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The AI goes through their shared work inbox, makes a list of every email, and sends three spreadsheets out to the departments with their tasks on them. The poster says it has basically changed their life at work.
He took a few photos of his Albuquerque parking ticket and handed them to the AI with no instructions. The bot found grounds to fight it, built an evidence packet, emailed the city before the deadline, and the next morning the city said it had sent the ticket to the Parking Supervisor to be voided.
A man's Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad can only pair with one computer, and the switching tools he found needed both machines awake to work. He used AI to help build his own tool, which moves the pairings to whichever computer is active based on sleep, wake and display events, and he put it on GitHub for anyone to use.
His claim was too small for a lawyer and the insurer had frozen it at $4,430, so he worked it himself with AI holding every letter in order. The agent surfaced six dated contradictions in the adjuster's own letters, including a legal basis for denial that changed three times, and reviewed each of his drafts as opposing counsel before anything was sent. After his letter quoting their own paper back at them, the offers climbed: $6,500, then $8,000, then $8,750, and the insurer accepted his split of the last gap the same morning, at $10,250.
Locally hosted agents rebuilt a Conductor flaw in an isolated lab and got root access inside the test container. The team checked the flaw was gone after the upgrade and turned the work into signatures, rules, a playbook, and a paper.
His podcast ran for 21 years and more than 1,000 episodes in 4 languages. The new site at pomcast.com keeps 154 videos in under 4 MB of plain HTML, and it lists the 121 episodes that only survive in his backup and the 111 that seem lost.
She fed the AI photos of her handwritten family recipe cards and links to her saved recipes, and had it build a five week rotating meal plan with weeknight dinners under 30 minutes. A scheduled the AI prompt now tells her each night what is cooking. The grocery list the AI made was wrong, so she fixed that part by hand.
Made Astra reverse-engineer Onshape's UI to build a middle-man extension exposing an API that bypasses the official API pricing, now used for AI CAD with AI and the AI.
The AI and the AI built his Obsidian plugin, listed in the Obsidian Directory with 65 users, alongside shell scripts, Alfred workflows and Elisp functions for his own setup.
A user lists jobs he handed to the AI, including a delayed flight: he says the AI successfully processed his compensation claim with Delta Air Lines and the money came through. Other jobs in the same post (a Bell Mobility bill dispute, a crypto trading bot) he reports doing himself or failing, and are not recorded here.
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.