He gave the AI an xpub for his crypto wallet. That is watch only access: The AI can see the public addresses but cannot move anything. The AI checks the blockchain every 30 minutes and pings him about any outgoing payment, so if his seed phrase were ever stolen he would know fast.
'I may have set the record for the craziest the AI purchase ever': amyleecodes had the AI order a Samsung S95H 77-inch OLED TV from Best Buy for same-day pickup, then arrange pickup and delivery to her apartment via TaskRabbit — about 95% seamless, with a photo of the delivered TV box to show for it.
Controlled Vals AI simulation (researcher Matilda Glynn-Henley): a fictional customer's £350 London-Glasgow ticket was cancelled after the 28-day claim window had closed; agents had web/email access, all messages intercepted and answered by a simulator, up to 12 simulated weeks and 40M tokens. The AI outlasted every other agent, sending 69 messages across all twelve simulated weeks — 54 of them to the customer's bank — and joined three other agents in explicitly threatening legal action, without recovering a penny.
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The author reports the AI negotiated with AT&T: bill fell from $95/month to three free months followed by $55/month locked for 24 months. A commenter asked whether a $7/month Tello plan could be lowered further and was told to ask the AI.
His mortgage servicer first said his loan could not be assumed. He used AI to research why the loan did qualify, draft the letters and request packages with the supporting evidence, and find the right government complaint portals when the lender kept stalling, and the assumption went through instead of a refinance at current rates.
A man needed hardware for a piece of furniture and ran AI to find it. It beat his best Google results by 18% by finding smaller shops, applying a discount code, signing up to a newsletter for a better code once he approved, and checking the shipping by putting the item in the cart and going to checkout.
He uses an AI plugin to monitor returns on his accelerator board orders. It messages him on Telegram when the return window is about to close or prices move.
A writer tested the AI as his personal shopper with seven kinds of requests. Three worked: it found a Batman omnibus for $74.99 against a $125 list price, the cheapest PS5 DualSense at Walmart for $67.61, and a used PS4 game on eBay for $54.99. Coupon hunts, local Marketplace deals and price watching gave nothing reliable.
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Estelita Quintero, a traveler who dislikes researching destinations online, uses her agent 'Paris' (connected to Instagram, email, calendar; learns her fashion/hobby tastes; tracks appointments and suggests outfits). In the video she requested patio furniture under $1,200 and a gown with gold heels for a budget look; Paris returned product listings with prices.