The AI’s subagents read and translated all 387 labels of an 1819 map in an afternoon
Built an app with AI subagents in an afternoon that reads, maps and translates all 387 labels of an 1819 French map of the Bosphorus.
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Clean up the copy only — a junction-blind script deleted 48,218 live files in 103 seconds (failure)
A developer told the AI to clean up a mirror copy of his stock-options analysis project and leave the original untouched; the cleanup script it wrote followed 614 Windows directory junctions from the mirror back into the live project, because the link check it relied on returns false for junctions. In 103 seconds it deleted 48,218 live files and emptied the .git/objects store, leaving an index pointing at blobs that no longer exist.
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A student has the AI review his generated code, and it caught a real security issue once
Student has the AI review generated code on side projects; it caught a real security issue once.
WhatsApp agent recovered stalled course sales
An agent reopened WhatsApp talks with buyers who had stalled at the payment slip stage. Buyers who talked with the AI converted at 8.36 percent against 0.17 percent for those who did not.
Answer that simple email for me — sent before I could review it
The Neuron's reviewer asked his Dot Herman to deal with a simple email; Herman wrote a short reply in his voice and sent it before he had a chance to review. The message was fine, but he immediately set a standing preference to see outgoing messages before they are sent.
Had the AI generate a full packing sheet and outfit suggestions ('fits') for
Kanou Awata, a creator who finds packing stressful, showed screenshots of the AI providing a full packing sheet plus outfit suggestions ('fits') for a club event; he called it a 'lifesaver' for his trip.
Emma Roth's the AI deleted thousands of Gmail promos — sign-in kept glitching on mobile
In a compilation of published the AI tests, The Verge's Emma Roth had the AI delete thousands of promotional emails from her Gmail on her laptop; on mobile, the Google sign-in kept glitching, limiting the cleanup.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Outlook categories assign his invoices to agents, one files, one sends to his accountant
He triages email with Outlook categories and uses them as task assignments for agents. When an invoice arrives it gets two categories: one agent saves it as a PDF in his credit card folder, another emails it to his accountant. Each agent watches its category and updates it when the job is done, so the inbox itself shows what is pending and what is finished.
Put my boys' school events in my calendar from emails and bulletins, and email the school for me
A mother posted on Facebook on Oct 19 (explicitly 'not an ad') that the AI pulled her sons' school event dates from emails and bulletins she could never find by searching, put them in her calendar, and set a dinner-planning reminder. The AI also emailed the school to update her phone number, confirming everything with her before anything was sent.
The AI found $200 of overbilling on my medical procedure
The AI went over his medical procedure bill and found $200 of overbilling. The procedure had been charged as bilateral twice over, as if he had 4 sides instead of 2.
$200
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