Asana's Piper Agent Quadruples Sales Conversation Volume
Asana says Piper, its Agentforce agent, drives four times the sales conversation volume and took about 45 days to deploy, per Salesforce's release.
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The AI ported his old PHP site to Rust, and caching made the new one keep up
Had the AI transpile his old frameworkless PHP site to Rust and ran it behind the same nginx config; Rust was slower until the AI added micro-caching, reaching comparable rps and latency.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI fixed our Pinewood Derby timers 30 minutes before the races
The AI patched the system files that link a USB to serial cable to the Pinewood Derby track for his Cub Scout group. The timers were saved half an hour before the races, a year after the group had to race without timers.
Tracked a 20,000-point Southwest promo, cross-referenced Gmail receipts for corporate IDs, and
The reviewer is signed up for a Southwest promotion: 20,000 points for eight one-way trips by October. He asked the AI to check Rapid Rewards activity, find flights in the travel period, and cross-reference Gmail receipts to verify they had the corporate ID required for the promotion.
Named his AI 'Doug' and had it research products, pick a
A tattooed man in an industrial loft apartment demonstrates his AI 'Doug' handling household tasks: researching products, selecting a herringbone wool throw blanket from Simons, placing the order with his connected credit card, tracking shipping through connected Gmail, and agreeing to send daily status updates. He notes Doug only accesses explicitly connected apps (Gmail, Stripe, Instagram, Facebook, shared files).
I built a game solo with AI. It launches on the Epic Games Store.
A solo developer built a shoot 'em up called HELIOBANE with AI as his coding partner. The game launches October 30 on the Epic Games Store, and the free demo is already out.
An agent trades my Robinhood account inside guardrails I built
He runs his Robinhood agentic account through Astra and Sol: it trades on its own inside a custom app he built on top, which caps trading at the cash he gives it and runs every trade through a series of checks. He gets a note each day on what is going on with the account.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
He rebuilt his EV charging sizing tool for the web in minutes
For 4 years his team has built simulation tools to size EV charging installations, using tools like Simulink and Jaamsim. Yesterday he built it in web format in minutes using AI.
My agent builds my monthly finance statement from my accounts in 15 minutes
For about 25 years he finished a monthly financial statement in Excel by hand, and it took hours. He connected the AI read only to all his accounts through Plaid. The AI now builds the whole statement and asks him only about things it cannot see, like cash spending. The job takes 15 minutes instead of hours. He is having the AI build him a custom money dashboard next.
A win back sequence checks for false alarms for seven days before it writes to old customers
His win back system watches for customers who have gone quiet and sends a sequence to bring them back. Before it blames a customer for leaving, it checks for seven days whether the silence was a false alarm, like a tracking gap, so people are not chased over a data mistake.
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