Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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He forgot to charge the batteries for his road bike's electronic shifting before a ride last week. After a weekend of back and forth with AI, he now has a dashboard that can alert him when things need to be charged.
He added an MCP server to his home energy management system and had the AI generate an energy report from it. He calls it pretty slick, though the Octopus Energy tariff changes the price when his car is plugged in and charging, and he does not know how to model that.
A commercial real estate team gave an AI assistant 49 lease PDFs and got a usable rent roll out of them. The case opens a training session on handing real estate busywork to connected AI tools.
Austin Evans, a verified tech creator (510K followers), showed his AI 'Lotus' tracking when tickets go live for events such as the United States Grand Prix in Austin, alongside a Collectibles Tracker database and morning tech-news briefs. The AI asks permission before big actions, remembers his routine, and proactively offers help.
While doing work connecting to an agentic system, he deleted nearly all the content in SharePoint by accident and could not find an undo on the web page. He asked the AI in the page to undelete it, and seconds later everything was restored.
Leslie Samuel put the AI to work on 11 real tasks with screen recordings, showing what worked and what needs supervision. One was generating his own personal AI podcast.
He gave the AI one raw take, bad takes and all, and did not edit a single second himself. The AI did the color grade, the titles, and captions on every word.
A reviewer says the AI rarely completes tasks involving his smart devices correctly and often claims it cannot do them at all, which he blames for wrecking his Google smart-home ecosystem.
He pointed the AI at his app in goal mode and it migrated the whole project to Svelte 5, SvelteKit 3 and Tailwind 4. The run took 15 days, 229 commits and 3,523 file changes. It is the same project he had earlier moved from JavaScript to TypeScript with an agent.
A creator rebuilt the expense spreadsheet he once made by hand in 2021. One AI agent loads his bank movements into a Google sheet without duplicates and builds a summary with charts, and a second agent checks the first one's numbers.
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.