Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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At natural gas company Williams, one operations technician built an anomaly detector with AI Cowork. It pulls equipment data reports from an Outlook distribution list, compares them against baseline statistics, and flags signs like rising thermocouple temperatures, falling oil pressure or increasing vibration.
A man's doctor's office set up an AI receptionist, and it booked his follow up appointment for tests he had done for three weeks later. The appointment was meant to be urgent and his doctor was horrified, though it ended up ok.
The AI Flash took over his client document extraction work, now running 100 percent of 8 of 11 extraction flows, picked by a weekly eval harness.
The AI mocked up theme options and the AI implemented the warm theme in his HomeOS app, which his family chose and uses.
A Reddit user asked the AI to cancel their home internet plan. The AI canceled it and secured a $75 inconvenience-fee refund from the provider.
Her AI logs meals from photos, tracks workouts, and produced a Week 1 report with average calories, protein, activity days, deficit and pace; it pings her three times a day for water and generates weekly and monthly reports.
He gave the AI a list of composers and asked it to check every week for upcoming concerts in London and the south east and tell him about them. It showed him something else instead.
His scheduled search looks 8 days to 12 weeks out for same day return flights from Stansted under £30, and checks Eurostar promo fares too. The point is the tobacco run: 200 cigarettes cost him about £150 at home and about £50 abroad, and he gets a day in a city he would not normally visit out of it.
An LLM looked up CNC plasma cutter specs and wrote Python to generate and debug G-code toolpaths, then he cut the result in steel.
A client needed a small design job that would have taken him hours. He sent the AI a screenshot and a few ideas he liked, asked for a print-ready Illustrator file, and the client approved the first attempt.
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.