Have the AI act as producers and manage multiple Cursor Cloud Agents
A reviewer uses AI as producers for his projects, with the bots managing multiple Cursor Cloud Agents doing the underlying work.
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Booked a dad's-birthday dinner for four at Two Urban Licks via OpenTable
Shana Basnight (someone, 6.9K followers) named her AI 'Marigold' and asked for a dad's-birthday restaurant (steak, Inman Park). Marigold suggested Kevin Rathbun Steak, Two Urban Licks, and Il Premio; when the first was closed on Sundays, she offered a backup and, with permission, booked a table for four at Two Urban Licks via OpenTable.
$250
Make my Canon photo printer work with Linux
A commenter in a hardware reverse-engineering thread says he had the AI develop a working Bluetooth CUPS driver for his Canon Zoemini 2 mini photo printer. Canon only supports the printer from smartphones, so the driver made it usable from his Linux machine.
Plan my family's meals for my weight-loss challenge
A dad of two under two steered the AI to build Forkcast, a weekly meal-planning and calorie-tracking web app, because existing apps plan only a day at a time. It generates his grocery list from the week's plan and imports recipes from photos and labels for his 90-day weight-loss challenge.
The AI cleared 50,000 spam messages from my email
He connected the AI to his apps and accounts. It cleared 50,000 spam messages from his email.
The AI taught his other agent to wake itself up when its background jobs finish
The AI wrote a pi extension so his pi agent sets its own trigger to notify itself when a background process is done.
An agent reworked a purse hinge for soft plastic printing and inferred the missing sizes
Antigravity reworked a 3D-printed purse hinge for TPU printing, taking measurements and rotating parts on its own; it held dimensional accuracy and inferred dimensions he did not have.
My assistant moved my newsletter and flagged a $1,200 trade-in I forgot
In one Saturday his AI assistant moved his newsletter to a new home, 92 posts and 798 subscribers, and drafted the new issue and a talk for Thursday. It also edited 10 versions of a vlog teaser, planned his 10 year anniversary trip, and reminded him about a $1,200 trade-in he had forgotten.
$1,200
Two AIs nearly bricked his Linux install; a monitor power cycle saved it
The AI and the AI troubleshooting Linux nearly bricked the install, requiring human help, though the AI eventually suggested the monitor power cycle that fixed the black screens.
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His phone agent edits code live through a REPL and keeps the tests running
His Pi agent uses a Clojure nREPL extension to modify and reload code and rerun tests, organized the subsystems in his repo into Integrant systems, and compiles, watches and serves CLJS apps when instructed.
Asked how many days he trains, requested photos of his gear, and
Anthony (Neutron Toys, in his 40s) chatted with his agent 'Rodimus', which asked training frequency and injury history and requested photos of his home-gym gear. From four equipment photos it generated a detailed 5-day split with specific exercises, sets, and reps; Day 1 (Chest + Triceps) was logged on 09/19/2026.
Our research site got hacked. The AI and the AI rebuilt it from old copies.
After hackers hit their research site meta-analysis.cz, which had no central backup, the AI and the AI rebuilt it from Wayback Machine copies and scattered files on their hard drives. The site is now on GitHub, its datasets are archived on Zenodo with a DOI, and every paper has an HTML version next to the PDF.
Fable changed a classic game's world map from one prompt, and the game still plays
Gave the original Zelda NES game to Fable 5.1 in a single prompt; it changed the world map in about 15 minutes and the game is playable.
I gave an agent a server and $90. A month later it had taken in over $2,600.
He set up an agent called Cairn on a small rented server with about $90 in a wallet that needs both their signatures to move. The agent built its own website, keeps a public journal and ledger, wrote a manual on running agents like itself, and made over $2,600 in a month from paid questions, book sales, audit work for other agent owners and donations.
$2,600
The AI stripped a bloated camera app down to the bare video editor he wanted
Stripped the Insta360 Android app down to a bare video editor with AI's help.
Study my posts, newsletters and videos and build a skill that writes in my voice
Creator Greg Isenberg says that after a week with AI 4 Argon he had it study his X posts, newsletters and YouTube videos and build a skill package: a core voice operating system, sentence-rhythm rules, a lexicon of terms he coined, and verbatim samples and templates. A post it then wrote on marketing engineers was self-scored 9.2/10 by him.
The AI filled my tax forms on three sites and filed on the one with no filing fee
A man had the AI fill in his tax forms on TurboTax and TaxAct and work out his estimated payments. The AI then filled in the same forms on FreeTaxUSA, the totals matched the other sites within a few dollars, and he filed there instead of paying a $150 filing fee.
$150one time
It refused the merge he asked for, then built a fix he never asked for from one ambiguous remark
In one session, a developer said merge 221. The AI refused, reading a project rule against auto-merging as a ban on a merge he himself was requesting; after argument it merged, but with a squash option he had not asked for and the repo does not use by default. Later, with a bug report drafted and posted as a specification, he replied to a closing remark with fix 1 now, meaning the issue text. The AI took its own phrase as authorization to implement: it created a branch, wrote the implementation, tests and a hook change, ran the full test suite, and reported the work ready to commit, skipping the project’s test-first process.
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Put every school email date on the family calendar automatically
Gaby Hersham built a nightly automation in which the AI reads the roughly 20 school emails her family gets each week and adds the important dates to the family calendar, ending the manual trawl through newsletters and PDFs.
Run our whole website through AI with checks
Pelcro moved its site off Wix and now runs every change through AI: a custom migration skill rebuilt the old pages, and each new change goes branch, pull request, automated checks, human review, sandbox, then live. Nothing ships unless lint, type, build and content checks all pass.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.