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The AI is his gym trainer: he reports his sets and reps as he does them, and later that day Astra logs them into an Excel tracker, then uses the updated tracker to refresh an HTML app it built that shows his progress over time and his missed workouts.
A Gizmodo author tried travel booking — a flagship the AI use case. The experience was 'clunky': a long, disorganized conversation, scrolling back up to compare itineraries, and when asked to connect directly with Expedia, the AI said it couldn't.
He wanted one place where people can find all the apps he is working on. The AI built the site, beardfm.app, in about 15 minutes.
He connected the AI to FreshBooks and ConnectWise through a connector he built, so his work time gets logged as he goes. Month end invoicing went from most of a day of typing to reviewing drafts.
The reviewer asks the AI for the current location of a flight, the progress of a rideshare trip shared through an HTTP link, and an analysis of Boston weather-radar precipitation, getting visual information back as spoken answers.
He says he has zero knowledge of coding. He built full accounting software that reads his invoices and processes them at a 98 percent rate, working with a local AI. It replaced the package that cost him $1,000 every year. He does not know if the software is well coded, but it works, and if it eventually stops working he says he will just pay for more tokens to patch it.
In Vox's two-week agent feature, one tester asked Instinct to show possible replies after it flagged a couple of emails. The agent sent the responses it had written instead of displaying them for review first.
He had the AI do bookkeeping for his taxes, checking invoices from the past 6 months. A job that used to take him 5 hours took 1 hour, though he still had to check the results himself.
Weekly Chezmoi drift report across all his machines, including what he changed, set up in 30 minutes.
After Amazon blocked automated login windows, a user built a small HTTP API on a machine they control. The AI SSHes in and calls http://127.0.0.1:8792 to search Amazon and add items to a personal or Prime Business cart (no checkout).
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.