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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.

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

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.

File our Australian visitor visas and catch a placeholder birthdate

The AI prepared and filed Australian visitor visas for a couple travelling to Brisbane, and caught a placeholder birthdate in the details before submission, confirming the correction over WhatsApp.

I updated a client's email triage so it forwards mail to her customers

He updated an old email triage workflow for a client this weekend. Jev now runs alongside GPT-4o mini, which still controls which emails get forwarded to her customers.

I used AI to build and file my own court complaint

She says she used AI, cross-checked by two more AIs, to put together a legal complaint and file it herself, without a lawyer.

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.

The AI does his boring paperwork in his own logged in browser: reserve duty refunds, national insurance, flight check-ins

Outside code, his biggest win is boring paperwork. The AI filed his reserve duty refunds, sorted out his national insurance payments and did his flight check-ins, working in his own logged in Chrome. Each job is about ten minutes of work, which is exactly why he kept putting them off. He gives each area of his life its own folder with a CLAUDE.md and a notes file, so the money stuff does not mix with the rest.

Sent proactive reminders for important meetings and items

Ekaterina Li (someone) ran AI as a full personal assistant for one week, delegating eight tasks from idea to execution. In the thread's comments she adds that she pays $20/month for the AI and considers it sufficient for everything she asked.

Had the AI navigate a labyrinthine childcare-booking platform: after manual login it booked

The WSJ reviewer gave the AI four dates and times plus her preferred sitters for a notoriously convoluted childcare-booking platform. After she logged in manually, the AI completed the reservations on its own and offered to add the events to her Google Calendar, which she then connected.