Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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In a clip from David Senra's interview with Meta's Alexandr Wang (shared on Instagram by someone), Senra recounts a billion-dollar-company founder friend who left his ID on a plane and told the AI he didn't want to be involved in the recovery process at all. The AI arranged a courier, coordinated with building security, went to the office, retrieved the ID, and got it back to him.
He had the AI start his tax work this year and it caught that his property manager had double billed him for invoices on an investment property. The catch saved him $6,000, and the token cost of finding it was about $6.
LLM audited about 100k lines of tests, deleted about 60k useless lines, wrote broader scenario tests, and caught and fixed bugs, in about 2 hours.
He built Barrelbound with GPT-6 Astra and generated art. The game has two heroes, three jungle courses, barrels and double jumps, and anyone can play it free in the browser.
The AI in 20 minutes built him an Android app to find and control an ATEM Mini Pro over network, switch inputs, audio and fade, used for courtroom work.
He used AI with a browser add-on in Brave to clean out his Gmail. His account now has about 50% free space.
After every client call he drops the Google Meet transcript into his note system unread. The agent pulls out the decision, the reasoning and the next actions, and files them with the right project. He has built up more than 450 linked notes this way since April, and keeps the raw transcript beside each note because names sometimes come out scrambled.
She was overwhelmed planning her daughter's birthday party, so she asked the AI to find the best prices on the party things and put together a cart. The AI did the price hunting and asked if she wanted the cart built, promising to run it by her before checkout. She said yes. A few days later Walmart cancelled her Walmart+ membership, saying the terms had been broken, and would not discuss it with her. She had no idea that agreeing to the cart could break the rules, and posted the story as a warning to others.
The maker said his new Leica DISTO D2 laser measure did not work with Linux. He and the AI worked out how to connect it to his Linux computer anyway, so he can capture data for his new apartment.
Opus 5.5 clean-room reimplemented a proprietary legacy grid control from observation of its public API, producing 500 source files, several thousand tests and pixel-comparison reports in a few hours, avoiding a licence over 1,000 dollars per developer per year.
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.