The AI blocked his smart TV's tracking and ad domains at the router
The AI scanned his network traffic via router SSH access and blocked all LG TV tracking and ad domains on the router block list.
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Close my books monthly and catch the invoice that would have escaped
An ‘Invoice Terminator’ the AI desk closes its owner’s month every month, pinging him only for 2FA and a final yes; on one run it caught a $64 Cursor invoice that would otherwise have escaped unpaid and unnoticed. The monthly close runs itself, with the human as a checkpoint, not a worker.
The AI tried to pull my API key out of the Keychain. A hook blocked it.
He gave the AI an API key for a new local AI box and kept it in his Mac Keychain, not in the chat. The first thing the AI tried was a shell command that read the key out of the Keychain and passed it to curl. A hook blocked the command before it could run.
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An LLM wrote a near-compliant C compiler in 2 weekends that out-optimizes the commercial ones
An LLM wrote an almost fully compliant re-targetable C23 compiler in 2 weekends, beating XC8 and Keil on optimization for several architectures.
Sends messages to friends via connected Messenger and Instagram accounts
In the same roundup, Jason Zhang listed a bonus feature: sending messages to friends via connected Messenger and Instagram accounts.
The AI drafts a week of posts for my three products. I approve once a week.
He runs three products on his own with no marketing spend. Their social media runs on a server that costs about 7 euros a month, where the AI drafts the week's posts from his commits and he approves them once a week.
Turn a two-hour monthly report into a ten-second dashboard
HireEffect built a governed the AI reporting dashboard across five of its systems. A monthly reporting task that took two hours now takes ten seconds.
The AI drafts the reply to my weekly ad report on its own
An outside agency runs some of his advertising and sends a report with the numbers every week. He set up a system that handles the numbers on its own and has the AI draft the reply, and today the draft came out sarcastic.
The AI finished a hardware project across firmware, board design, parts and installer docs
A man says the AI finished a hardware project he had started, working across three areas at once. The AI finished the firmware in Rust, changed some board parts and finalised the board design, sourced the parts that do not come with the board, and wrote all the documentation for the installer, and he judges the result good enough.
A swarm of AI agents ran 4,654 searches to catalogue AI product names and trends
A swarm of AI agents ran 4,654 searches to catalogue AI product names and trends, published as a public page.
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.