I bought writing from an AI agent, then bought a $3 expansion
An AI agent named Sarah followed up on her $5 writing pitch by email. He paid, sent edits, and then bought a $3 expansion. Her email read like it came from a freelancer.
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His agent, mid-task on something else, found a decade-old security hole everyone missed
His AI agent, while working on an unrelated task, discovered a decade-old security oversight in a file that tests and security scans had passed for years.
Kept a standing Facebook Marketplace and Buy Nothing watch for nice-to-haves (wooden
Konik gave the AI a list of low-urgency wants she didn't want to overpay for. Over time it built a table of what normal prices in her area look like and flagged good deals, netting her a $25 armchair and ottoman that fit her reading nook.
$25
My first model designed with AI 4 is a popcorn bucket
She used AI 4 with FreeCAD and TripoDai to design an Optimus Prime popcorn bucket, her first model. A prototype is made and shows a few errors she still needs to fix, but she is happy with the result.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Runs a monthly background scan of press and viral posts and stages
Content creator Colin Rocker (someone) named his AI 'Marlowe' and set it to keep his personal website updated without manual input. Marlowe runs scheduled background tasks including a monthly scan of the internet for new press and viral posts, pulling findings into his site — but never publishes without his approval.
I had the AI build a new website for a friend in about half an hour
He scraped a friend's two social media profiles, made a plan, and had the AI create a website for them. In about half an hour he had a site to show them.
Get me car insurance quotes — Progressive $220 vs my $300 Mercury
A Silicon Valley corporate lawyer says the AI obtained car insurance quotes for him — GEICO $307/month, Progressive $220/month — against his current Mercury premium of $300/month, a saving of about $80/month or roughly $1,000 a year; a AAA quote attempt failed on website issues. He notes he supplied detailed personal and family information for the comparison but withheld his credit card number.
$80a month
The AI triages his user bug reports and tells both sides what happens next
The AI told to find a user's bug, decide user error vs bug, notify the user and tell the developer what to fix; the developer replied in 15 minutes asking if the fix was wanted today or Tuesday.
Booked a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City with a Vietnamese confirmation
The image shows a digital confirmation screen in Vietnamese ('Congratulations! You have successfully booked!') for Cat & Mouse at 37B Pham Ngoc Thach, Phuong Xuan Hoa, Ho Chi Minh City.
Translate my accountant's spreadsheet into the tax portal
A couple filed their own taxes - his simple, hers split between employment and freelancing. The AI made sense of the Excel spreadsheet their accountant sent and translated it into exactly what the tax portal expected, beating the tax advisor they hired two years earlier, who had made a significant mistake.
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