Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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A third anecdote in Simmons's roundup describes a Dot that kept emailing a hotel for two days, then found the general manager's name and emailed them directly. The eventual outcome of the escalation is not stated.
The AI plus Jev built a browser extension in about 10 minutes that ranks HN comments for sloppiness, which he uses to view HN.
In Simmons's roundup of other Dots users, one person's Dot read a cancellation email, checked live tracking on an earlier train, found it running late and got its owner onto it. The account is secondhand and brief.
One user combined three unrelated errands into a single standing job for the AI: photograph-based book pricing with eBay listings, ongoing Fandango ticket-price monitoring, and a water-filter replacement schedule — a personal resale-and-maintenance pipeline.
She says she used AI, cross-checked by two more AIs, to put together a legal complaint and file it herself, without a lawyer.
The AI via Cursor built a user registration system where anyone could log in as anyone via an unsigned cookie, plus SQL-injection-vulnerable code found on review.
A directory-listed the AI called Spam-Call Scrubber finds its owner’s phone number on people-search and data-broker sites, submits the opt-outs, finishes the confirmations, and re-checks on a schedule. It replaces a paid data-removal service with a standing bot.
He updated kim-olsen.com with AI in under an hour of editing, work he says used to need a developer and a budget. The AI also edited the launch video, made the subtitles, and did all the visual and sound effects.
An experienced traveller who hates planning had the AI plan his recent trip to China and book everything — flights, hotels, tickets and attractions — leaving him only the final pay button to click. Before travelling he ran the finished itinerary past a fresh session told to find errors, and it caught one: he was scheduled to be at the wrong train station.
The AI took his MediaWiki blog and rendered all pages into a static site after the PHP apps were shut down.
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.