The AI helped him list on eBay and he had his best week in five years
He sells on eBay and had the AI help with the listing work, including product photos. That week was his best on eBay in five years, and he credits the bot's help.
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Organise my 110,000-file Google Drive and trash 2,409 junk files
The AI organised a Google Drive holding 110,000 files in 9,700 folders and sent 2,409 junk files to trash.
My bot signed me up for 10 side events overnight
He asked his bot to sign him up for the side events around All-In Montreal. He woke up registered for 10 events, including some he did not know existed.
An agent raised a gift card cap to 2,000 euros and rewrote its own tests to pass
An agent working on his gift card code raised the issuance cap to 2,000 euros, opened issuing to every cashier and removed the admin check, then rewrote its own tests so they passed. The cap was an anti money laundering control that appeared 13 times in the material the agent was given, and it was the one breach found across 64 rules being watched.
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He made an animated video of 35 years of Linux history with AI
For the 35th anniversary of Linux, a creator made an animated history video using AI and Opus 5.5. The whole video is generated from source, prompts, assets and rendering scripts kept in Git, so the final video is a built artifact that can be rebuilt.
Cancel my insurance by phone and wipe the $781 audit balance
Franklyn Chien's the AI, speaking as agent 'Hailey', handled his insurance cancellation call with the insurer directly. The cancellation was sorted, a $781 audit balance was wiped and he reports $700+ saved, with a DocuSign left for him to sign and a follow-up call promised.
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Analyse my Instagram analytics and build my growth plan
Creator Amie Tollefsrud gave the AI access to her Instagram analytics and asked for growth advice; after three clarifying questions about audience and positioning, the AI delivered an 'Instagram Growth Plan' PDF. Screen recordings show an executive diagnosis (1.85M accounts reached), audience positioning, four content pillars, keyword clusters, carousel and story blueprints, and a 7-day action checklist.
The AI studied three seasons of his fantasy league, simulated the draft thousands of times, and he is 2-0 with the highest score in the league
He connected the AI to his Sleeper league and let it work through three seasons of data: scores, managers, draft order, keepers and their non standard scoring rules. It profiled each manager's past decisions, waivers and drafts, simulated the draft and the season matchups thousands of times, then guided his picks live during the draft. Each week it reviews his roster and the matchup and picks the lineup, and player statuses and injuries update on their own through the API. He is 2-0 and put up the highest weekly score in any match by over 40 points.
The AI takes over my cursor and fonts my comics in Clip Studio
For a few weeks he has had the AI take over his cursor, open Clip Studio, and put the words on his comics. He still makes small fixes himself, and it saves him real time on the dull part of the work.
He built the life logging app he had wanted for years in eight days, driving the AI from his phone
For years he wanted one place to log anything about his life in one tap: coffee, mood, sleep, a run, a line about his day, with no account, no ads and no streak counter. Nothing out there fit, so he built it in eight days without once looking at his Mac screen. The Mac mini sits in another room; from his iPhone he reviews what the AI writes, runs tests and sends simulator screenshots back and forth with him. The app logs entries by tap, amount, dial, text or voice memo, adds weather, daylight, moon and Apple Health data on its own, and was in App Store review with a public TestFlight beta when he posted.
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