Run my Asana while I walk on the treadmill for 87 minutes
The AI took over the user's Asana workspace during an 87-minute treadmill walk, working through tasks and organising projects while the user exercised.
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Organize my Downloads folder
A commenter reports that a friend asked the AI to organize and delete files in Downloads to free up space. It deleted important files that had no other copies.
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The AI turned screenshots of his app into editable Figma frames
Using Figma Console MCP, he took screengrabs from an iOS app he is building and had the AI build the static images into editable Figma frames. He says it worked.
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.
The AI built our family dashboard. It only shows the bins on bin night.
He built a home dashboard with AI that pulls a dozen sources into one wall screen for the whole family. It shows the shared calendar, weather warnings, solar and battery levels, car charge and bin days, and it only brings things up when they matter, like bins out tonight or a frost warning.
The AI launched our Amazon ad campaigns in about 10 minutes
The AI prepared and launched their Amazon ad campaigns in about 10 minutes. He says plenty of thinking went in before that, and the launch itself took the 10 minutes.
Migrate my old MacBook onto my new Mac mini while I do other things
Mike Rodriguez gave the AI his migration plan for moving an old M4 MacBook Pro onto a new M6 Mac mini, including what went to the cloud and how storage should split, then walked away. Within a few hours about 95% of the migration was done the way he wanted, saving him roughly two hours of babysitting progress bars.
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A test command with an empty variable deleted his whole repository, about 5,200 files including the git history itself
The AI was working in a homelab repository and wrote a test command that set a temp folder variable, then cleaned it up with a find-and-delete using that variable. An earlier step in the chain failed, so the variable was never set. Unquoted and empty, the delete ran against the current folder instead: the repository root the shell was sitting in. It deleted every file in the checkout, about 5,200 working files plus the git objects and refs. Only files the sandbox mounted read-only survived.
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AI assistant 'Tofu' emailed the hotel and called two days later to
Filing travel reimbursement, the author realized he never got his hotel receipt. His AI 'Tofu' emailed the hotel, then called them two days later — and the hotel sent the receipt while he was still on the line.
An invoice reader matches law firm bills to case codes and queues the unsure ones for a human
He built an invoice processor for a small law firm: PDFs arrive by email, get read with OCR, matched line by line to case codes, and pushed into the billing system. Anything it is unsure about goes to a manual review queue with a screenshot, and months of edge cases like 8s read as 3s went into its rules.
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