Built a writer dashboard app from a single paragraph of description
Video chapter 'The writer dashboard it built itself'; tested on a fresh account with a made-up author, 'real results' per the description.
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Plan my family's meals around our allergies and build the Instacart list
TheCleaningChannel's the AI 'Foodie' plans meals around her family's favorite foods and allergies and builds the grocery list in Instacart. The order is left ready for checkout with pickup or delivery options; nothing was purchased in the video.
Set up my recurring Instagram posting schedule
A marketing agency reviewer gave the AI a week of real client-style work, including setting up a recurring Instagram posting schedule. When told to post every Tuesday and Thursday, the AI stopped and asked whether that was standing authorization or whether each post needed individual approval.
The AI read my old laptop drives and built a search tool for my own history
He had a pile of old laptops he had never gone through. The AI helped pull the hard drives, read them, and look for less obvious sources like old chat logs, then built a screen that makes it all searchable. He found personal history he had forgotten about.
Hitachi Agents Verify Field Work Photos Across 200 Use Cases
Hitachi built AI agents for more than 200 use cases in its global power and utilities business, including verifying photos of every tool and wire before and after a job. Frontline worker productivity rose 400 percent and safety improved.
I talked to GPT Astra and it modeled and 3D printed a weed holder
He used GPT-6 Astra to model a small weed holder and 3D print it. Talking to the computer and getting a real object back felt to him like a Star Trek replicator.
Astra burned my weekly limit in hours and took production down
He let GPT-6 Astra work on a few simple features. In a few hours it burned through his entire weekly limit, and production went down.
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An agent cleaned his laptop after a malware attack and removed every trace
After a fake Cloudflare page tricked him into infecting his own laptop, a man first tried AI, which refused the job. He then ran an agent on DeepSeek v4 Flash through opencode, and it did the full reverse engineering and forensics and deleted every trace of the malware.
Booked Mumbai flights and accommodation: compared options, shortlisted the best, and only
After nearly 20 days using AI (he says he no longer opens other AI apps), the author describes it as a practical replacement for a personal concierge: it compared flight and accommodation options for Mumbai, shortlisted the best choices, and only requested approval where needed.
I cannot code, but I shipped a working game patch in 30 minutes
He is not a programmer, but he used AI to trace a bug through localization files, tech scripts and the game's internal category system. The AI hotfixed a deprecated modifier key in his Clausewitz engine mod, and he shipped a working patch in 30 minutes.
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