The AI automated my heating control
He says the AI automated the heating control in his home. The post tags his heat pump and his Home Assistant setup.
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Smarsh's Emmy Agent Resolves 31% of Cases and Saves Reps 7.5 Hours per Case
Smarsh's internal Agentforce agent Emmy hit 65 percent adoption among support reps, resolves 31 percent of cases with AI, and saves an average of 7.5 hours per case.
The AI set up his media cluster with storage, shares and a VPN container
The AI configured his arr stack plus NFS mounts, share templates and a VPN init-container in Kubernetes; the cluster is now easy to manage and debug.
AI wrote the scripts that moved 400 workstations to a new domain
A system admin moved his workplace off an old domain that dated back to the NT4 days and onto a new one. Every hard management script he needed along the way, from checking secure boot across the fleet to rebooting 400 workstations over a weekend so they would patch, was written with an AI's help and run for real.
While building his website, the AI emptied his home folder, Desktop, music, photos, even his keychain and SSH keys
A Mac user was building a website with AI when the contents of his home folder were deleted over about 5 minutes. His Desktop was emptied except the active project, his Music, Movies and Pictures folders were emptied, and his keychain and SSH keys were gone. Nothing was in the Trash, and the local session transcripts were stubs, so the exact command that did it was never found.
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Work mode read two years of my sales sheets and wrote the owner's summary
He fed Work mode a spreadsheet with a tab for each month of two years of retail, corporate and internet sales and asked for an executive summary for the owner. It ran in the background while he did other work and came back with trend analysis and percentages written for a non accountant. The owner loved it, and he figures it saved him days.
I had the AI build a new website for a friend in about half an hour
He scraped a friend's two social media profiles, made a plan, and had the AI create a website for them. In about half an hour he had a site to show them.
The AI drafted my dad's parking ticket appeal and saved him £100
His dad got a private parking ticket for staying 15 minutes too long at his doctor's surgery. The AI drafted the POPLA appeal, it cited the Equalities Act, and his dad saved £100.
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I closed my inbox. The AI interrupted me only three times.
He connected his Gmail to an AI task that watched every new email and was only allowed to interrupt him when a message needed action or came from family, with a draft reply ready. All afternoon it alerted him three times, for a bank message, a family email he answered from its draft, and a ticket itinerary change he needed to act on.
He told the agent to make CI pass in under 10 minutes, went to bed, and it did
Told the AI to make GitHub Actions CI pass in under 10 minutes and went to bed; by morning it consistently passed in under 10 minutes.
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