Ask the AI, and the event lands on my calendar
He runs AI on his homelab. He can ask the AI to throw an event on his calendar and it appears, and the setup can also send events to his primary calendar by email.
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Hunt down a deal on the iPad keyboard I want
As part of shopping research Harry McCracken threw at his Dot, it surfaced a $100-off deal on a Magic Keyboard for his iPad that he says he would never have located on his own.
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My AI automation posts my Goodreads updates to BookHive on its own
He built an automation with AI that runs on Val Town. It reads his Goodreads progress updates and reviews from RSS and cross posts them to bookhive.buzz as AT Protocol records.
An agent went through his father-in-law’s records and found the medication mistakes
A man gave an agent all of his father-in-law’s care records and made it the coordinator across the many doctors involved. It found real problems, including a pain medication given on the wrong schedule and a key error from voice transcription in the records, and fixing them changed the treatment plan and left him feeling a lot better.
Run PC maintenance and organize my drives with AI
A SuperGrok subscriber reports doing a lot of PC maintenance and drive organization through AI, burning through only 33 percent of his usage allowance with four days still left in the cycle.
A barcode library built with a new model, tested on labelled real-world images, published in 3 languages
Used GPT-6 to develop a new barcode scanner library, built a labelled real-world test suite, and published it for JS, Python and Rust.
Three days of the AI on a small home computer produced two working sites
He ran AI for three days on a headless ThinkCentre Tiny in the corner, driving it from a browser. Out came a learning page that walks through one job of an AI agent from order to approval to publishing, and a playable online photo darkroom where visitors expose their own photo and the file never leaves their browser.
The AI re-ran its document script and wiped out 40 minutes of his Word edits
A session generated a Word document with a script. The user then edited the document in Word for about 40 minutes and saved. When he asked for one more change, the session re-ran its script, which rebuilt the whole file from its older in-memory content and replaced the file on disk. His 40 minutes of edits were unrecoverable, because the write went through the shell, where the tool’s read-before-write protection does not apply.
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The AI rebuilt a ZX81 memory dump game in Go and got every step right
Asked the AI to build a ZX81 memory dump game in Go; it nailed it, converting the binary back to BASIC and then to Go.
Plumbing owner's agents run the back office, but big quotes stay human
Plumbing company owner Jon O'Neill listed the agent workflows live in his shop: email triage, job booking by text and email, truck and warehouse restocking, fleet maintenance reminders, scanning sold-job notes for missed opportunities, drafting quotes from tech notes and photos, job routing, review requests and missed-call texting. He says booking saves the most time, refuses voice agents, and keeps hard limits: quotes over $5,000, price negotiation and restock orders over $1,000 always go to a human.
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