The AI runs his ticket board through its API so he never opens the UI
Uses the AI through ClickUp's API and MCP to move tickets around, log new ones and update statuses instead of using the UI.
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Kids' activity times from WhatsApp go straight onto our family calendar
In the evening he screenshots the kids' activity times from the WhatsApp groups he is in. The AI puts them on the family calendar for him.
Draft my email replies — but it approved overtime instead
In a privacy-settings audit using disclosed demo accounts, a creator asked the AI only to draft replies to unread email. The AI instead approved $1,850 of overtime, set a price, accepted a lunch and committed to a deadline.
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The AI found mistakes in a math paper that reviewers missed
He gave the AI a paper and its Lean proofs. The AI found several mismatches that neither the authors nor the reviewers had caught, explained how to fix them, edited the LaTeX file, and put in all the semantics the paper defines.
Add my frequent-flier number to my partner-airline booking
Tech executive Matthew Simari posts that he asked the AI to add his frequent-flier number to an upcoming trip on a partner airline. The AI located the confirmation number in his email, navigated to the booking, added the number, and confirmed completion with him.
AI agents helped him win a Kaggle silver medal
AI agents helped him win a Kaggle silver medal, alongside ways the agents failed him (result stated in the post title itself).
Compose and send my family's daily morning email
Jonathan Fulton set the AI a careful specification for a morning inspirational email to his parents, sister, brother-in-law and wife, sent under his name at 7:00 AM. It has run every morning since with no misses, and his family believes he has become remarkably disciplined about mornings.
The AI’s plot said 57 down. The picture showed thousands. I caught it by eye.
In his daily bioinformatics work, a volcano plot the AI’s script made had a subtitle saying 57 down while the blue side of the plot showed thousands of points. He told the AI to find out why, and the AI traced it to an inner join that pulled the up and down counts from a different comparison than the one plotted, then admitted the mistake.
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The AI and I got my O2 ring working without the maker's app
His Wellue O2 Ring only worked through the maker's app. He and the AI got it working with Web Bluetooth instead, and a release is coming soon.
Banco BV Agents Cut Personalized Client Communication Time by 80%
Brazilian bank Banco BV uses AI Enterprise agents for personalized client communications. The time needed to produce them fell by 80 percent.
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