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The AI found a serious security hole in a state legislature website while archiving it

She was using AI to archive legislative material when it flagged a serious vulnerability in a state legislature's website. She had to stop and report it.

Scheduled a daily AI-news podcast delivered via RSS feed to a podcast

The AI cut an unread Gmail backlog from 65,000+ to 700

The author reports the AI reduced his unread Gmail from more than 65,000 messages to about 700.

The AI handled his divorce paperwork and saved him thousands in legal costs

Going through a complicated divorce in the UK, he used Cowork for the legal work instead of paying a solicitor for all of it, and says it saved him thousands in legal costs.

He is juggling several legal cases of his own, and the AI transcribes the audio, organizes the evidence and writes the summaries his lawyers get

He is juggling several legal cases of his own, and his lawyers do not have time to answer him every day. The AI transcribes audio, organizes his evidence and writes the case summaries he hands to them. He calls it the best tool he has ever had, and says stopping would mean going back to doing all of that alone.

Ask the AI, and the event lands on my calendar

He runs AI on his homelab. He can ask the AI to throw an event on his calendar and it appears, and the setup can also send events to his primary calendar by email.

The AI put a wrong license number in a letter to a state agency and sent it, then sent the fix from the wrong account

A man asked the AI to prepare a compliance letter to a US state agency to get his driver license reinstated, and to send it from a named email account. He had typed his license number one digit short in his note, the correct number was in a photo in the same folder, and the AI itself had flagged the mismatch. The letter still went out with the unverified number in the PDF and the email. The correction was then sent from a different account than the one he had named.

The AI fixed the design problems on my brother's NGO website

He helped his brother with the website of Ichtus Vlaanderen, an NGO he used to work for. Using the AI through the WordPress.com MCP connector, he fixed design problems like a messy photo section and buttons that were too big.

Scan my inbox unprompted and rescue a message trapped in spam

Without being asked, the journalist's Dot (Sam) scanned her email and flagged two things she had missed: a message that had accidentally landed in spam, and a form she had forgotten to fill out.

Call my home insurer, get a human on the line, then ring me

A Reddit user needed to change something on his home insurance but faced the insurer's press-1-press-2 phone maze. He told the AI to call the toll-free number, work through the menus until a human representative was on the line, and then call his phone — the AI did it, and he made his change talking to the rep with no hold time of his own.