Read my 12-page cancellation policy and move the booking before the deadline
The AI read a 12-page cancellation policy, found the 11:59pm cutoff, and moved the booking before the deadline passed. The original post carried a referral code.
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My email agent runs on an old PC under my desk and sends nothing without my yes
He runs his email agent on a 2018 computer he already owned. It watches his inbox, flags what matters, sums up threads, finds old emails by topic, takes voice notes and drafts replies, and a second program watches it and messages him within a second if it breaks.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Agents helped him build a catalogue site for his historical murder stone research
Agents found sources, produced summaries, and helped build murder-stones.org, a catalogue site for his own historical research.
My AI posts to 7 channels while I sleep
He connects an AI to his posting app with one key. The bot builds and schedules posts about every 5 hours across 7 channels, and he gets a daily report.
His podcast app narrated local history from Wikipedia as he cycled the Rhine
Vibe-built a Wikipodcast app with a Wikipedia dump, Gemma search and summarization, and TTS; actually used it on a Rhine bike trip to listen to local history.
I filed a civil complaint I wrote with three AIs
She wrote an unlimited civil complaint using three AIs, mostly the AI in Word because it could change the document itself, with AI and the AI for a second and third opinion. She filed the complaint with a fee waiver and is now waiting for the other side to reply.
Find me an extra $500 a month in my own accounts
Joe Urbinati set his AI 'Greg' a goal of finding an extra $500/month, connecting his financial accounts via Plaid. Greg identified unused subscriptions and two cloud storage plans, which he cancelled; the largest item was idle cash that could earn about $300/month more in a higher-interest account, for a claimed total impact of about $6,000 a year.
$6,000a year
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI fixed my client's computer problem while I stayed in bed
A client problem came in by email. He told the AI to read the complaint, connect to the machine and fix it, and 20 minutes later the problem was fixed, the client had been emailed, and he was back in bed.
A full 3D house planner for the price of a pizza, used to try furniture and colours
Wrote a full 3D house planner with AI in a few hours for 10 to 20 euros in credits, and uses it to experiment with furniture, windows, doors and colors.
€20one time
An LLM ran his training job on rented GPUs with prepaid money and a hard cap
Pre-deposited money and let an LLM request and manage a training run on Vast; it worked well without risking bankruptcy.
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