Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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He built geo-v.eu, a live calendar of EU political and economic events that runs to 2028. The AI Haiku judges each candidate event against his written editorial standard, the pipeline hunts for the outcome for five days after each event, and the site rebuilds daily from static files.
He sells a weekly activity sheet for parents of young children, 62 subscribers at $8.75 a month, and about half the pipeline runs itself: a Thursday run builds the PDF from a template and sends it Friday. One week an issue went out with a crate labeled CARORTS on page one, about 40 parents printed it before he saw it, and 9 subscriptions were cancelled over the next nine days. He now holds every issue for his own read through before it sends.
Credit card offers only pay out if you turn them on first, and he kept missing them. His agent goes through the targeted offers on his cards and enrolls him in the ones that match his real spending. He calls it free money he was leaving on the table.
The AI ported CADO-NFS to GPUs and orchestrated a fleet on scavenged idle capacity, running about 30 GPU-years over 10 days to factor RSA-260.
A maker had the AI design a circuit that shows a picture stored in a memory chip on a standard VGA screen, using common logic chips, and write the chip code for it. He routed the board himself, had it made for $6, fixed the one missed error with a wire, and the board works.
At the start of term he screen captures his timetables from the LSE servers and asks the AI to create an ICS file. He can then drop the file straight into his calendar.
Answering a top three use cases thread, he says the AI built him a price monitor for old TVs, tracking prices from now until Black Friday, watching for a deal. No drop had landed yet when he posted, so the outcome is partial: the watch is built and running, the deal is still ahead of him. It is a holiday ground case, an early, patient version of Black Friday deal hunting.
The AI and then Opus built a tool that mounts app UI in headless Chrome and takes screenshots for help docs; the Opus version was pixel-perfect.
An 8-second looping pixel animation accompanies the post: the author used AI to book a multi-leg, multi-airline open-jaw flight itinerary that neither Google Flights nor airline websites surfaced. It was ticketed through Duffel's API and came out cheaper.
Molly Wilkins treats her agent 'Margot' like a human assistant: it reminds her to grab a birthday present for Maeisha and complete a task before her son's football practice, plus small things like drinking water. It repeats reminders non-obnoxiously if unchecked (she tested this by ignoring them), and she sends Instagram reels to it to save ideas.
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.