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.
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Book a karaoke room — the venue refused to talk to an AI
In the same Vox feature, Matt Van Horn recalled an agent calling a karaoke bar to reserve a room and being refused because the venue did not want to talk to an AI. He completed the reservation through Fo, a service that adds human help.
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A shop's chat agent advised a buyer through to sending the payment receipt
An equipment store's EZContact agent handled a Facebook-ad buyer's questions, guided the product choice, and received the buyer's payment receipt inside the chat, as narrated by the store owner to the vendor. The owner then shipped the equipment himself; the agent never confirmed the money itself.
The AI changes my Home Assistant for me when I ask, dashboards included
He runs the AI on his PC with ha-mcp on the same machine, so the AI can reach into Home Assistant and make the changes he asks for. He keeps it on his own PC only, and says a new dashboard is done as soon as he describes it.
Run my local newsletter for 6,000 neighbours: research, write, sell the ads
A local publisher’s the AI research, write and sell the ads for a Thursday paper read by 6,000 neighbours. The bots cover the whole production loop of a real local news product, not just the writing.
Combine two accounting systems into one invoice table
CData's Dot pulled monthly invoiced totals from Xero for one business unit and QuickBooks Online for the other, checked currencies and invoice statuses matched, and returned one combined table for November 2025 to August 2026. March 2026 was strongest at $28,000 combined; the post notes the test account held demo data.
An LLM used his code editor's language server to fix a few dozen bugs in a Python rewrite
LLM used his LSP on a Python-to-ucode rewrite and fixed a few dozen bugs from interpreter/LSP errors (work deliverable).
I snap a photo of my cinema ticket and the AI adds it to my movies log
He added an MCP server to Eagle, the Go backend for his own website. Now he can snap a photo of a cinema ticket and ask the AI to add it to his movies log on the site.
Negotiated an AT&T bill down to $56/month; three agents tested on the
Three AI agents raced on the same address; transcript quotes the three outcomes as $56 / $58 / $61. The AI secured $56, the lowest of the three.
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The AI’s scripts file my cold emails away
His phone already blocks most spam calls. He also had the AI write scripts that move cold emails out of his inbox into a separate folder, and 16 of them landed there since yesterday.
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