Built a portfolio-aware feed from interests and holdings inferred from email
Mostly Borrowed Ideas had the AI infer his interests and holdings from email and use them to fill his AI feed. The agent built a portfolio-aware feed from Gmail.
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My AI Dot proofed my post and pinned it in Obsidian while I flew
Stuck on a small plane with no Wi-Fi, he wrote a post for Friday on his phone. Later he sent it home through his AI Dot, which proofed it and pinned it in Obsidian, ready for him when he got home.
Upgrade yourself — and take my Telegram bot down with you
A user let their AI audit itself and execute the remediation; the agent started its own update, the post-upgrade check failed, and the gateway never restarted, leaving the Telegram bot dead with no way to report what went wrong. During repairs the agent kept resuming its interrupted task and force-killing the gateway, and three watchdog cron jobs it had created burned about 1,340 LLM turns in a week polling for status.
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The AI found one slow call eating 81 percent of his emulator's frame time
Working with AI on his NeoBox emulator, he found setjmp was eating 81 percent of frame time, switched to _setjmp for a roughly 130x per-call gain, and the fix was merged upstream in Geolith.
An agent reads his email and PDF attachments and puts his kids' school dates on his calendar
His agent reads his email, including PDF attachments, finds the dates and appointments inside, and adds them to his calendar with a check for duplicates. With two kids at different schools sending home a stream of letters, he calls it a big time saver.
Run my salon SaaS with an AI advisor that vetoes features
A solo non-engineer founder building a salon SaaS commented that the AI handles his coding while an AI chat acts as strategic advisor; that week they shipped 7 PRs and found 12 production bugs in manual testing. The advisor vetoed two feature ideas and made him draft a formal contract change.
Fill three dead hours in Manhattan with a route matched to my mood
Stuck in Manhattan with three hours to fill after a drop-off, Eric planned the afternoon with Jarvis by voice while driving. He gave it a mood instead of a destination — a break from technology, maybe by looking at art about technology — and it weighed a museum, galleries and an observation deck, then came back with a walking route through Chelsea galleries. At the end of the call he told it to put the route in his calendar, and it did.
The AI searched Amazon and found the Pokemon 30th anniversary items I wanted
The poster used AI to search through Amazon listings for the 30th anniversary Pokemon items they wanted. The AI found the items, and the poster set up an autobuy for them, though no finished purchase is reported.
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Call the hospital about my X-ray coverage and get past its AI to a human
The AI phoned the hospital to confirm insurance coverage for the user's X-ray and escalated past the hospital's own automated system to reach a human who could answer.
His AI checks WordPress plugins daily and found malware
He set up an AI for his WP Beacon project to check WordPress plugins every day. After two weeks of daily checks it pinged him about malware in the InstaWP Connect plugin, and wordpress.org closed the listing that afternoon and restored it the next morning.
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