Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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He told the AI the ebook he is writing only had endnotes with no links, not footnotes linked in the text. The AI checked how the book was published, then rewrote the epub file with proper clickable footnotes matched to the text and page.
J.t. Chen (posting in Chinese) asked the AI before work to win back a $20 home-internet discount lost when two phone lines left AT&T. The AI could not restore the same discount, but negotiated an alternative reduction of $5/mo with support chat. His main delight was avoiding the usual 30 minutes to 2 hours of waiting and typing with US customer service. In comments he clarified the AI works over web text chat, not phone calls.
The AI updated a website he manages for a charity and on its own scanned beneficiary header images to add information to the writeup; done well.
He and his wife hold pensions, SIPPs, property, mortgages and ISAs across seven or more places. He built a planner that aggregates and prices all of it, projects future values, and sends push alerts with rebalance signals when goals are met. The monthly Excel update he used to do by hand is now a five minute browse.
The AI took care of an Epiphan VGA2USB driver problem he had been sitting on, driver posted on GitHub.
The user built EVA, a family assistant on the AI, which finds what matters in school email, tracks deadlines, updates the family calendar, and answers questions about what is coming up.
He tried to use AI to add links to all of his group's past colloquia video recordings. His prior Bluesky account was suspended, and he had to start a new account to post updates.
0507uniuni sent the AI a photo of a license plate and a parking sign. The AI estimated the time needed after a comedy show, found the payment page, and paid for parking through Stripe Link.
Home Assistant sends a bin camera image to the Anthropic API, gets JSON for which bins are visible, notifies him which bins to put out or return, and lights a color LED Bindicator; the AI configured the automations via MCP.
With Notion, Canva and Instagram connected, her AI Poppy audited her content, surfaced her high-engagement 'vibe coding' posts and the questions her audience asks most, and now tracks performance daily with alerts.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.