Family

The AI watched swimming lessons and booked one for his son the moment a spot opened

The AI monitored swimming lesson availability and automatically booked a suitable lesson for his son when one opened up.

Check in with my dad weekly about selling his business and report back to me

Simmons asked László to check in with his father once a week about the business sale and report back, judging his father more likely to talk it through with an AI checking in than to raise it with his son. The article records the arrangement being set up, not its later results.

Drafted a reply to a PR rep about an embargoed product, co-edited

After reading the AI’s summary of an embargoed PR pitch, Ulanoff had it draft a reply. The first draft overpromised a meeting, so he had it strip the meeting references to just agreeing to the embargo and getting images and details.

Text my partner from your own number and answer for me within limits

Noah gave his AI Q its own Google Voice number so it can text his partner directly. With his permission, if she asks something within reason the AI answers for him: it can tell her whether his phone battery is dead, or share his location, because he has given the AI location access. His standing policy is that anything the AI sends as him is drafted for his approval first.

Showed an email approval prompt (Allow / Always allow for this recipient

When Jack asked the AI to send an email, it stopped with an approval prompt showing exactly what it would send: Allow, Always allow for this recipient, or Deny. She denied; nothing was sent.

Rebuild my wedding website with AI after the platform locked me out

Her wedding site on Joy worked until the platform disabled SSO and she could no longer edit it - mid-planning. She rebuilt the whole thing herself with AI from her own requirements list: password-protected bridal-party and admin sections and direct RSVPs, replacing the platform entirely.

Drafted follow-up emails to a landscaping company (reviewer found the tone overly

He asked an agent what beeped in his house, and it found the smoke alarm

Someone in the house heard a beep a little before 12:13 AM. He handed the question to an agent with access to the camera recorder. It came back with the sound, the source and a short list of reasons: a smoke alarm that sounded once, at 3417 Hz for 0.87 seconds, about two metres from one camera. It was not a fire, not carbon monoxide and not a dying battery.

The AI read a scanned storybook and flagged the words his child is not ready for

Scanned a storybook with his phone and had the AI OCR it and compare it against the list of words and sound patterns his kid knows, flagging the irregular words and new sounds to cover before reading.

The AI changed a word game's rules for his wife in about 10 minutes

The AI modified a NYT-style web game in about 10 minutes to change the rules for his wife; she was delighted.