His family picked the warm theme the AI sketched and the AI built into their home app
The AI mocked up theme options and the AI implemented the warm theme in his HomeOS app, which his family chose and uses.
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The AI cleaned up his photo libraries across accounts and converted his old phone images
A homelab owner used AI on his Immich photo setup, which can only remove duplicates inside one user library. The AI found the duplicates across multiple libraries and quarantined them, found his grid based images from his iPhone 4 days, wrote the conversion software, and turned them into animated WebP files.
I sent the AI a video of my golf swing. My scores dropped from the low 100s to the mid 80s.
A man fed a video of his golf swing into AI and worked on what it told him to fix. His average score dropped from the low 100s to the mid 80s, a gain he says he would once have paid thousands of dollars for.
Handled Instagram DMs and comments, produced full page analytics with growth charts,
A Persian-language reel demonstrated the AI managing emails and sending auto-replies, handling Instagram direct messages and comments, generating full page analytics with growth charts, and producing weekly content plans — then creating a custom avatar and a product video for a QCY SP2 Bluetooth speaker. It connected to Gmail and Instagram.
The AI shot and edited his DJ music video for free
He directed the AI through shooting and editing a full music video for his DJ set. He said it cost nothing and he would use AI for video work again.
The AI handled my sales emails and got me a quotation
An unsolicited sales email landed in his inbox, and he let the AI run the reply exchange. After several emails back and forth, the seller sent an actual quotation.
Shortlist workshop venues and audit the seating catch
In an October 1, 2026 test, a Cue agent returned three Manhattan workshop venues in about four minutes with capacity, price, accessibility and cancellation fields plus source links, flagging unconfirmed availability. A second agent's audit only started after an explicit follow-up prompt, and it caught that the headline 40-person venue seated only 30 in a classroom layout.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Booked a dad's-birthday dinner for four at Two Urban Licks via OpenTable
Shana Basnight (someone, 6.9K followers) named her AI 'Marigold' and asked for a dad's-birthday restaurant (steak, Inman Park). Marigold suggested Kevin Rathbun Steak, Two Urban Licks, and Il Premio; when the first was closed on Sundays, she offered a backup and, with permission, booked a table for four at Two Urban Licks via OpenTable.
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The same bot that fights his spam also scrubbed his details off data brokers
The poster of the spam text case also had his bot remove his personal details from data broker listings. He lists both jobs among the things the bot has genuinely handled for him.
Run 11 daily workflows for my independent music business
The AI runs 11 daily workflows that keep an independent music business operating, from admin to promotion tasks on a standing schedule.
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