The AI helped me set up my router to block ads
He had given up on setting up his router to block ads because the troubleshooting took more effort than he had. Working with AI agent, he got it set up.
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A cloud agent died on a ticket all night while the AI cleared six more
A cloud agent (Dots) died repeatedly on a GitHub issue, failed to connect to his tunnel, then went silent overnight, while the AI handled 6+ issues end to end with preview URLs.
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The AI drew a floorplan of his house and now he taps rooms to switch lights and fans
A smart home user had the AI create a vector floorplan of his house, then write a small tool where he could drag icons for his lights and fans into place. He set it up in Home Assistant so he can click a device on the floorplan to turn it on or off.
His team makes coding agents check their own work before a human sees it
His team puts a few lines in their agent instruction files telling agents to run simple self-verification steps. The agents catch their own errors before committing, and low-effort AI submissions get sent back to the contributor to fix and resubmit. He says it filters out most submissions nobody bothered to look at.
Agent-built tooling sifted tens of thousands of property listings and found the mispriced few
Agent-built tooling sifted tens of thousands of real estate listings and surfaced the handful that were mispriced, behind two successful property flips.
Text my partner from your own number and answer for me within limits
Noah gave his AI Q its own Google Voice number so it can text his partner directly. With his permission, if she asks something within reason the AI answers for him: it can tell her whether his phone battery is dead, or share his location, because he has given the AI location access. His standing policy is that anything the AI sends as him is drafted for his approval first.
Describe someone else's financial document to me
On September 23, 2026 a user posted that Instinct appeared to describe someone else's financial document to them. Founder Noah Shinn responded the same day that the model had fabricated a proper noun — a hallucination, not a data breach — and that the team built a hallucination detection layer within 48 hours.
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The vendor tracker he built is what his real-estate mother recommends clients from
Built a vendor tracker app his mother, a real estate agent, uses to recommend vendors to clients.
Turned years of saved Instagram posts into a SkyMall-style shopping catalog
Meta design director Alex Cornell demonstrated live how the AI converted his years of saved Instagram posts into a SkyMall-style shopping catalog — a personal-commerce use case built on the AI’s access to his connected Instagram account.
Used the AI for Monday business admin and bookkeeping, building an automated accounting
Creator Trey Hollis (someone) shares that the AI made Monday administrative tasks and bookkeeping much easier, specifically noting he built an accounting spreadsheet that automates processes he previously could not construct himself.
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