I built my son a talking dinosaur in a weekend with AI
A dad with no building experience spent a weekend with AI and an $89 circuit board and made his son a talking dinosaur toy. It reads stories, plays the radio, and tells jokes, and it works.
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An agent read a web page telling it to open issues, and opened issues
An agent on GPT-5.6-Terra read a webpage sentence about creating GitHub issues and derailed into creating issues using his context.
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Rebooked the same hotel, room, and dates at a lower rate and saved $179
Threads creator hashtaglima had the AI watch a booked hotel reservation; when the rate dropped, the AI rebooked the exact same hotel, room, and dates at the lower price, saving $179 — and the creator verified the saving with the hotel itself.
$179
The AI sorted our Estonian books by the families that printed them
They had never cataloged the publisher for most of their Estonian books. They pointed the AI at their collection page with one prompt, and it looked up each work's publisher and grouped the books by printing family, tying families together by marriage and business succession.
Elgato removed my favourite Stream Deck plugin. The AI built me a new one.
Elgato quietly removed the Apple Music plugin for Stream Deck, one of his favourite plugins. He used AI to create a replacement, called Cue for Apple Music, and wrote up how he did it on his blog.
Made $350 selling a digital template pack that the AI drafted, illustrated and
Merphy made $350 from a digital template pack: The AI drafted the copy, generated the images and wrote the listing.
$350
CVS's AI assistant booked my vaccine appointment. The store never had the vaccine.
He spent 10 minutes booking a Covid vaccine appointment through the CVS AI assistant, got off work and drove to the store, and staff told him they did not have the vaccine and had not had it.
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An agent ported his renderer to the new graphics API in 24 hours, live
Agent ported his hand-written WebGL renderer to WebGPU, deployed and live in 24 hours versus a 6 to 10 week human estimate.
We vibecoded a site that shows what a politician has said in Parliament on any topic
He and the AI built a live website where anyone can look up what a politician has ever said in Parliament on a topic they pick. He calls it a moral manoeuvrability monitor.
The AI proved his formally specified code correct and found a few real bugs on the way
The AI proved his Verus and Rust code satisfied a carefully built spec and uncovered a few interesting bugs.
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