Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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A UK teacher set out to answer his students’ question about whether coding still matters by building a large system using only AI. Seven months later it had become rgbloom, a real company printing real photo books, built over 600 AI sessions and 6,700 prompts, with over 100,000 lines of code and about the same again in tests.
He lost the source code for his macOS 8 PowerPC programs three decades ago. The AI decompiled the binaries, turned them into a web app, and then converted them to Dylan with OpenDylan.
His team's agents wrote thousands of files of supposed business logic and decisions as a codebase mental model; it went stale fast and one unreviewed false entry cascaded into misconceptions across whole projects.
Austin of YoMamasTech dragged a photo of his handwritten grocery list into AI, which read the handwriting and built the cart in Instacart at Aldi: ground beef, butter, non-fat plain Greek yogurt and five more items, subtotal $40.33, with checkout left to him in the Instacart app. He then pasted a chili recipe URL and the AI added 21 more ingredients (brown sugar, beef broth, kidney beans among them) to reach $70.72, deliberately skipping the recipe's 2 lbs of ground beef because the handwritten list already covered it.
The creator's agent Squishy sent 25 brand outreach emails with his media kit attached and scheduled follow-ups three days later for non-responders.
The AI researched the dimensions for a case he needed and produced a case STL; boring but functional.
The AI built him a small app that works out his net worth from his holdings every day. It refreshes on its own each day and sends him an alert when a market move is big enough to change the picture.
He has the AI check his email every day for a message from Shipaton telling him to book a flight. He is still waiting for that email to land.
Reverse engineered his supermarket API and made a custom MCP to automate grocery shopping; now fills his cart through AI.
The AI hacked a headless runner for a 30 year old game and ran parallel instances in the background to playtest it.
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.