Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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Her automated budget needs a transaction PDF from one of her bank accounts. Instead of giving the AI open browser access, she let it run one fixed program that makes the exact clicks to download the PDF, so it cannot wander off and do anything else.
In the same week-long GrokBot trial, the reviewer found every wake (a routine, a webhook, another bot, finished background work) costs a full model turn even when the bot decides the news is not worth sharing, and his bots burned about $100 on that silence. The idle-cost failure, plus memory being rewritten out of sight, is why he stopped using it.
Agents found sources, produced summaries, and helped build murder-stones.org, a catalogue site for his own historical research.
Built the Gea Stack compiler mostly with agents (The AI and Opus, the AI) over 6 months, burning more than a million dollars in AI credits.
The Product Channel had the AI track a $744 ResMed AirSense 11 purchase three times daily through its 30-day price-guarantee window. It found a $634 price and — after approval of the drafted claim — secured a $121 refund; a second $81.40 claim remains under review.
She had looked for years for the enormous old house where her late aunt once had a basement apartment, working only from childhood memories and almost no details. The AI found it.
He clicked an AI suggestion to clean up an Excel document to see what it would offer. Excel crashed at once, and his unsaved documents could not be recovered.
A man connected the AI to a Robinhood agent subaccount through its connector and gave it as much freedom as he could. It trades on its own and has made a small amount of money so far. He keeps the risk ring fenced in the subaccount rather than his main account.
He had the AI find a way into his ISP device and change its settings. The AI turned it into a wireless access point with 802.11r, added an access point section to the control panel, and turned off the old ISP's updates and telemetry.
Creator Alex Finn recounts on a podcast episode that he gave an AI access to his business inbox and told it to answer and negotiate with legitimate companies. Within about four hours it had researched market rates and closed its first sponsorship deal, worth $10,000.
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.