Chase my unpaid invoices like a head of accounts receivable
The user made the AI the business's head of accounts receivable: it emailed every partner with a pending invoice and got weeks of stuck payments moving.
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An uninstall script a model wrote deleted a real home folder
Composer 2.5 created an uninstall.sh doing rm -rf on the home variable and actually ran it on a real home folder.
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Rosey plans the family's meals and does the big-shop order from the family chat
AI agent Rosey in a family iMessage chat does meal planning and Walmart grocery shopping via BrowserMCP.
My agent negotiated my AT&T bill down $50 a month
Answering a what are you using it for thread, he lists what the AI does for him and puts this first: it just negotiated his AT&T bill down $50 a month. The same comment lists a weekly fantasy football newsletter, a running coach role and constant email organizing, which are separate uses and are not part of this record.
$50a month
Keep my recipe library, plan 15 family meals a week, and hand off the Instacart list
After years of spreadsheets and a vibe-coded app, a parent built an AI system (reported on X, via WhatAgentsCanDo, Oct 7) that maintains the family recipe library in Markdown, prints a weekly plan of about 15 meals, and produces a section-grouped shopping list. The list is pasted into AI to fill Instacart, with checkout still human; the bot template is shared for reuse.
Find my unclaimed money and file the NY claim start to finish: $2,202
Spencer Hakimian had the AI search for money owed to him and file the claim start to finish. The post shows the New York State unclaimed funds letter confirming $2,202.00.
$2,202one time
A scripted edit bounded by the next 'def' silently deleted 17 test functions (partial)
During a long pull-request review session, the AI wrote a Python script to replace one function in a large test file, bounding the replacement at the next top-level 'def' instead of the function's real end. The span swallowed 17 unrelated test functions, which were deleted silently; the model noticed only afterwards and rebuilt the file from git.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Built a 'Japan in Bloom' Mar 27–Apr 7 2027 itinerary (Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka)
Creator Eric Siu had the AI build a 'Japan in Bloom' itinerary for March 27–April 7, 2027 covering Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka, generated from his saved Instagram posts for cherry-blossom season.
An LLM built the spec-driven harness his whole workflow now runs on
An LLM created his spec-driven development harness, iterated until it worked as wanted; it is now used with the spec as the source for code changes.
The AI ran a protein design pipeline on his home GPU for 24 hours, 100 trajectories
The AI ran a protein-design pipeline at home on a 5090, chose similar tooling, and generated about 100 trajectories running 24 hours.
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