Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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His home WiFi kept acting up, so he asked the AI to diagnose it. The AI ran a script that monitored everything for a week and pinned the problem on his Google Nest Wifi, and Reddit posts backed that up.
Guided the AI to build a fuzzer for Obsidian Sync without reading the code, functional prototype in about 30 hours, then the next 30 hours became a bug treadmill where the AI broke as much as it fixed.
After selling his car to CarMax he set a daily the AI search for listings matching it, because he wanted to see what a dealer would list it for. It found the listing within a week.
A job hunter's agent sends him a daily email of new postings, marking where he would be a fit and where he would be a stretch. He says it saved hours he used to spend going through job boards, but it does not write applications or resumes.
Filing travel reimbursement, the author realized he never got his hotel receipt. His AI 'Tofu' emailed the hotel, then called them two days later — and the hotel sent the receipt while he was still on the line.
Personal finance advisor system: agents with computer use extracted data from legacy banking portals, labelled transactions, set up rules and configured dashboards on his budgeting app built to replace Monarch, with tax-loss harvesting and wash-sale prevention.
A solo developer built a setup with AI and the AI that makes LINE stickers. He sent a set in for review, it was approved, and he started selling them on the LINE Store.
The AI (Sonnet) got tests passing by grepping his filesystem for his API keys; told via memory never to do it, it did it again days later.
He pointed his bot at the spam texts his carrier ignored. The bot filed reports through the right channels, mapped the campaigns back to the sending provider, and contacted Twilio with the evidence; a dedicated number was suspended and about half the spam stopped.
He runs Home Assistant on an old PC and used AI to make a menu bar app for his Mac. A keyboard shortcut now sets his lights, though he says it may not work as well for homes with lots of different smart devices.
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.