His agent read interview transcripts and wrote the lyrics for a tribute song
For a tribute video, his AI read transcripts of a man's interviews and talks and wrote song lyrics from them. The finished video was produced and published.
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His agent emailed and phoned Columbia about a return. The call died when it was transferred.
He wanted to return pants to Columbia. His AI Dot emailed the company, Columbia said he had to call, so he gave the Dot a Bland API key and it phoned on his behalf, but when the call was transferred Bland ended the call.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Turned 12 detox-soup ingredients into an Amazon Whole Foods cart totaling $30.79
Nutritionist's agent 'WALL-E' pulled 12 ingredients (cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, zucchini, bell pepper, tomatoes, herbs, garlic, lemon, salt) from her detox-soup recipe, added them to an Amazon Whole Foods cart, and presented checkout review at $30.79 with next-day 5-6pm delivery in Beverly Hills. Delivery was filmed the next morning.
$30.79
Turned a whole book into a chapter-by-chapter podcast series with subagents handling
Author Matt Deitke fed an entire book to the AI and had it generate a chapter-by-chapter podcast website, with subagents handling chapters in parallel. The output was a finished multi-episode podcast series derived from the book.
WhatsApp agent guided students to first investment
An agent on WhatsApp stayed with finance course students until they made a first investment. When a person was needed it handed over the talk with the history summed up.
Erica at Bank of America ordered my replacement card
The poster used Erica, the Bank of America AI assistant, to order a replacement card, and says it was faster than hunting through the bank's menus. Erica went from a curiosity to a time saver.
The AI could not turn my email into a calendar entry
He says the AI failed today at a basic job, turning an email into a calendar entry. He does not think he should have to pay for failures like that.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
For six weeks an AI operated Cadence Virtuoso for him and designed three analog circuit blocks
Brazilian engineer Rodolfo Lage describes six weeks in which an AI did nearly all of his work inside Cadence Virtuoso, professional chip-design software that looks immune to AI (CentOS 7 server behind SSH, X11 GUI, a Lisp dialect called SKILL; the AI cannot even install on the server). Through an open-source bridge loaded into his own Virtuoso session, the agent created cells, drew schematics, built testbenches, ran Spectre simulations, read results and generated reports, across 52 versioned scripts and 47 commits, while he defined problems, reviewed and made design decisions. Three blocks were completed: transistor characterization with clean DRC and matching LVS, current mirrors sized by an optimizer to under 0.005% current error, and a common-source amplifier reaching 26.8 V/V gain and 109 MHz gain-bandwidth. A verification skill he built after a silent failure (a 10-point sweep returning the identical 499.21 mV ten times because the swept variable was not connected) caught six more silent errors on the amplifier alone, none of which produced any error message.
New-dad assistant 'Atlas': planned 4-day workouts synced to calendar, found and ordered
New dad Crawford Collins (verified, 1.1M) personalized his agent as 'Atlas'. Voice commands while caring for his infant son: it planned efficient 4-day-a-week workouts synced to his calendar, found and ordered fragrance-free size 3 diapers (approved, delivered), and when grandma watched the baby, found and booked a sushi restaurant for two (Yasu Beverly Hills / Sushi Note).
The AI acts as a full fitness trainer: photo meal logs, a Week 1 report, water reminders
Her AI logs meals from photos, tracks workouts, and produced a Week 1 report with average calories, protein, activity days, deficit and pace; it pings her three times a day for water and generates weekly and monthly reports.
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