A local agent runs his home router, and he now configures it in plain English
Gave a local agent SSH access to his OpenWrt One router to optimize, secure and interpret his home network; now configures it in English.
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Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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The AI made the slides that fill the talking-only stretches of his video
Had the AI use Marp to create slides that were inserted into his video at the points where he was only talking; it worked well.
Cross-app meeting workflow booked the event in the wrong time zone
In a two-week test, the AI read a client email, extracted the meeting time, created a calendar event and sent a confirmation — but the event landed in the wrong time zone (the client email stated none, so the AI defaulted to local time), caught only 40 minutes before the meeting.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Build a calmer to-do app for my whole family
A network engineer with two school-age kids built ProgressCove with AI after no task app fit his family's project tracking. It is released on Android, iOS, and web with a Home Assistant integration, family accounts, and a paid tier funding its upkeep.
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.
An overnight fuzzing run found 26 kernel crashes, with fixes, some already upstream
Kimi told overnight to fuzz Linux kernel filesystem code produced 26 crashes with reproducers and fixes; some have already landed upstream.
The AI minds his graphics drivers after every update and caught a bad kernel before reboot
The AI fixes his Flatpak and Nvidia driver sync after updates, and caught a crashed update that left a wrong kernel for his GPU drivers before he rebooted.
The AI cut $140 from my AT&T bill
He says the AI helped him cut $140 from his AT&T bill. He adds that everyone he knows who uses AI has similar stories.
$140
A background campaign is matching a classic game's code function by function, 17,352 done
The AI set up and runs a background matching-decompilation campaign for Age of Mythology; 17,352 of 21,965 functions matched so far.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
A Brazilian lawyer drafts case documents straight from the case folder
He points an AI project at a folder of case files. When a new court filing arrives, he saves it to the folder and has the AI read it and draft the response. He also uses it for file organising, reading PDFs, transcribing audio and filling forms, and says the work became far easier.
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