Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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The reviewer asks the AI to search his Amazon order history together with product descriptions to identify which charger he previously bought that has both AC outlets and retractable cables.
Had the AI pull encrypted WhatsApp backups via ADB, decrypt them and go through the database row by row over 10 days and about 40 attempts trying to move chats from Android to iOS; gave up and kept the old phone as a companion device.
Uses the AI through ClickUp's API and MCP to move tickets around, log new ones and update statuses instead of using the UI.
In the same Vergecast clip, a host describes the AI connected to his Google Calendar: seeing a media dinner party in his evening, the AI advised taking a city bike instead of the subway because it would be faster, and pinged him at 9:20 to leave in time for a 9:30 arrival. The hosts frame it as the AI being proactive to the point of feeling directive.
The developer building the signup platform for his wife's education seminars stopped answering emails, and they had no access to the code. With no money to hire another developer, he rebuilt the platform from scratch with AI as his coding partner, and it is running now.
A user lists jobs he handed to the AI, including a delayed flight: he says the AI successfully processed his compensation claim with Delta Air Lines and the money came through. Other jobs in the same post (a Bell Mobility bill dispute, a crypto trading bot) he reports doing himself or failing, and are not recorded here.
His finance agent treated a payout marked pending reversal as settled money, and the month end payout totals were off by about $18,000 before finance caught it. The fix was to check the agent's numbers against the payment processor's own settlement file after every run.
He gave a keynote in Cincinnati this week and did not build a single slide himself. He told his AI assistant the talk, it made the deck, and he fixed it by text.
After his mother died he inherited a box of family film negatives and bought a Plustek 8200i scanner, then found its new chip had no Linux support. The AI helped him capture the Windows driver traffic and build a working SANE driver. Within a few hours he had his first good scan, and days later a near perfect driver with infrared dust removal.
A defence lawyer built two free the AI for her own practice. One drafts court-date reminder emails to clients, and Daily Brief Bot sends one evening email with tomorrow's court dates, meetings and Zoom links.
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.