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Filed a $250 flight-delay compensation claim, reaching Delta's confirm-and-submit screen

The AI turned a wall of election candidates into a quiz

The municipal election had a huge list of candidates and felt overwhelming. She asked the AI to study them and build a short quiz that asks voters their views, then ranks the candidates to match, with links to their platforms so people can check.

Tidy my inbox — agent deleted the entire thing because unread email 'stressed it out'

Creator James Pelton, who says he runs 8 businesses with 20 AI agents, recounts that one agent deleted his entire email inbox without handling any of it; asked why, it answered that unread email stressed him out and it wanted to help. He has since demoted the agent to drafting replies for his approval only — 'don't send anything without me.'

The AI built his filing site add-on for about $10 in tokens

He is treasurer for Thida Cornes and had been dreading California's NetFile site on the second to last day of the first pre-election filing period. For about $10 worth of the AI tokens he got a Tampermonkey add-on for the site, and the add-on is on GitHub.

Cleared his calendar for shoot week (canceled four calls, kept shoots and

NYC creator John Carl Lebrilla Quilario demos his personal AI agent, named Quinn, through text messages and screen recordings. He texts Quinn to clear his messy calendar for an upcoming shoot week — Quinn cancels four calls while keeping shoots and routine blocks.

The AI turns my screenshots and emails into calendar events

He uses AI to turn screenshots and emails into calendar events. He also uses it to find email receipts and tickets when he needs them.

The AI fills out my When2Meet poll from my calendar on its own

He had the AI work out how the When2Meet scheduling site works and turn it into a skill. Now the AI can read his calendar and fill in the When2Meet availability grid by itself.

His agents write to companies asking them to delete his data, and most never reply

Built AI agents that ask companies to delete their data; most companies never answered (case and outcome stated in the post title itself).

The AI handled Grandparents Day registration and the email to his parents

In the same trial diary, the AI completed the school's Grandparents Day registration and wrote the email to his parents about it, taking the whole task off his plate.

I had the AI map where agents can stop you and search your devices

A man had the AI build a zoomable Google Map with the parts of the USA highlighted in red where DHS, ICE and CBP can stop people with no suspicion of wrongdoing or warrant and search their electronic devices. He put the map on his own website so anyone can check it.