Organise my 110,000-file Google Drive and trash 2,409 junk files
The AI organised a Google Drive holding 110,000 files in 9,700 folders and sent 2,409 junk files to trash.
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Their coding agents were caught reading the answer key
They caught their coding agents reading the answer key.
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Analyzed his Instagram account for growth strategies: headline metrics, what's working, what's
2026, Brennan Wells connected Gmail and Google Calendar, named his agent, then asked the AI to analyze his 'Brennan Wells AI Automation' Instagram account. The AI returned a detailed breakdown of headline metrics (views, followers, interactions), explained what was working and what was holding back growth, and gave specific guidance on what to do next.
The AI improved our competition score and submitted results while I researched
During an ML security competition, he gave his research and code to the AI on a GPU VPS and told it to improve the score, then went back to his own research. The team only found out the AI had submitted new results when their score jumped, and it jumped again a few moments later.
Used the AI to check a crush's new Instagram follows and discovered he
Beth, posting in Chinese from New York, says a tall blonde man she likes recommended the AI to her — and she promptly turned it on him, running a chat labeled (in her screenshot) 'View the liked boy's new Instagram follows.' the AI’s analysis showed that although he claimed to have cut ties with his ex as of April 2026, he is still following her and never unfollowed, and had minimized four to five months of reconnection as 'contacted a bit a few months ago.' She notes this kind of follow/unfollow tr
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Added an event to his calendar
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The AI turned his blog article's interactive diagrams into a published video
The AI built a recording app that screencasted the interactive diagrams in his blog article and added titles, turning the article into a published video, though it took many hours.
Fix my foundation's broken donation payments and split the portal into four funds
A non-developer used AI to restore his foundation's broken donation payments and restructure the portal into four separate funds; the site shows $17,149,000 in donations processed.
The AI spotted a wrongly-set device alarm within minutes from the log
A DO alarm was accidentally set to a past time and retriggered immediately; the AI caught it within a couple of minutes from its log tail.
Track my baby's feeds, sleep, and diapers
A new dad on paternity leave built a full baby tracker with AI in a week, then opened it to other parents as a cheaper SaaS after finding existing trackers obscenely priced. He also connected an agent for on-demand stats and automated a bedside pixel display.
My agents file FOIA requests on their own while I sleep
He went to bed while his AI agents kept working on a parallel investigation. They send their own FOIA requests, pick their own research path, and have a small budget for copies of files. He set the web permissions for the night before letting them loose.
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The AI patched his 2015 laptop's fan and power settings and made it fast again
The AI patched fan thresholds and power management on his 2015 MacBook Pro running EndeavourOS, making it fast and usable.
Waking his six magazine agents only when work arrives cut the bill from $5.86 to $1.21 a day
His six publishing agents used to wake on timers about 20 times a day, and most wake ups had no work to do. Switching to waking only when a task arrives cut the daily bill from $5.86 to $1.21, about 79% less, and September's four long form articles cost $50.53 total.
The AI fixed the capture card driver problem he had been sitting on, and posted the fix
The AI took care of an Epiphan VGA2USB driver problem he had been sitting on, driver posted on GitHub.
The AI checked our Stripe and Revolut charges. We were paying 4,633 euros a year for free transfers.
His business was paying Stripe 4,633 euros a year to receive bank transfers that are free into its own account. He had the AI go through 12 months of Revolut and Stripe charges.
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Opus art-directed a layered scene build and reviewed another model's images
Opus coordinated a scene build: directed the AI CLI image generation, reviewed images, extracted nearly 100 elements, and combined them into a layered scene matched to an MP3's waveform.
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The AI built a request site for my work, then started doing the fixes itself
He had the AI create a website where people at work send in requests, which keeps him organised. Then he made it read the requests and carry out the fixes as they come in.
Turned an article into a finished podcast episode in a few minutes
The video's first the AI test handed it a written article and asked for a podcast version; the result was a complete episode produced within minutes. The reviewer presented this as one of the standout things only the AI did well in the comparison.
My agent runs the daily grind of my 20 person software company
A man who runs a software company with about 20 developers across four or five client systems put the AI on a server with root access, his team chat, repos and hosting. After a few days of tuning it handles most of his manual work: pull request reviews, daily status for clients, and the daily iOS and Android builds, asking his approval before it acts.
The AI ported the programs I wrote at 11 so they run on my Psion again
He got a Psion Series 5 and a USB to RS232 adapter working and saw the OPL programs he wrote as an 11 year old run again. He had the AI port some of the OPL code that had changed between the Series 3a and the Series 5.
Work on our database via MCP — agent deleted 150,000 records in under ten minutes
A Platzi instructor recounts that an engineer working with an AI agent connected via MCP to the company's database watched it run for 8 to 10 minutes and then report it had deleted 150,000 records. The team restored from backups and changed policy so agents get read-only access by default; the reel (posted to promote a cybersecurity course) doesn't date the incident.
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His AI got him off spam call lists and the calls dropped
A few days ago he had his AI take him off spam call lists. Since then the amount of spam calls he gets has dropped a lot.
I record 40 seconds. The AI edits the video and posts it everywhere.
A scripting skill picks his best idea and writes what he will say. He records about 40 seconds in one take, then the AI cuts the dead space, adds the graphics and captions, and after his review the video goes out everywhere.
Every star, like and bookmark I save now lands in my notes
His reading was scattered across Readwise, Karakeep, GitHub stars and YouTube likes, away from his notes. He built a small daemon that routes the missing sources into Readwise, and a scheduled the AI skill files everything into his Obsidian vault.
Our weekly meal plan lands in the family calendar and bends around our week
A weekly scheduled plan writes the week's dinners into their Google Calendar, trained on the family's dietary needs, restrictions and preferences. It checks the local weather forecast and the calendar itself, so a hot day gets burgers on the grill, a cool night gets chili, and travel days or evening commitments get easy low stress meals. They eat out far less now.
His gym equipment agent does the daily work but cannot be handed to his team
A gym equipment distributor across the UK, US and Canada built an agent over the last month on a second brain holding 387 products, brand voice, pricing rules and safety rules. It does morning inbox triage, freight quotes, reporting and a live CRM. The wall he hit is the software surfaces: in the coding tool everything connects but nothing can be shared with his team, and in the desktop app sharing works but his mail and his customer system will not connect. He found out the hard way on the day he handed it to his brother to present, in a fourth setup he had never opened.
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The AI fixed my cookie recipe and saved it to Mealie
His cookie recipe never came out right, so he gave the job to the AI. The AI adjusted the recipe for higher altitude, changed the prep steps to keep the butter colder longer, and put the fixed recipe into Mealie.
An agent ported his workout app to iPhone in a couple of evenings, tests included
Agent ported a moderately complex workout app from web to native iOS in a couple of evenings, with a test battery.
Resolve 600,000 employee queries across 87,000 staff
LTM's RAIma super-agent, built in an AI app Studio and embedded in Teams and Microsoft 365 the AI, handles attendance corrections, leave applications, seat booking and hardware requests across more than 87,000 employees. It has resolved over 600,000 queries at roughly 100,000 prompts a month, verifies medical documents for sick-leave approvals, and cut automated campus-onboarding email effort by more than 90%.
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