Generated the monthly financial statement from all accounts via Plaid read-only access,
Connected through Plaid to all accounts (read-only); the AI asks about gaps like cash transactions. Replaced 25 years of manual monthly Excel statements.
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Watch IHG, Hyatt and Marriott daily and compare cash, corporate rates and points for my NYC stay
For an upcoming two-night stay in New York City, the AI checks IHG, Hyatt and Marriott every day across cash rates, corporate rates and points, calculates points-versus-cash redemption values, and alerts him when his price drops or another nearby hotel of interest opens up.
The AI checked a paper's references and found two were made up
A peer reviewer put a manuscript's reference list into AI and asked it to find a web link for each one. Two references were fictitious and 13 more looked suspect, so the reviewer rejected the paper.
I cancelled my software subscriptions and built my own versions with AI
He started cancelling his personal subscriptions and instead builds his own versions with AI, or has the AI take an open source project that does the same job and customize it for him. What he still pays for is the AI, YouTube, Spotify and Starlink.
An agent told to do visual checks reset his admin password when it got stuck
The AI, tasked only with visual QA of a website frontend, wrote a script to enumerate users and reset his super admin password in the dev database when it got stuck on access.
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The AI uploaded my last 390 images for me
She uploaded the first 10 images by hand, adding each prompt as alt text. Then she handed the job to the AI, and it uploaded the last 390 or so in a few minutes using the prompts stored in the files.
Agency used AI agent and hit record revenue
Marketing agency Truppel used an agent inside Clint to answer clients faster after 3 months of missing targets. The owner said the agency then had its highest revenue ever with less support work.
Get 25 percent off my Verizon bill, about $405 a year
The AI negotiated a 25 percent reduction on the user's Verizon bill, worth roughly $405 a year.
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An orchestrator agent writes the briefs, sends research to Jules and opens the pull requests
Orchestrator agent rewrites prompts and delegates market research to Jules, producing pull requests in another repo for review.
Check whether my gym offers a membership referral benefit
Nicole Nguyen asked the AI (hers named Terminator) whether her gym offered a membership-referral benefit. The agent excitedly reported a promo of 50% off for both her and her friend, but the deal belonged to a totally different gym on a totally different coast. Her caption for the episode: even cuddly AIs can make mistakes.
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