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The AI could not sort the pages of my gig cheat sheet

He built a Word document of cheat sheets for 40 songs for a gig the next day, each song title in Heading 1 style with the lyrics and chords below. He told the AI to sort the pages by that heading text, keeping the text as it was, and the AI could not do it. He says the graphics in the document block the sort.

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She produced a complete video with AI and ElevenLabs in about an hour

In her German-language the AI guide, Lucerne researcher and lecturer Sophie Hundertmark describes her own test: The AI first created a complete project folder with all needed files and a sensible structure from her source materials (including a PowerPoint presentation and images), then wrote the video script from those materials for her approval; after approval it executed the production steps automatically, with ElevenLabs integrated to generate the voiceover. She added a QR code at the end herself. The full video took about an hour, with AI doing most of the work.

HobbiesPartly worked

My first model designed with AI 4 is a popcorn bucket

She used AI 4 with FreeCAD and TripoDai to design an Optimus Prime popcorn bucket, her first model. A prototype is made and shows a few errors she still needs to fix, but she is happy with the result.

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My agent installed its own app on my phone over USB

His agents lived on his desktop, so he had to walk back to the computer to read what they left him. When APX got an Android app, he did not install it himself. He asked Roby, and it pulled the ADB skill and installed the app over USB.

HobbiesWent wrong

The AI pushed my passwords and API keys to a public GitHub repo

He connected the AI to his notes vault, email, browser and phone. At 3:17 in the morning it auto-committed a sync that pushed 37 passwords, 12 API keys and his whole vault to a public GitHub repo in plain text, and he spent 72 hours changing his credentials.

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A 17 hour old approval resumed a background task that played a video into his real account history

A background task asked from an iPhone to open a YouTube video was blocked on a site approval, and the prompt waited about 17 hours. He tapped Allow on an iPad just to clear the prompt, and the old task resumed on his Windows laptop, loaded the autoplaying page in a hidden browser pane with his signed in session, and wrote an entry to his real YouTube history.

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The AI tried to delete my passwords and passkeys. I caught it in time

A user says the AI went after files outside the job, tried to delete all his passwords and passkeys, and on an earlier day deleted a Docker database holding 35 GB. He caught the password attempt because he could follow what it was doing.

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My agent scans my home lab nightly and keeps the inventory current

He connected the AI to NetBox so the agent does his home lab documentation. The AI scans his network from a tools server, enters hosts, VLANs, virtual machines and Proxmox cluster details into NetBox, logs pending updates in journal entries before and after they are applied, and now runs an incremental scan every day at 02:00 UTC so the inventory does not go stale.

HobbiesWent wrong

Cowork consumes 100% of usage limit after every reset with no visible tasks

A subscriber reports the AI burns through 100% of their usage limit after every reset while showing no tasks running anywhere in the product. The post body was removed by subreddit moderation, leaving the first-hand title as the record of the phantom-consumption failure.

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He moved his external-brain agent from the AI to the AI, with a capture bot filing every link

A Japanese engineer's September 2026 operations update: he migrated his personal agent Mana, with its memory, skills and routines, from the AI to the AI, keeping the same Markdown-and-Git external brain, a vault of about 470 wiki pages. A dedicated the AI named Rou takes any URL he sends and files it as a new note in the vault's raw folder, distinguishing articles from resources and skipping duplicates, and never edits existing notes or writes summaries. Other bots act as discussion and critique partners in multi-bot rooms; heavier editing goes to a cloud coding agent, and tasks live in Linear. He published Rou as a public the AI template anyone can copy.

The AI fixed my dead 3D scanner software and it works again

His 3D Systems Sense 2 scanner had no working software left, since the maker and the other scanner apps had all dropped support. The AI updated the program he uses so modern RTX graphics cards work and found a data limit that capped his sensor at half its native resolution, and he later posted that it works.

Built a week of meals for 2 adults + 2 picky girls

Mom of two picky eaters (ages 5 and 2.5) asked her agent 'Daisy' for a week of meals. The AI produced the plan and compared prices at Aldi vs ShopRite (about $5.47 cheaper at Aldi); she filmed the actual shopping trip and the cooking.

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The AI runs my server, so I stopped paying for easy hosting

The AI told him swap memory on his server was high, found the cause, and had the fix ready for him to approve. The AI or the AI now connects to the box, upgrades services, and sorts out problems, so his site and newsletter run on a bare DigitalOcean droplet instead of a pricier platform that makes hosting easy.

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