Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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She reports that after involving the AI in a dispute over a broken, irreplaceable piece of furniture, the company's refund rose from an initial $125 offer to $500 received.
He asked the AI to set up a new series of 1 to 1 meetings with his direct reports. The AI created sixteen calendar invites, all to the same team member.
Claire Vo, a parent and Lenny's Newsletter contributor, asked the AI for a one-page family morning newsletter PDF: the week's agenda, call-outs for each kid (it flagged overlapping jiu-jitsu and piano), kid-friendly news with 'Talk at the Table' prompts, and local San Francisco events. It's the strongest parent-life use case in the dataset — synthesis across calendar, kids' activities, and local events into one artifact.
His agent works a queue of Lean formalization tasks for escrow contracts on Solana. One verified submission earned 0.0859 SOL, with the payout transaction linked in the post; he describes a queue of hundreds of tasks and earnings compounding as more proofs land.
He gets 215 GitHub notifications a day, so he built a bot to triage them.
Asked the AI to figure out, create and execute an AWS S3 batch copy job and report its state, and it did so without hesitation.
Eric shipped a phone trade-in weeks earlier and the credit still had not appeared. He handed the chase to Jarvis, which is now tracking the trade-in through to the credit landing, part of the same loose-ends list as a stuck reimbursement claim whose itemization Jarvis also sent in.
The AI was fed government forms, UI design and legal requirements and produced the app in 1 hour; the team completed conversion of 150+ forms in 2 weeks with one person versus a year before.
Job applications from a Google Form land in his spreadsheet on their own and each one is emailed to him to review. If he replies yes, the applicant gets his scheduling link; once they book they get joining instructions and a reminder an hour before. He runs the business next to a full time job and two kids in diapers, so every message it sends for him counts.
The AI built a fast personal image browser for his many old photo folders, which he uses and likes.
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