Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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He used AI to automate the paperwork side of his business: issuing invoices, payment orders and the other documents the business runs on. The work used to take a whole day. Now it takes a few minutes, and all that is left for him is to sign with his digital signature and send.
He pointed the AI at an Internet Archive copy of an old adventure game and got a web version of Neuromancer, then a 3D version.
A man created a virtual credit card in Robinhood for his AI. He had the agent buy his tickets to a jazz show that night.
The AI built him a Gopher browser for Classic Macintosh systems, published on GitHub to replace the clunky TurboGopher he used before.
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.
He runs Svippit, a small shop platform for creators. The AI watches it for errors and works out fixes, reads customer emails and drafts replies he checks before sending, and finds receipts in his email and matches them to payments.
He mined his old Twitter archive with help from the AI. His old threads of more than three tweets and his collections of links are now on his own site as historic blog posts.
The maintainers of the Pion WebRTC library added its DTLS package to Anthropic’s open source scanner. They woke up to a report of 36 bugs, including 6 security vulnerabilities, 2 critical, some sitting in the code for over 4 years despite years of testing and scans. Fixes went in the same project.
While Julius was at the gym, his AI negotiated his Verizon bill from $296.71 to $246.77 a month. The $49.94 monthly cut totals $299.64 over the 6-month term.
He asked the AI to add some dates to his Outlook calendar. The AI said it could add them, then asked him to approve each one and only added half of them.
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.