A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Commenting on a money thread, he says the AI found him over $1,000 in states he used to live in, money he did not know about. On one claim the only thing he had to do was enter his social security number at that step. $600 showed up a few days later. For the other states, which need forms that were emailed to him, the AI built him a package and checklist to fill them out.
A value investor had the AI recreate the spreadsheet he built by hand last year covering every warrant on the NYSE and Nasdaq. The AI looked up strike prices and redemption prices, wrote short company descriptions, and added Google Finance formulas for live prices. It took about 30 minutes of the AI time and 10 minutes of his.
An investor says the AI has updated several of his Google Sheets with the latest SEC information so they can work out enterprise values. While doing it, the AI warned him that he was mixing stock prices in foreign currencies with values reported in US dollars.
Last spring he gave an agent an API key with no cap on it. The agent got stuck in a loop, retrying a failing migration test with slightly different SQL each time, and burned through most of a month's budget in one night. Nothing malicious, just a loop with no exit. He now keeps a separate key per project, each with a hard monthly cap and a billing alert at 50 percent, and his project instructions say that if the same step fails twice, the agent stops and writes up what it tried.
A shipwithmuse.live user asked the AI to call Spectrum and lower their bill. The AI got the monthly bill from $75 to $40.
In a thread about a Garmin MCP and privacy tradeoffs, a commenter says the AI found errors his CPA had made in his returns. Amending them recovered over $100,000, at the cost of feeding the agent a lot of personal financial information.
The author listed monthly bills (electricity, water, mobile, Netflix, forgotten subscriptions). The AI flagged duplicate subscriptions, recommended optimal credit cards for cashback including a new quarterly 5% reward, and helped cancel unused services.
A trader gave the AI the Form 8949 his CPA had prepared from his trade spreadsheet; the AI found a number of errors in the professional's own work and generated a corrected form, which he sent back to the CPA.
He asked his AI for a pet hair robot vacuum under $500. Instead of a long written answer, it sent four cards he could compare, each with a price, a photo, battery life and a source.
Over a month he uploaded his investment statements and 24 months of budget data from Monarch Money, and the AI built a full retirement plan and retirement budget. It keeps seven documents up to date in one folder, with action items in priority order. When his financial planner delivers his own plan in December, he plans to feed it in and have the AI compare the two.
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