The AI went through my 250 newsletters and my blog is live
The AI spent a couple of hours going through about 250 of her past newsletters and repurposing them. Her blog is now live with that material.
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Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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The AI did his tax bookkeeping. Five hours of invoice checks took one.
He had the AI do bookkeeping for his taxes, checking invoices from the past 6 months. A job that used to take him 5 hours took 1 hour, though he still had to check the results himself.
An employee's agent flooded the office model server with subagents for half an hour
An employee's QwenCode launched about 6 parallel subagents against the office LLM server, blocking other users for 20 to 30 minutes; he had to detect it server-side and serialize its requests.
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The AI keeps his books in a double entry ledger and flagged a missing $47 charge
He wired a double entry bookkeeping tool into AI and snaps photos of receipts as they come. When he fed it a batch of bank statements for his rental property, the reconciliation flagged a missing $47 charge for him to check.
The AI auto-dubbed his YouTube videos into English
A dedicated segment of the same session shows the AI auto-dubbing his videos into English, opening his Urdu-language lessons to an English-speaking audience.
The AI moved my whole Twitter archive into my Day One journal
He left Twitter in 2022 and had wanted his archive in the Day One journal app ever since. The AI did the import in an hour, and that time included backing up his databases first in case anything went wrong.
The AI screens new science papers against my own green and red flag lists
She scans new papers as a science journalist. Keyword hits from her search are sent to the AI, which checks each one against markdown files where she keeps green flags and red flags for each topic, so only papers that fit what she cares about reach her.
Negotiated with Comcast and streamlined a mobile plan, saving more than $800
FUNDA reports that the most-viewed post in its 654-case the AI database is a phone-call story: a user had the AI negotiate with Comcast and streamline a mobile plan, saving more than $800 a year. The post drew 230,000 views.
$800
The AI only checked 25 emails when I asked it to scan my whole inbox
He asked the AI to scan his entire work inbox and count emails from accounts he had never sent mail to, so he could weed out newsletters. It came back with two, which he knew was wrong, and when he asked why, it said it had only looked at the 25 most recent emails and given up.
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Turn my program synopsis into a 23-page master curriculum
Four days into a 30-day the AI trial, the writer gave the AI the synopsis of Creative Eye Forward, the community education initiative he is building through Creative Eye Studios to teach young people AI literacy, critical thinking and digital creativity. The AI produced a 23-page master curriculum, giving him substantial material to review and shape around the people he will actually teach.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.