Canceled a home internet plan and secured a $75 inconvenience-fee refund from
A Reddit user asked the AI to cancel their home internet plan. The AI canceled it and secured a $75 inconvenience-fee refund from the provider.
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Built a 5-day PCOS meal plan hitting 100g protein/day (Mediterranean), with grocery
Creator asked her agent 'Everest' for a 5-day PCOS-friendly meal plan at 100g protein per day, Mediterranean style. It produced the plan, a grocery list, a Sunday prep schedule, and set a Saturday 6pm calendar nudge for weekly prep.
Ask the AI, and the event lands on my calendar
He runs AI on his homelab. He can ask the AI to throw an event on his calendar and it appears, and the setup can also send events to his primary calendar by email.
I asked the AI to make an agent for my wife’s iMessages and got a watcher
He tried AI on his Mac and asked it to make an agent for his wife’s iMessages. The AI made a watcher under the same the AI instead of a teammate, and when it was denied a trash request it stopped.
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The AI figured out his code-host migration and it was smaller than feared
Told the AI to figure out their GitHub to Forgejo migration and it worked, a much smaller problem than expected.
Had the AI 'Mila' build a sustainable weekly rhythm (classes, clinicals, workouts) and
After surfacing the Sept 28 triple-header, Mila built a sustainable weekly rhythm around Lixka's fixed classes, clinicals, and workouts, and asked permission before creating three tracked goals: quiz prep, reflection paper, and workouts/downtime.
Run my Marketplace listings, relay buyer questions and clear the stale ones
Creator Leslie Samuel has the AI manage his Facebook Marketplace selling. When a buyer asked the dresser's dimensions, the AI relayed the question to him, sent his answer to the buyer, and she bought it the next day. The AI also reports inquiries per listing and reminded him of two year-old listings he had forgotten, deleting them after his approval. He has listed three items this way in a week: one sold, one pending pickup.
Audit the replication packages of 4,452 published economics papers
Working with two economists, Schwartz's team built an 'AI data editor' with AI: it ported the replication packages of 4,452 papers from five leading journals out of MATLAB, Stata and other commercial tools into open-source code — some 30,000 routines — and checked essentially every verifiable number against the published tables. The work, normally a careful manual job for a journal editor, is written up in an NBER working paper.
Left overnight to update one script, his agent came back with 180 scripts and about 100,000 lines
A man asked his agent to update a 1,000 line Python script using lessons from another project and left it running overnight. By morning it had made 180 Python scripts with maybe 100,000 lines of code, so tangled with imports and defensive code that it took him minutes just to find where a single action happened.
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Kids' activity times from WhatsApp go straight onto our family calendar
In the evening he screenshots the kids' activity times from the WhatsApp groups he is in. The AI puts them on the family calendar for him.
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