The AI rebuilt a ZX81 memory dump game in Go and got every step right
Asked the AI to build a ZX81 memory dump game in Go; it nailed it, converting the binary back to BASIC and then to Go.
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Scanned 5 years of flight history for delayed/cancelled flights to claim compensation
A testimonial graphic quotes someone: 'my first money with someone — connected my email, asked to find all flights I had in last 5 years, find the ones that were delayed or cancelled.' The agent mined years of inbox history for compensation claims.
His governed agent system checks production logs daily, files bug reports, and deploys twice a day
A developer runs his own repos and production server under a written constitution file in every repo. Automated runs check production logs daily and file bug reports. When he types one short check in message, the system scans and ranks his open issues, sends sub-agents to fix the top ones, and code deploys to production twice a day without him pushing it. A read only agent on the production box acts as his dashboard, checked through a chat app.
Cancel my Fabletics VIP membership and get the charge refunded
Bianca (someone) says the AI logged into her Fabletics account, cancelled the $69.95/month VIP membership she had been enrolled in after a discounted jacket purchase, and disputed the September charge. Twenty-one minutes later she had a full $69.95 refund to her original payment method, not store credit.
$69.95
The AI built a Beets plugin so my playlists now make themselves
He wanted playlists made from the notes in his music file tags, like folk rock and cool, and his old bash script was not enough. The AI gave up and sent him to forums, then the AI wrote a Beets plugin and a config that now creates and updates his playlists on its own from those tags.
The AI made the slides that fill the talking-only stretches of his video
Had the AI use Marp to create slides that were inserted into his video at the points where he was only talking; it worked well.
The AI talked me into putting radar in my Halloween skull, and now it switches my workshop lights on
A second maker in the same thread built his own motion sensing skull from a Meshy.ai model. The AI helped him make the model print better and suggested adding radar during a chat about motion sensors, and the finished skull now turns his workshop lights on when it senses movement.
Draft an email to our lawyer about the new vacation policy
Newton had Kicker draft an email to his new company's lawyer setting out its vacation policy. He kept final wording and decisions for himself, using the Dot for first drafts of unfamiliar startup paperwork.
Co-parenting dad: 'Smarty' found the cheapest Charmin deal ($4.99 Walgreens), merged kids'
J.R. Rivera, a father and retired educator, used his agent 'Smarty' for four parenting pain points: finding the best local Charmin deal ($4.99 at Walgreens), booking FLL-TYS flights for his son's June 2027 Pigeon Forge baseball tournament ($1,008-$1,103), organizing the kids' overlapping GameChanger sports calendars into his main calendar, and buying a 30-inch Rawlings Icon Fest Light Blue USSSA bat ($399.99).
$4.99
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.
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