The AI audited and corrected a family-tree project
The AI audited the author's family-tree project against documents, removed errors, added newly found documents, and added a generational link the author had missed.
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Read every job advert, tailor my CV and apply with my approval
A builder created JobAgent in an AI app: over a 13-week UK test it read and scored 8,585 job adverts against one tester's career record, wrote 481 tailored CVs and submitted 258 human-approved applications. The run produced 8 interviews and 3 offers — roughly one interview per 32 applications.
Created and published a blog of real-world Siri AI use cases, successes,
A user had the AI create and publish the 'Siri AI Unlocked' website, a blog dedicated to real-world Siri AI use cases, successes, and failures.
Build a native job-tracker app with AI writing all the code
Andy Bennett built Helm, a Mac, iPhone and iPad job tracker with CV tailoring, with AI writing all of the code and most of the design across 641 commits and 21 plans. The first working Mac version landed in about eight hours of commits on September 11; both apps are now in TestFlight beta.
Showed an email approval prompt (Allow / Always allow for this recipient
When Jack asked the AI to send an email, it stopped with an approval prompt showing exactly what it would send: Allow, Always allow for this recipient, or Deny. She denied; nothing was sent.
Meeting transcripts become Slack recaps, and the AI offers to take his tasks on
His meetings are recorded with Fireflies. On a set routine, the AI takes each transcript and posts a Slack recap to everyone who was in the meeting, with the action items and who owns each one. A second routine scans his meetings for tasks that fall to him and works out which ones the AI could do instead, then offers to run them in separate sessions.
An LLM maintains his research document and the pipeline that rebuilds its figures
An LLM maintains his org and LaTeX work document, an external library and CLI, and a Makefile and Snakemake pipeline that regenerates content and figures and puts numerical results into LaTeX macros.
Ran a 48-hour creative-business project: organized ideas, planned content, created working systems,
The Life Force Design owner named her AI 'Flow' and gave it a real creative-business job (Etsy shop LifeforceDesign): over ~48 hours it helped organize ideas, plan content, create working systems, review decisions and prepare material for publication — intention to execution to review to publication.
Booked a complicated multi-leg, multi-airline open-jaw itinerary unavailable on Google Flights or
An 8-second looping pixel animation accompanies the post: the author used AI to book a multi-leg, multi-airline open-jaw flight itinerary that neither Google Flights nor airline websites surfaced. It was ticketed through Duffel's API and came out cheaper.
Make my Canon photo printer work with Linux
A commenter in a hardware reverse-engineering thread says he had the AI develop a working Bluetooth CUPS driver for his Canon Zoemini 2 mini photo printer. Canon only supports the printer from smartphones, so the driver made it usable from his Linux machine.
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