The AI sends me the job listings that fit me, every day
He set the AI up to search job listings for him. Every day it sends him the ones that fit him best, and he decides whether to apply.
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Found gluten-free beer nearby: two good picks but one spot closed for years
A reviewer asked the AI to find gluten-free beer nearby and provide the restaurant's phone number. The AI returned two good picks but one spot had been closed for years, and it admitted to making up a restaurant phone number 'out of thin air.' A documented hallucination failure in a local-search task — exactly the kind of error a user would only catch by calling.
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AI wrote the script that let him type into his terminal from his phone
He wanted to type into a remote tmux session from his phone. The AI wrote a script that finds the pane, watches for his messages, and injects the text as keystrokes, and it works.
Kept a standing Facebook Marketplace and Buy Nothing watch for nice-to-haves (wooden
Konik gave the AI a list of low-urgency wants she didn't want to overpay for. Over time it built a table of what normal prices in her area look like and flagged good deals, netting her a $25 armchair and ottoman that fit her reading nook.
$25
The school district buried its survey in a 3,000 page PDF, so I made it searchable
His local school division released the raw answers to a touchy redistricting survey as one PDF of more than 3,000 pages, which nobody could realistically read. He used AI to write scripts that pulled the answers out and built a public web page where people can search the responses and filter them by keyword and by school.
The AI searched five years of email and listed my forgotten accounts
A tech writer had the AI search five years of his email for signup and password reset messages. The AI built a spreadsheet of the accounts it found, with breach notes and a deletion link for each service, and tagged at least 50 accounts.
A sandboxed agent checks daily whether the product spec and the code still agree
Sandboxed agent checks spec and code drift daily, triages findings, and surfaces issues; it revealed product miscommunications on the team.
Cancel my Fabletics VIP membership and get the charge refunded
Bianca (someone) says the AI logged into her Fabletics account, cancelled the $69.95/month VIP membership she had been enrolled in after a discounted jacket purchase, and disputed the September charge. Twenty-one minutes later she had a full $69.95 refund to her original payment method, not store credit.
$69.95
My agent reads every the AI release and DMs me what matters
He set up an AI that wakes up when a new the AI release lands. It reads the changelog, picks out only the parts he cares about, and sends him a DM when there is something of interest.
A reviewer agent has checked 7,600 of his commits in four months and rejected half at least once
A reviewer agent has gated his commits for four months of daily use, about 3,877 commits and 7,600 reviews, rejecting about half at least once and catching real bugs before commit (his own measured use, RemainderBot class).
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