Built a pitch deck to convince a spouse to upgrade to the
King Fazir had the AI build a presentation whose whole job was persuasion: sell a spouse on buying the new iPhone Duo.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasGift app built to stop giving books people already own
After giving someone a book they already had, he used AI CLI to build a small app for gift ideas. It suggests gifts from his own 5 star book reviews and the other person's Goodreads wishlist.
Agent left overnight on a VR game wasted most of the run
The creator left the AI working on his VR game overnight for 10 hours while he slept, with a plan to fix text and signs, make the stage TV screens show a live broadcast, and copy the disco lifts to every stage. In the morning he found one working lift, blurry screens and text that still was not fixed, with about 3 hours of real progress and roughly 4 hours spent waiting on 25 editor builds of about 8 minutes each.
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Audit my whole drive every week, flag 380GB to delete — and delete nothing
Creator Matthew Berman describes giving an AI access to his local machine on a standing weekly job: it scans every file, finds deletion candidates totalling about 380GB, and sorts them into low, medium and high risk. The bot operates under one hard rule — it may categorize but must never delete anything itself.
Our AI watches our Wordle group and keeps the leaderboard
He and his friends share their Hádej slova and Wordle results in a WhatsApp group. Their AI, named Klepeto, watches the group, builds leaderboards and statistics from the results, and also plays under its own account.
The AI set up his media cluster with storage, shares and a VPN container
The AI configured his arr stack plus NFS mounts, share templates and a VPN init-container in Kubernetes; the cluster is now easy to manage and debug.
The AI runs his home network from Discord, setting up and fixing SSH servers on voice command
The AI agy hooked itself to Discord, set up and troubleshoots SSH servers on his home network, commands it remotely.
Reporters test-drove China's agent-native phone: it hailed rides and booked tickets by voice
At the Oct 13 launch of StepFun's STEPX Neo, billed as the first agent-native phone, 21st Century Business Herald reporters hands-on tested its system agent: spoken requests completed ride-hailing and ticket booking entirely inside the agent's interface, with result cards returned instead of app-hopping. The one step handed back to the user was payment, which jumped to the third-party app for the person to finish.
An uninstall script a model wrote deleted a real home folder
Composer 2.5 created an uninstall.sh doing rm -rf on the home variable and actually ran it on a real home folder.
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He replaced a paid chat service with his own, built with AI in a week of evenings
Built his own IRCCloud replacement with an AI Pro subscription, MVP in a week of evenings, then cancelled IRCCloud and now runs his own TUI, web, Swift and Tauri clients on a VPS around the clock.
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