An agent got back into his locked-out server through a side door and fixed it
An agent fixed his Unraid server issue, regaining access by hopping in via a syslog-ng server using a leftover SSH key when direct SSH failed.
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A man who uses three browsers daily always missed plugins in Safari. He told the AI it could get the source code of one of his favourite Chrome plugins from his Chrome install, then port it and install it in Safari. After 20 minutes and a few dollars of his plan, he had Session Buddy working in Safari.
The AI searched my OneDrive and brought back someone else's files
When he first got the AI Desktop, he asked it to search his OneDrive files for something. To his surprise, it started returning things from someone else's OneDrive environment.
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An agent skill ('PIL') that turns an Instagram saved collection into a
A builder created a skill that converts a user's Instagram saved collection into a private, searchable personal library. Every saved post is deep-read by vision AI, and everything runs on the user's own machine.
Ship an accessibility overhaul of my family arcade's chess board
The AI gave Fulton's family arcade, playfulton, an accessibility overhaul of its chess board with keyboard and screen-reader support. The work was tested locally, pushed and deployed to the live site.
The AI cleaned out my Gmail and freed up half my space
He used AI with a browser add-on in Brave to clean out his Gmail. His account now has about 50% free space.
My agent pulled 17 years of my listening history back into my own hands
A music fan had the AI pull all 17 years of his listening records from his streaming history service, so the data now lives on his own machine. A few days later he had it build a personal browser that shows what he listened to each month, drops one time plays and noise tracks, and lets him queue songs to his home speakers in one click.
The AI replaced my voice commands. It cannot remind or navigate.
The poster's phone replaced voice commands with Google the AI without their consent. Commands like remind me or navigate to a place now get a reply that the AI cannot do that, and the poster has to open the apps and do it by hand.
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Agents redesigned an interior part to print in vase mode, better than the human design
GLM and the AI redesigned an interior 3D-print part to print in vase mode; the new part is better than the human-designed part he took from the internet.
The AI turned my 44 messy Gmail filters into 16 that work better
He had added 44 Gmail filters over 5 years and they were not working well. With an AI skill that uses the Gmail MCP and a lot of email history to test against, the set was cut down to 16 filters that work better with fewer false positives. He wrote the process down as a skill afterward.
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