Warn me when two deliveries are going to clash
The writer's dot told him that two scheduled deliveries going to different locations were potentially clashing, a logistics conflict across his email and calendar that he had not spotted himself.
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Recover $2,000 for my disrupted flight
The AI pursued reimbursement for a disrupted flight and recovered $2,000 for the user.
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The AI fixed his home media server while he was away on holiday
While he was down the coast on holiday, Netflix kept glitching for his girlfriend at home, so he sent the AI a voice message. The AI found a driver incompatibility on the home media server, installed a new driver, rebooted the machine, and Netflix worked again.
A software company ported 65 open-source projects with AI and finished them
Akka ported 65 OSS projects with AI, finished ports.
Dental practice booked $241,000 of treatment patients had left unscheduled
A 14 person dental practice on Daniel Island had $612,000 of diagnosed treatment that patients had never booked, and the staff's own AIs (six the AI, four the AI, two the AI) now read each day's patient notes every evening, offer open slots to the longest waiting patients and book on a yes. Of the $612,000, $188,000 of work is done and $241,000 more is booked, and same month bookings rose from 38 percent to 71 percent.
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Rosey keeps the family calendar and reads card balances for the budget
Rosey adds calendar events and reads credit card balances for budgeting.
The AI flagged my contractor's expired license while drafting my email
He used AI to draft a first email inquiry to a contractor. The AI pointed out that the contractor's DC license expired in 2025, a check he says he would not have thought to make.
Work every support case I used to let go
A shopper who never used to bother chasing refunds now hands the AI every bad experience - crappy Instacart produce, a heat-press controller reading the wrong temperature - and the AI opens the case, tracks it, and responds to support until it is resolved.
The AI checks job sites for me every morning against my resume
He fed the AI two copies of his resume, some parameters, and connections to more job sites than he has the energy to check. Every morning the AI checks them all and reports new postings, how well they fit his resume, and any gaps.
Scanned hundreds of her saved Instagram posts and turned Sardinia saves into
Type-B traveler Chelsea used her AI 'Sir Wiggles' (penguin avatar) to scan hundreds of saved Instagram posts, extract everything saved from Sardinia, and generate an itinerary — converting scattered saved content into a trip plan for the Sardinia leg of a month-long Italy trip.
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