It did my Christmas shopping for my wife and I do not know what it bought
He let the AI do his Christmas shopping and it completed a purchase for his wife. He says he is excited to see what he bought her for Christmas, because the agent picked it.
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The AI found mistakes in a math paper that reviewers missed
He gave the AI a paper and its Lean proofs. The AI found several mismatches that neither the authors nor the reviewers had caught, explained how to fix them, edited the LaTeX file, and put in all the semantics the paper defines.
Found and cancelled $295 in unused subscriptions
Parker Pannell asked the AI to save money on subscriptions. It found and canceled $295 in unused subscriptions.
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Research my book's comps on Amazon
For his author test week, Christopher Kokoski pointed the AI at Amazon to research comparable titles (what is selling, cover styles, reviewer complaints). Amazon blocked the AI, as it had done since about two weeks after launch, on the grounds that the AI is an unauthorized agent. Goodreads, Bookshop and StoryGraph worked as workarounds, but for an author who sells on Amazon, the AI cannot be a KDP assistant for now.
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Pay the real bills that arrive in my email
After dry-running a personal-assistant the AI through August, its owner let it pay a real $3,731 bill that arrived by email; routines now watch his Gmail for invoices three times a day. The first live payment went through under the watch setup he had tested for a month.
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An invoice helper grew over nine months into the system that runs his field service firm
He started nine months ago with help making a better invoice. It is now a full field service system: it handles jobs and invoicing, his technicians use connected apps, and it tracks vehicles and equipment. The latest addition is tool tracking with Bluetooth tags.
Used a self-hosted HTTP API over SSH to search Amazon and add
After Amazon blocked automated login windows, a user built a small HTTP API on a machine they control. The AI SSHes in and calls http://127.0.0.1:8792 to search Amazon and add items to a personal or Prime Business cart (no checkout).
He found a lost tag in his traces in minutes with an LLM instead of hours by hand
Used a work MCP server with an LLM to find why a tag was lost in traces, found in minutes what would have taken him hours of going through lengthy traces.
I gave the AI my firmware and it built the iOS app for it
He had never written Swift. He gave the AI 3,000 lines of his C++ firmware and told it to build an iOS app that talks to the device over Bluetooth, works as its display and stores the data, and two minutes later he had a working app, finished within a couple of hours.
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