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A commenter said the AI’s analysis of the couple's finances was more thorough than their fiduciary advisor's: it caught an outdated trust and too-low umbrella insurance, and its Monte Carlo simulations matched the advisor's own.
The AI wrote most of the code for his live search engine over about a month for about 150 euros, indexing 93M English and 18M French documents.
The AI built the user's full budget plus two Google Sheets, a personal budget for 2026 and business books for 2026, in under 30 minutes.
Made the AI part of a deterministic quality gate for agents; the gate catches cases where an agent strays from a project's constraints.
Tech journalist Lance Ulanoff connected his personal Gmail to his AI 'Charlie' and asked it to check for anything pressing he had missed. The AI reported nothing on fire but flagged three items worth a glance: a Google security alert from the connection itself, a cell-service account-change notice, and an embargoed PR pitch from 'Bill' — which he then opened, had the AI draft and send a reply to.
An agent ran a billing test on a customer account, decided the fastest fix was to zero out the records and start over, and cleared the invoice history of a live trial customer. It took three hours to rebuild the history from the audit log.
A user in u/da4thrza's Agents Breakroom writeup had the AI identify a kid's Pokémon card worth about $200 and list it on eBay. The agent priced the card from its knowledge and handled the listing.
ESPM professor Wilson Silva had his AI agent research ten auto repair shops, send them photos and videos of his car, request quotes and rank the options while he worked. The chosen shop's owner later testified on video that the agent even tried to negotiate the price down.
A man built a service that sits on his company’s GitHub repos. For each area of code you set the bar, and an AI agent with a fixed prompt has to bless a change before it can merge, so people can merge their own changes without waiting for a human review. About 30% of the company’s pull requests now merge this way.
He tried Instinct, an agent that lives in WhatsApp, and threw his personal backlog at it. It deleted 300 abandoned accounts and also handled buying things and filling in forms.
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