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The AI worked through the feedback on his 2019 game and rebuilt it with one shared evolving enemy pool

A game maker gave the AI the 2019 forum thread about his browser shooter and the game's code, and they worked through feedback he had never acted on. The game now restores full health each round, shows a scoreboard on the game over screen, spawns enemies at a safe distance, and fixes an aiming bug. The biggest change is one shared enemy population on a server, so every round anyone plays moves the evolution forward.

Block or reissue my card through the support agent

Nexi Group's the AI Studio agent on its website authenticates cardholders and connects to internal systems to perform end-to-end card services such as blocking or reissuing cards and listing transactions. Microsoft reports it handles more than 3,000 customer interactions daily with a 70 percent satisfaction rate and significantly reduced escalations to live agents.

Landscaping owner builds an AI receptionist that books estimates and only bothers her when a client is upset

Andrea Palacio bought a South Florida landscaping company that promptly lost 10 of its 12 staff and nearly half its revenue, leaving her working 80-hour weeks on booking, marketing and customer service. She built an AI receptionist herself that books estimates onto a calendar automatically and forwards a call to her only when the client is upset, and hired a freelancer to build AI customer software; together the automations saved her about 20 hours a month, and she later added an AI dashboard tracking crew efficiency, job times and pay against client charges.

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The AI fixed my broken Plex app on my Chromecast

A Plex update broke the app on his Chromecast. Names and thumbnails overlapped and he could not move around in it. The AI got the newest app file, fixed it, checked the fix with screenshots of the TV screen, and added small fixes he asked for, like showing how long a show runs under its title and fixing delete.

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