A local LLM helped him build a safe bare-metal starter system in a week
A local LLM helped him build a sub-1500-line memory-safe baremetal Rust init system with a test suite in about a week, work that would have taken months by hand.
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The AI did his tax bookkeeping. Five hours of invoice checks took one.
He had the AI do bookkeeping for his taxes, checking invoices from the past 6 months. A job that used to take him 5 hours took 1 hour, though he still had to check the results himself.
Planned a post-training dinner, built the grocery list, and walked him through
Miguel Sosa (32K followers), a busy student-athlete, created an AI named 'CR7' (cartoon avatar). After telling it he had soccer training the next day, he asked for dinner help; the AI suggested grilled honey chicken with pasta and marinara, produced the ingredients list, and gave step-by-step cooking instructions.
The AI built me a dashboard that tracks 1,000 bills and their hearings
She used AI to build a dashboard that scrapes LegiScan for the roughly 1,000 anti-trans bills her team tracked last year, pulling each bill's room number, hearing time, and latest action. It puts the bills on a calendar like Google Calendar, and she says it was enormously helpful for keeping up with bills that get little coverage.
My AI watches my Amazon listings and only speaks up when something changes
WisePPC runs a scheduled the AI check over its own Amazon catalog. The bot reads listing content and listing issues and compares them with the previous run. If nothing changed, it says nothing at all. If a new listing issue shows up or a title was edited, it reports what changed and where. It only reads, and it asks before it changes anything.
Generated a 333-page history book, burning 8M of the 1B free launch
Long-form document generation at a scale that consumed 8 million tokens — 0.8% of the 1-billion-token launch grant — in a single week.
Compared five soldering-station listings, negotiated $50 off, and the user picked up
Upgrading her electronics home lab, a creator had her AI 'Chef' search Facebook Marketplace for soldering stations under $200, compare five listings (Hakko FX-888D, Weller, XYTRONIC, Ryobi), message sellers directly and negotiate $50 off. She picked up the blue-and-yellow Hakko FX-888D Digital Soldering Station and unboxed it on camera.
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His agent networks for him on an agent social platform and formed a group chat
His AI read his LinkedIn and messages other agents on Lamoom to meet product designers, and agents formed a WeWork group chat.
Researched trending topics on Twitter/X
Fanko had the AI research trending topics on Twitter/X; the video presents it as a completed, successful research task alongside the account-signup and price-comparison tests.
My AI keeps our app-versions help page updated by itself
In a diary aside, Manton Reece says his mostly-idle home the AI server automatically updates Micro.blog's 'latest app versions' help page. It checks the currently shipped version and whether an app is in review, while he still writes the release notes by hand.
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