A company's AI found the company's wasted agent spend and saved $1M a year
Databricks used AI to eliminate wasted AI agent spend, saving $1M per year.
$1,000,000a year
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The AI sorted my bookmarks and threw most of them away
He exported his browser bookmarks to an HTML file and asked the AI to sort and categorize them. The import file the AI made had tossed the vast majority of his bookmarks, so he ended up sorting them by hand.
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Kept a standing Facebook Marketplace and Buy Nothing watch for nice-to-haves (wooden
Konik gave the AI a list of low-urgency wants she didn't want to overpay for. Over time it built a table of what normal prices in her area look like and flagged good deals, netting her a $25 armchair and ottoman that fit her reading nook.
$25
The AI drafts his app's blog daily and only pings him when a draft needs him
The AI writes daily blog post drafts for his app and checks draft approval status every 2 hours, pinging only when something changes.
Audited a hotel folio and got $216 in undisclosed fees refunded: $90
'TRICK #16' from an AI fan-tips account: a two-night hotel stay was quoted at $378 but billed $594. Breaking down 'THE FOLIO' revealed $90x2 resort fees (never used, undisclosed at booking), $76x2 parking (never used), and $100x2 minibar (never used).
$216
His app ships in 16 languages, and the AI’s screenshot tool gave him his weekends back
Every release of his app used to cost him a weekend taking store screenshots in 16 languages, cropping them and pasting them into store cards. He and the AI built a small tool that drives headless Chrome through the real app, grabs the screens in each language and composes the finished cards with captions and backgrounds. A release is now one command.
The AI made his first five eBay listings and all five sold
The AI created his first five eBay listings for him and helped track the shipments and payments afterwards. All five items sold.
The AI’s one-minute launcher opens his streaming studio and checks every source
The AI made a new OBS launcher in about a minute that opens OBS and refreshes and checks all of his sources.
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Handled doctor's-office admin in ~5 minutes: emailed the office, left a voicemail,
X poster someone had the AI do doctor's-office admin in about 5 minutes: it emailed the doctor's office, left a voicemail, filled out new-patient paperwork, and created a calendar entry.
The AI built my film showcase schedule and made the calendar events
He made the schedule for a film showcase through AI. It created the events with the exact running time of each film, the address, and the travel time, and he had it add a reminder to pick up the tickets.
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