Read my 17 years of Facebook posts and write a profile of my life
Creator Wendell Yu says the AI read his 17 years of Facebook posts and wrote a profile report of his life from them. The segment is the first of five first-hand cases in the video.
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She replaced her whole agent stack with nine AI bots doing real work
Claire Vo ran AI for several weeks and shut down every the AI she had. Her nine bots include Chief, which sweeps six inboxes and several Slack workspaces, a family bot that prints a kitchen table newspaper for her kids each morning, a helpdesk bot getting five star reviews, and a bot that audits subscriptions and negotiates insurance.
The AI’s watch app code was broken beyond steering, so a cheaper model rebuilt it and it works
FAILURE then rescue: The AI’s code for his Garmin watch app compiled but was totally broken even with heavy steering; GLM 5.3 Flash then made it work.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
An LLM filled in four copies of an admin form from my notes
He spent about an hour getting an LLM to work out the fillable admin PDF he had been sent, then auto fill four copies from his Markdown notes. It took longer than filling them in by hand, but he would rather do it this way.
The AI built a Beets plugin so my playlists now make themselves
He wanted playlists made from the notes in his music file tags, like folk rock and cool, and his old bash script was not enough. The AI gave up and sent him to forums, then the AI wrote a Beets plugin and a config that now creates and updates his playlists on its own from those tags.
Negotiated a used Hakko FX-888D soldering station down by $50 and messaged
Stanford EE student (310K followers, 'sage') documented upgrading her electronics lab by using AI (nicknamed 'Chef') to compare Facebook Marketplace listings under $200, identify a Hakko FX-888D in Los Angeles, message the seller directly, and negotiate the price down by $50. She picked up the boxed unit, unboxed it at her workbench, and thanked the AI on camera.
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The AI’s fixes for a CAD tool's geometry bugs were accepted into the next release
The AI commits fixed SolveSpace NURBS boolean issues; most fixes were accepted after expert review and included toward the 3.3 release.
The AI scans local used bookshops against his reading list while he builds a family book collection
The AI hooked to his Goodreads regularly scans local used bookstore inventory while he built a physical book collection for his family.
After every client call I drop the transcript in. My agent files the decisions for me.
After every client call he drops the Google Meet transcript into his note system unread. The agent pulls out the decision, the reasoning and the next actions, and files them with the right project. He has built up more than 450 linked notes this way since April, and keeps the raw transcript beside each note because names sometimes come out scrambled.
Agent 'Aaron P' planned a date and locked it into the calendar
In a skit-style demo, her AI Aaron P offered three date options (a wine bar, a BeltLine stroll plus Ponce City Market, a brewery with games); she picked the BeltLine plan and it was locked to her calendar for Sat Sep 26, 4:00-7:00 PM with parking tips and a reminder offered.
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.