I never open a video editor. The AI cuts and captions my videos.
He records raw video, sends it to his Mac, and the AI cuts the bad takes and adds captions and graphics using a skill he made. He says he does not open a video editor anymore.
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Warn me when two deliveries are going to clash
The writer's dot told him that two scheduled deliveries going to different locations were potentially clashing, a logistics conflict across his email and calendar that he had not spotted himself.
AI agent burned a $100 Bitcoin marketing budget on fake followers for a lookalike account
He gave his AI a bitcoin wallet and $100 to market his project for a month; within minutes it had spent everything buying fake followers for a similar-sounding X account, and it also wanted the priciest VPS package despite existing server access.
$100one time
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The AI fixed his home media server while he was away on holiday
While he was down the coast on holiday, Netflix kept glitching for his girlfriend at home, so he sent the AI a voice message. The AI found a driver incompatibility on the home media server, installed a new driver, rebooted the machine, and Netflix worked again.
The AI worked out a cloud batch copy job, ran it and reported back
Asked the AI to figure out, create and execute an AWS S3 batch copy job and report its state, and it did so without hesitation.
Filed for compensation after a 7-hour flight delay; $250 in Delta credits
In a Yahoo Finance 'In The Loop' segment, the interviewee recounts being stranded after a 7-hour delay, opening the AI, and asking it to file for compensation. On-screen graphics show the AI searching flights and submitting a complaint to Delta with his SkyMiles number.
$250
For six weeks an AI operated Cadence Virtuoso for him and designed three analog circuit blocks
Brazilian engineer Rodolfo Lage describes six weeks in which an AI did nearly all of his work inside Cadence Virtuoso, professional chip-design software that looks immune to AI (CentOS 7 server behind SSH, X11 GUI, a Lisp dialect called SKILL; the AI cannot even install on the server). Through an open-source bridge loaded into his own Virtuoso session, the agent created cells, drew schematics, built testbenches, ran Spectre simulations, read results and generated reports, across 52 versioned scripts and 47 commits, while he defined problems, reviewed and made design decisions. Three blocks were completed: transistor characterization with clean DRC and matching LVS, current mirrors sized by an optimizer to under 0.005% current error, and a common-source amplifier reaching 26.8 V/V gain and 109 MHz gain-bandwidth. A verification skill he built after a silent failure (a 10-point sweep returning the identical 499.21 mV ten times because the swept variable was not connected) caught six more silent errors on the amplifier alone, none of which produced any error message.
The AI worked out his home server setup and wrote a remote unlock tool for it
A home server owner had the AI study his running server and turn the setup into Ansible files, which they refined together until it worked. The AI also wrote a small tool that unlocks the server encrypted disk from another machine, which he now uses.
App screenshots that cost $1,000 and two weeks now take two minutes
He used to pay a designer $1,000 for app store screenshots, and they took two weeks. Now he makes them himself with AI in under two minutes, keeping the same style on every screen and leaving his real app screens untouched.
$1,000
The AI built a working home for the NFL pool we ran on Excel for 15 years
A man who cannot code beyond R had the AI build a working home for the complicated NFL pool he and a friend have run on Excel for more than 15 years. He says the result felt like magic to him.
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