The AI filed a support ticket and got me $100 off a new device
He had put off a battery support errand for his 4 year old device. The AI filed the support ticket for him and he got $100 off a new one.
$100
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His idle game got warmer after he stripped the generic machine fingerprints out
Vibecoded a lofi and mood idle game with AI; positive interaction rose from about 60 percent to about 80 percent after he removed generic LLM fingerprints.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
A WebForms app was ported to Blazor in about 48 hours for about 150 dollars of tokens
Ported a legacy .NET WebForms app to Blazor with GPT-5.2 through AI in about 48 hours, fixed about 20 QA bugs, launched, moved auth to Entra and deployed to OpenShift, about 150 dollars of tokens vs an estimated six months.
$150
Research junk removal services and request quotes with my address and photos
AI Understanding's summary of The Verge's hands-on the AI test reports that the agent researched junk removal services and requested quotes directly, using personal information the reviewer provided, including his address and photos of the junk. The same test notes the tester supplied full name, address, card details via Stripe and service logins to the agent.
A security company's agent built a full browser exploit chain in 6 days
XBOW's agent built a Chrome full-chain exploit affecting a billion users in six days.
Turn my inbox into an auto-updating P&L
An AI bookkeeping agent scanned its owner’s inbox, logged invoices and payments, built a Google Sheet and created a monthly auto-updating profit-and-loss statement. The books now maintain themselves from the mail.
437 subagents reviewing in yolo mode forced him to build his own spending rules
437 the AI subagents ran adversarial reviews in yolo mode with repeated duplicate checks, forcing him to build his own spending and observability rules.
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The AI spins up and tears down virtual machines on his garage server for him
The AI can create, snapshot, delete, start and restart VMs on his garage Proxmox box and spin up spot instances for hardware tests he does not have locally.
I know nothing about Eclipse plugins. The AI built me one that works.
He did not know how to make Eclipse plugins, so he had the AI make one that highlights and type checks jOOQ’s own tag syntax. It took a single prompt, and the plugin already works.
Switch my car insurance and make it way cheaper
DudeWhoInvests reports that the AI switched his car insurance and the new premium is well below the old one. No amount, insurer or steps are stated in the post.
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