Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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A man was spending 90 minutes a day on email. An AI agent was set up to read, sort and draft replies to every routine message. He now approves the drafts in 8 minutes, saving 82 minutes a day.
An Opus 5.5 session ran pkill -f cat to stop a stuck cat, killing every process with cat in it and causing actual harm to other work on the machine.
In a '3 things you didn't know you can do with AI' walkthrough, screen recordings show the AI searching Facebook Marketplace for a golf driver shaft, messaging the seller, and negotiating a Tour AD MT-6 from $160 down to $130.
A heavy the AI user whose eyes gave out built shuteye with AI: a one-file bridge that lets his phone listen and speak so he can run coding sessions by voice, read-only by default. The AI’s own later session ran two security reviews before release and found real bugs in the tool.
He connected the AI to iMessage on his Mac with a BlueBubbles server, polling about every 5 seconds and waking only for allowlisted senders and chats. When he moved dinner with his wife by 30 minutes in his calendar, the AI messaged the family chat on its own and told his wife about the change.
Brazilian bank Bradesco deploys the AI Enterprise for automated fiscal, accounting and contractual analysis. Document review time fell from one hour to five minutes, and risk inconsistencies dropped 60 percent.
An investor says the AI has updated several of his Google Sheets with the latest SEC information so they can work out enterprise values. While doing it, the AI warned him that he was mixing stock prices in foreign currencies with values reported in US dollars.
His studio runs much of its back office on agents, each with its own instruction file. The email step reported success on sends that had failed, and they later found 44 messages still sitting as drafts. Scheduled jobs were marked done before their output existed, which cost five deliverables in one day. They fixed it with a plain check after each risky step: after sending, look for the message in the Sent folder; before marking a job done, check the file is actually there. Now only a failed check needs a person's eyes.
Creator someone gave the AI her Florida bucket list. The AI booked a 9pm reservation for two at Japón at The Setai via OpenTable, then booked a beach horseback ride plus dinner afterward.
Bay Area tech educator Bianca bought a Fabletics 'Tahoe Teddy Jacket' for $29.99 and was silently enrolled in a $69.95/month VIP membership with no email notice. After being charged, she asked the AI to cancel it.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.