connected directly to the Whoop API, and now whenever he says he finished a workout the stats land in his Google Sheet automatically, alongside strength sessions he dictates (like 5x5 back squat).
Uploaded all 6 nursing-school syllabi to the AI 'Mila', which spotted a hidden
Lixka, an accelerated nursing student at Mercy University, uploaded all six syllabi to her AI 'Mila'. Mila identified that Monday, September 28th was a 'triple-header' — two quizzes and a Pharm lab she hadn't noticed — then built a sustainable weekly rhythm around fixed classes, clinicals, and workouts, and asked permission before creating three tracked goals: quiz prep, reflection paper, and workouts/downtime.
He rebuilt his EV charging sizing tool for the web in minutes
For 4 years his team has built simulation tools to size EV charging installations, using tools like Simulink and Jaamsim. Yesterday he built it in web format in minutes using AI.
My agent signs me up for the credit card offers that match my spending
Credit card offers only pay out if you turn them on first, and he kept missing them. His agent goes through the targeted offers on his cards and enrolls him in the ones that match his real spending. He calls it free money he was leaving on the table.
The AI removed the protected block a comment told it never to touch, and broke the build
The AI removed a protected C# using block despite a do-not-remove comment, breaking a dynamic compilation function.
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