The AI set up my Twitch profile for me
He had the AI set up his Twitch profile and says it does not look too bad. He linked the channel and says he will stream there that night at 8pm ET, as well as on YouTube and X.
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My agent watches for date nights and found the last show at a theater my husband loves
Every few days the AI checks for date night ideas for Eleanor Konik: English language opera near her, what is playing at local dinner theaters, and anything unusually cheap, and it emails her when something fits. It found Grease as the very last show in the old building of a dinner theater her husband has wanted to take her to for years, and a Young Frankenstein showing at a dinner theater an hour away she had never heard of, which she went to.
After 13 unpaid pull requests, his agent now spots bounty scams first
He submitted 13 pull requests to projects advertising GitHub bounties and was paid for none of them. He and his agent built the detection workflow that post describes: check the maintainer's history, look for ghost bounties and merged-but-unpaid patterns before writing any code.
Write a driver so my old printer works on the new macOS
An old printer orphaned by macOS 27 got a second life: The AI wrote the driver while using its owner as the diagnostic instrument - asking him to judge whether each line was progressively less visible, whether page one's DPI was lower - until the printer printed correctly again.
The AI moved his product's database over a weekend; months later he is still happy
Migrated his product from DynamoDB to Postgres over a weekend with AI and has been happy with the change 4 to 6 months later.
The AI phone control tapped the comment box and typed gibberish into a reply
A user let the AI drive his iPhone to answer his Reddit comments: it opened Reddit, typed replies and checked text before sending, completing 8 replies. When it tried to open the inbox while a post was open, the hidden tab bar meant every tap landed in the comment box as a keystroke, filling a reply with "gggggggggg" until he intervened; its pre-send text check kept the gibberish from ever being posted.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI added screenshot support to his presentation tool in under 5 minutes
The AI added programmatic PowerPoint screenshot support to his markdown-pptx tool in under 5 minutes.
Price-shopped undershirts, found the cheapest in the user's size at JCPenney, loaded
The Yet Another Value Blog author needed new undershirts and asked the AI to find the cheapest ones in his size, even matching his last brand. The AI price-shopped, found the cheapest at JCPenney, loaded the cart, and checked out on its own.
The AI rebuilt our network proxy tool in 6 weeks. Doing it by hand had taken 16 months.
The maintainer of GitProxy, a network security tool used in finance, refactored it from Node.js to Java with AI working as a pair. Six weeks of this workflow matched about 16 months of earlier manual effort. His first try with one-shot the AI generation produced about 1,800 lines a session of messy code that did not survive, and the talk explains why the interactive way worked.
The AI took his favourite Chrome plugin from his own install and ported it to Safari
A man who uses three browsers daily always missed plugins in Safari. He told the AI it could get the source code of one of his favourite Chrome plugins from his Chrome install, then port it and install it in Safari. After 20 minutes and a few dollars of his plan, he had Session Buddy working in Safari.
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