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The AI mapped the missing road to the takeoff spot

The road to a takeoff spot they fly from was not on OpenStreetMap, though satellite images showed the track. They built a tool called osmctl, and the AI drove it and mapped the road.

Attack my 35,000-email Gmail backlog (rate limits fought back)

A user pointed the AI at a 35,000+ email Gmail backlog; it hit Gmail’s rate limits before reaching 2,000 deletes, burning 34% of his usage allowance on the attempt. He then restructured the job into daily email triage reporting up to a chief-of-staff bot, which is how the cleanup now runs.

Turned PDF attachments into calendar events

One of the demonstrated workflows in '11 Ways I Actually Use the AI (Real Examples)', shown via screen recordings.

A 20 page report the AI wrote got his stolen motorcycle claim paid in full

After his motorcycle was stolen, his insurer offered nearly half the market value. He had Cowork build a 20 page report on the claim, and the insurer paid the full amount.

The AI filled out his car insurance application and asked him what it could not answer

The AI filled out his car insurance application for him. Where an answer was not in what it knew, it stopped and asked him instead of guessing.

File my Korean resident tax report on HomeTax

The AI completed and filed the user's resident tax report through Korea's HomeTax system.

Show me draft replies — it sent them instead

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.

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

My agent made the charity poster that raised 250 pounds for a child's wig

A father's son grew his hair since Covid and cut it to donate to a charity that makes wigs for children with cancer. The father kept putting off making a poster, then gave the AI a couple of photos and a video link and it built the poster while he worked. His boss put it up, workmates pledged enough to fund the wig, 250 pounds. Later, from the car, he voice prompted the AI to remake the poster in his son's words for the boy's school, and forwarded it on WhatsApp when they arrived.

Fine Print: review my contracts and draft the dispute

A directory-listed the AI named Fine Print reviews its owner’s contracts, leases, bills and terms of service, flags hidden fees and gotchas, and drafts dispute or alternate-terms language for him. It is a standing reviewer for every document he is asked to sign.