The AI ported about 7 classic Mac games, writing its own disassembly tools first
The AI ported about 7 classic 68k Mac games, writing its own 68k disassembly tools.
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Booked his mom's PODS moving container $576 under the quoted price
Ben Parr had the AI book his mom's PODS moving container. The agent got it booked $576 under the quoted price, a straightforward moving-cost win.
$576
My VRChat night lounge, built with GPT-6 Astra, is live
He built a VRChat world with GPT-6 Astra and published it. The world is a high rise lounge based on Roppongi, with night views, space to chat, and a game to play.
She let the AI order her new business cards; they arrived black-and-white instead of turquoise and oddly cropped, unusable
A Süddeutsche Zeitung journalist's first-person diary of living with AI: she gave it her email, credit-card statements and bank account; it surfaced a tax advisor's email she would have missed and offered to cancel a forgotten trial subscription, but failed at Amazon shopping (blocked) and online doctor booking. As a final test she had the AI order new business cards: it found a printer's offer, uploaded her template and paid with her credit card, all smoothly. Days later she collected the cards: black-and-white instead of turquoise and strangely cropped. Not usable.
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Hunt jobs for my wife: 84 listings, one-word approvals, 7:30am digest
A husband runs an AI job hunt for his wife: the bot works 11 searches across 84 listings and sends a 7:30am digest, and she approves applications with one-word replies. The search runs daily without either of them opening a job board.
The AI got my insurer to pay a claim two law firms said was hopeless. About $40,000.
His insurer would not pay for a damaged well on one of his gas leases, and two insurance law firms told him he had no case. The AI read nearly 230 pages of contracts, letters and legal opinions, found his policy kept older, more generous terms from 2015, rewrote the claim, filed it by email, and he got the money.
$40,000one time
Packaging jobs come back from his agent in about 20 minutes, twenty dependencies deep
Sends Nix packaging jobs to an agent and gets a working package, or 20 dependency packages, in about 20 minutes; the AI also fixed his monitor wake-after-sleep config in minutes.
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The AI ran the initial setup of a Facebook/Instagram ad campaign
Nari Media's test shows the AI making the initial setup of Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns fast and accessible for media buyers, handling the first build inside Meta's ad tools.
An hour with AI moved his home system onto a private network, documented in git
Spent an hour with AI migrating a Home Assistant setup to Tailscale, updating sensors and Pi-hole, and putting it all in one documented git compose file.
I set a daily search for my old car and it found the dealer listing in a week
After selling his car to CarMax he set a daily the AI search for listings matching it, because he wanted to see what a dealer would list it for. It found the listing within a week.
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