I told the AI to change the picture on my Samsung TV. It did.
He told the AI to scan his home network for his Samsung Frame TV and replace the picture in its art mode. The AI found the TV and swapped the picture.
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Log into DoorDash and get my refunds from support chat
An AI user runs the agent on a headless home server with his DoorDash and email credentials stored in 1Password. The AI logs into DoorDash with a skill it built itself and chats with support reps, and the user says it now gets refunds issued with no issue where DoorDash had turned stingy with him.
The AI rescued his blog from a dead platform into a static site, every page
The AI took his MediaWiki blog and rendered all pages into a static site after the PHP apps were shut down.
The AI ran a game's demos, diffed the pixels, and patched it deterministic
The AI autonomously ran Quake demo playbacks, took pixel-diff snapshots, compiled a native build and patched the game for determinism, leaving a solid regression test set.
The AI tracks his Disney cruise's staggered booking windows so none are missed
Ahead of a Nov 14 Disney cruise, he credits the AI with tracking the staggered booking milestones — excursions opening in August, online check-in, and a late-night Royal Gathering character meetup — so none of the windows are missed.
He replaced a 1,000 dollar a month review bot with his own harness at about 100 dollars
Replaced Bugbot at 1,000 dollars a month for a small team with a custom OpenCode harness at maybe 100 dollars, rebuilt its features including cross PR memory, added a security reviewer action.
$900a month
Compare festival rentals, and flag which walk home is unlit
Eric's daughter and her friend needed lodging for a music festival in Europe during her study abroad. His Dot, Jarvis, priced four places and annotated each with whether the walk back from the shuttle has streetlights after 10 p.m. When a provider replied in French, Jarvis read it, updated the comparison and said what changed: one rental ruled out, another cheaper but with a longer, uphill, unlit walk home. Eric finished the checkout himself.
Audited email automations before the holiday rush: shut down duplicate flows double-emailing
Before the holiday rush, the AI audited Polk's email automations, shut down duplicate flows that were double-emailing customers, recreated the flows, rebuilt templates, and turned on tracking so she can see which emails drive sales — while she kept running her other businesses.
One model managed a fleet of others to build a full RTS game in 3 days
Fable managing many Opus agents built a playable 3D RTS like StarCraft 2 with 3 races, 40+ units and 40+ buildings in 3 days.
Disputed three collections accounts on Experian; credit score rose 23 points to
Fernando Ocasio (someone) tested the AI for credit repair. He asked it to dispute three old Midland Credit Management accounts in collections on his Experian report; the AI logged into Experian, filed the disputes, and handed control back to him for password entry via Secure Store.
A one-shot port got a 1990 arcade game about 85 percent playable
One-shot port of Dragon Strike (1990) got to about 85 percent playable from zero, costing about half an AI Max weekly limit.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
A GPT agent solved a hacker challenge in about a day that had stood unsolved for years
A GPT agent crunched through a famously hard Disobey conference hacker ticket challenge in an evening and a morning with occasional steering, a challenge unsolved in some years.
Built a print-ready novel activity packet with answer key at 11pm
At 11 p.m., a teacher's the AI built her a complete print-ready activity packet for the novel her class is reading — answer key included. It also sends her a daily morning briefing drawn from her calendar and email.
Spot the discount code I forgot to use and get my refund
Mete Ünal's Dot, Satori, proactively noticed an unused discount code on one of his orders, emailed the company on his behalf and secured a partial refund. His only involvement was replying 'Sure!' when the Dot asked to reach out.
The AI wrote a small PR and, unasked, set up live HTTPS testing for it
The AI wrote a minor pull request for an open source webapp and on its own suggested and actually used Cloudflare Quick Tunnels to test over HTTPS.
The AI moved my hosting. The AI broke the project first.
He used AI to move his hosting service. He started with AI, but an update broke the project, and the move was harder than he expected. With the AI's help he got through it, with a little left to finish.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI made the class video on a court case, music and all
He wanted a short explainer video on the Browne v. Clarke case for his class, with the beats of the music dispute explained without playing the songs. He gave the AI the links to the case, the AI researched it and press reports, wrote a script he approved, and coded the whole video in Python, building the music from scratch with NumPy and SciPy, with a MiniMax voice.
The AI’s decision engine sorts his private photo library at just under 85 percent accuracy
The AI built and optimized his local decision engine for his private image organizer, reaching just under 85 percent accuracy across 500 validation prompts with sub-second responses.
The AI runs his dev machine end to end: commits, deploys, checks the smoke tests
Gave the AI sudo on his dev machine: it commits, pushes, checks pre-push test results, deploys as another user, checks smoke tests, and adjusts the Cloudflare pipeline and environment variables.
My AI sent me four robot vacuums I could compare at a glance
He asked his AI for a pet hair robot vacuum under $500. Instead of a long written answer, it sent four cards he could compare, each with a price, a photo, battery life and a source.
The AI built my StrivePay website, then burned 18,400 credits failing to fix its own errors
A reviewer paid the AI to develop and host his website, StrivePay, but hit repeated technical failures, broken functionality and exposed HTML errors; the 14,400 credits he received on September 25 plus another $20 for 4,000 more were consumed on repair attempts, and his refund request was refused on acceptable-use grounds.
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The AI turned my Mastodon posts into a blog
He had the AI build a blog site out of his own Mastodon posts, and the blog is live. A Python script fetches the posts, tidies them up and pulls threads together into single posts.
Created a tracker for upcoming payments and subscriptions, identified a cluster of
The morning after the Google claim, family-tree audit, and inbox triage, the AI created a tracker for upcoming payments and subscriptions, identified a cluster of bills due within a two-week window, suggested spreading them out, and provided a plan for which companies to call and when.
His tiny software factory runs unsupervised: 5 minutes from a typed wish to a working feature
His miniature software factory runs unsupervised: he pressed Alt+N, typed make TTS streaming, and 5 minutes later his text-to-speech showed words at every pause instead of only at toggle.
5 minsaved
Booked a spontaneous sub-$500 weekend away to Washington, D.C. (train, capsule hostel,
Travel creator Jorden Tually, who says trip planning is exhausting after 4,000+ days of continuous travel, demonstrated the AI on Instagram on Oct 16, 2026. He asked for a spontaneous weekend away under $500; the AI built a Washington, D.C.
$500
An agent built a compiler prototype that outran Node, Bun and Go in its benchmark, for about 10 dollars
An agent built a TypeScript AOT compiler prototype, got a web API running on SQLite, and benchmarked it on a VPS ahead of Node, Bun and Go for about 10 dollars.
$10
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI wrote the scripts that moved my password items into Notes
Some of his items would not work in Apple Passwords, so he had the AI write scripts, using the 1Password CLI and AppleScript, that imported those items into Notes for him. Because the scripts were deterministic, he does not think his sensitive data was shared.
He built a real photo book company with AI and wrote no code himself
A UK teacher set out to answer his students’ question about whether coding still matters by building a large system using only AI. Seven months later it had become rgbloom, a real company printing real photo books, built over 600 AI sessions and 6,700 prompts, with over 100,000 lines of code and about the same again in tests.
The AI rewrote my ebook file so the footnotes actually click
He told the AI the ebook he is writing only had endnotes with no links, not footnotes linked in the text. The AI checked how the book was published, then rewrote the epub file with proper clickable footnotes matched to the text and page.
The AI found the school law. My daughter starts on Monday.
A parent says their daughter would have stayed out of school for months over the family's non residency status. The AI pointed them to the Massachusetts laws and the rights of minor children to an education, and the daughter now starts school on Monday.
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