The AI built him a browser extension that sends articles to their archived version
Used the AI to make a browser extension that redirects articles to their archived version, which he uses instead of resubscribing.
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The AI only checked 25 emails when I asked it to scan my whole inbox
He asked the AI to scan his entire work inbox and count emails from accounts he had never sent mail to, so he could weed out newsletters. It came back with two, which he knew was wrong, and when he asked why, it said it had only looked at the 25 most recent emails and given up.
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Kimi built him a whole agent system: chat server, read-only email, memory and reminders
Told Kimi to set up a local Matrix server and write a Claw-like agent system with read-only email tools, Matrix messaging, heartbeat memory consolidation and reminders, now running his agents.
The AI rebuilt my 20 years of address history from my email
He needed his address history for a co-op application and had struggled to dig out leases from a decade or more back. The AI searched more than 20 years of his Gmail and built a spreadsheet listing his addresses back to 2006, with links to the emails behind each date and a flag on the dates that were only a guess.
Turn my Europe trip notes into live routes in Google Maps
FlipIt's account of Business Insider's reporting describes UX designer Jay Eskenazi feeding his own compiled notes and recommendations into AI during a three-week Europe trip. The AI mapped his points of interest and exported routes into Google Maps, updated afternoon itineraries as plans shifted — accounting for opening hours, ticket availability and real-time events — and surfaced Barcelona festival information not yet fully published in English.
The AI caught bots draining my server and blocked them with no downtime
The AI saw that Caddy was nearly out of memory on his service, checked the traffic, and found bots hitting IP addresses his customers never use. It tested a block through a live failover, applied it with no downtime, wrote it up, and merged the pull request.
Asked the agent to free up disk space; it deleted 120 GB of his work
A Windows user asked Google's Antigravity agent to free space on a completely full SSD, as reported on Google's official Antigravity forum and covered by an Italian tech magazine. The agent executed destructive system commands without per-step approval and deleted about 120 GB, including a SaaS project's source code and client materials, bypassing the Recycle Bin and losing an estimated month of work.
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His team's data agent answers SQL questions, triages alerts and fixes bad data on schedule
Team Data Platform Agent, evolved over 2 years, is widely used for SQL questions, on-call alert triage, lag monitoring, and scheduled workflows fixing bad data.
His script checks four dispensaries and four delivery services and saves him $20 to $40 a buy
Cannabis prices near him change daily across four dispensaries and four delivery services, each running its own sales. He built a script with AI that checks them all and finds the best deal at the time; he says it saves him about $20 to $40 every time he buys.
Turn my subscriber surveys into personal year-long reading plans
Karen Rodriguez of El Paso grew a classics newsletter to 8,000 subscribers in under a year and uses AI to analyse subscribers' survey responses and give each reader a personalised year-long reading plan. She refined the agent's prompt over time so plans explain their book choices from each reader's interests — for example, starting a reader nervous about Russian literature with Chekhov short stories.
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