Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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Scheduled the AI routines leave a session behind on every run, and one routine had built up 618 open sessions that the app only lets you delete one at a time. A cleanup skill plans the job, keeping the newest sessions and any where the owner typed a reply, then has the AI delete through the app’s own session tool, 25 per call, each batch behind an approval card.
After three months with Home Assistant OpenCode and the free Big Pickle agent, a homeowner says he has written no YAML at all. He asks in plain words and it builds his dashboards and automations, like a goodnight routine that turns off downstairs lights, locks the front door and sets the thermostat, and it found the old guest mode condition that was blocking one automation.
A man who self hosts an XMPP chat server had audio and video calls that worked only sometimes. He gave an agent access to his phone over ADB and to the server logs, and within 30 minutes the problem was clear: a setting for STUN and TURN discovery had been missed in an earlier move, so clients behind home routers could not connect. The fix was deployed.
LeAura Luciano messaged her agent 'mini me' while traveling, asking for a workout plan fitting her travel schedule and available equipment. The AI produced Day 1 Upper / Day 2 Lower sessions with specific exercises (goblet squats, dumbbell RDLs, cable woodchoppers, incline treadmill walking), which she performed in the hotel gym.
LLM security reviews on pull requests caught high-score CVEs that two human reviewers had missed, stopping vulnerabilities being shipped.
Martin Cox set up Shopify's shop.md in an AI app and told it the running shoe model he normally wears. The AI found the exact pair in his size on sale from the brand, built the cart and checked out with Shop Pay, all inside the chat.
SPLIT 1 of 1 taken: Fable wrote a Python program that solved a hard board routing problem for his hardware product (firmware diagnosis episode in same comment skipped, analysis only).
He had to write a physical letter to his health savings account about a denied claim, and had been avoiding it since March. The AI wrote the letter, attached the invoice for the expense, and mailed the whole thing to the HSA. His only job was taking over for the $2.31 payment. Whether the claim was then paid is not stated in the comment.
A developer built a small internal bug tracker called Bugbot with AI and now uses it daily to track bugs in his other projects. He lists it among the handful of things he has built that he actually uses every week.
Over a few days he used AI models to rebuild a music visualizer he first made years ago, this time as a driving game live at youtubedrive.com. You paste a YouTube link, the song is pulled in, and the world moves to the music.
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.