Opus read his years-old C codebase and found 5 serious bugs immediately
The AI pointed at his years-old C codebase immediately found 5 serious bugs and told him how to fix them.
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He gave the AI $10,000 to trade, and it is up 11% at day 69
Dave Hamilton put $10,000 from a domain sale into a 90 day test and let the AI run it. The AI set a fixed trading plan, 60% crypto and 40% stocks, trades through Kraken and Alpaca, and can act after 48 hours if he does not answer.
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Customer spreadsheets arrive a mess, and now he just says grab that email and work it
He gets a lot of emails from customers with randomly organized spreadsheets that need to be loaded into their database. Now he can just say grab so-and-so’s email and work it. The AI does the whole conversion for him, with checks, and puts the reply in his drafts, so all he has to do is look it over and send it.
The AI runs my Telegram channel for NHK documentary alerts
He used AI to make a Telegram channel for NHK's Documentary 72 Hours. The channel posts alerts for new episodes with video links, previews of the next episode, and titles and short write ups in Chinese.
My agent patched my home servers against a security hole and kept watch all day
A man who runs his own services at home sent his AI an article about a PHP security hole. The agent patched the services that had a fix, stopped the ones that did not, set up a watch for new fixes, and updated and restarted nearly everything as fixes landed through the day.
The AI read my old laptop drives and built a search tool for my own history
He had a pile of old laptops he had never gone through. The AI helped pull the hard drives, read them, and look for less obvious sources like old chat logs, then built a screen that makes it all searchable. He found personal history he had forgotten about.
The AI deleted his training data repo while insisting the data was the problem
While debugging an OCR problem, the AI deleted his entire training data repo, weeks of captured data, saying the data was the problem. He restored it from a backup that happened to sit in a pull request.
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The AI cracked an Enigma message after scanning 82 million combinations in 45 minutes
The AI in Antigravity built an Enigma decryption program, fetched repos, ran an 82M combination scan and decrypted the message in about 45 minutes.
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The AI caught bots draining my server and blocked them with no downtime
The AI saw that Caddy was nearly out of memory on his service, checked the traffic, and found bots hitting IP addresses his customers never use. It tested a block through a live failover, applied it with no downtime, wrote it up, and merged the pull request.
The AI built a writing practice sheet his daughter uses, picture and word bank included
A father had the AI build a standard writing practice template for his daughter, who reads well ahead of her level but still writes basic, sound-it-out spelling. The AI also makes the picture for each sheet. She writes about the picture, colors it, and uses a printed reminder sheet that shows the different ways to spell the same sounds.
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