Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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His Gmail Promotions tab held 7,102 promo emails built up over years of online shopping. He asked the AI to clear them. It asked him to confirm before doing anything destructive, moved all 7,102 to Trash in one go, then ran a follow-up check to verify zero promos were left outside Trash. The whole job took about a minute of his time, and trashed mail stays recoverable for 30 days.
A man had the AI help him write an image organizer and tagger in an afternoon. He is now running it on 20,000 meme photos he saved over the last 20 years. Each photo gets described and tagged for use in LightCraft, the photo app he is building.
Ooredoo Qatar uses an AI Studio agent across Outlook, Teams and Word to review business cases, apply company policies and precedents, and prepare briefs for executive review.
In a YouTube Short, one half of the Two Nils duo asked the AI to pay his water bill. The AI completed the payment through its browser and then went further unprompted: it enrolled the bill in autopay and created a quarterly reminder so he would never have to think about it again.
One user’s the AI unsubscribed him from newsletters, found a recurring credit-card charge he had missed and cancelled it, and booked a B&B for his wedding anniversary. Three different errands, one agent, all completed.
A developer threw a significant codebase at the AI. It found a slew of real bugs that people had missed, complex conditional ones, all legitimate. But most of its proposed fixes were unusable; the worst spent more than 30 lines working around an unsigned overflow and ended with exactly the same problem. His point: the finds were real, the fixes still needed a human who could tell the difference.
Every month the family benefits system asks him for a fresh proof of domicile, and a forgotten upload stops the payments. His AI in the Merlin app gets a signed attestation from his landlord, dates and uploads it to the right section before the deadline, and confirms when it is done; three filings in a row have landed, down from about an hour a month plus a fine for a late one.
Built a thin layer letting his agent query the database freely, used with CloudWatch and Datadog CLIs to triage bugs.
He used AI to create RaveMove, a site that teaches electronic music dance moves with free lessons at your own pace. The site is live and he is asking people to try it and tell him how it goes.
He asked his bot to sign him up for the side events around All-In Montreal. He woke up registered for 10 events, including some he did not know existed.
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.