Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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He wanted to type into a remote tmux session from his phone. The AI wrote a script that finds the pane, watches for his messages, and injects the text as keystrokes, and it works.
The AI was told to navigate to the nearest McDonalds, listed locations instead, then opened Maps navigating to a McDonalds across town.
Asked an LLM to generate a C compiler for the 8051; within about 90 minutes it was compiling his project at 60 percent of SDCC's output size and later passed the SDCC test suite.
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.
Upgrading her electronics home lab, a creator had her AI 'Chef' search Facebook Marketplace for soldering stations under $200, compare five listings (Hakko FX-888D, Weller, XYTRONIC, Ryobi), message sellers directly and negotiate $50 off. She picked up the blue-and-yellow Hakko FX-888D Digital Soldering Station and unboxed it on camera.
In the same CEO's US business line, an agent reviews the call-center operators' calls, transcripts and CRM results every day, then writes the human supervisor's task list with numbers and deadlines and sends each operator 3–4 small skills to fix from their own recent calls. Each skill is marked pass or fail every evening and closes after three consecutive passes; the agent only suggests — people decisions stay with people.
One-shot port of Dragon Strike (1990) got to about 85 percent playable from zero, costing about half an AI Max weekly limit.
A traveller's the AI checked him in for his flight automatically as soon as check-in opened. It told him his boarding group and sent him his boarding pass, with nothing for him to remember or open.
The self-scan ran 2026-09-23 and confirmed capabilities present on the device that Meta's public documentation doesn't mention.
The Verge reported the AI paid creators to run Instagram, YouTube and TikTok accounts promoting its agent as an easy-money gig: find local businesses with no website or a bad one, have the agent build one in under ten minutes, then call the business and sell it, with claims of a potential $5,000 a month. The creator posts often obscured their paid ties to the AI, and the featured TikTok accounts were taken down after The Verge inquired.
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