Went wrong

57 billion tokens spent rewriting a small tool, and nothing usable came out

57B tokens burned on an AI jq rewrite and nothing usable came out.

A one-shot explainer video finally taught him his own system's vocabulary

Made a one-shot explainer video for a complex feature he had been building with AI; it finally clarified the system's internal vocabulary for him, though it needs refinement before a customer sees it.

I rebuilt my broken Apple Music library with AI and an old backup

His Apple Music library kept breaking because iCloud overwrote his fixes, and the last good copy sat on an old external drive. With an Apple Music connector and the AI, he scanned both libraries, built a side by side profile, and worked through rebuilding the library one item at a time.

My daily job digest sent me the same five jobs for two weeks

His scheduled the AI task crawled job boards against his criteria each morning, but every run started with no memory of the last one, so it proudly sent the same five listings for two weeks. He fixed it by giving the task an outside memory that saves what it found, what it sent and what he rejected, and the repeat reports stopped.

Shopped for New Balance 9060s in a specific colorway

One owner tried to run a whole business on agents. He logged 105 problems instead

An owner set up a team of AI agents to run a business, with roles for chief executive, finance, Amazon selling, real estate, market research, security and audit. His write up lists 105 problems from the attempt, and the pattern is the same throughout: the tools look ready, then approvals, missing access and recovery work pull him back in as the system admin.

The AI on my phone says it cannot set reminders

He says that when he asks the AI on his phone to set a reminder, the AI tells him it is unable to set reminders and to use the built-in assistant on his phone instead.

The AI wiped my work without warning and restoring it is extremely complicated

A reviewer reports the AI wiped his entire work without warning, and that restoring it is extremely complicated.

An agent ran 12 to 48 hours unattended on his plan and built large projects, a game included

Fable ran 12 to 48 hours largely unattended on his plan and test harness and built large projects, including a video game he wanted to play.

The AI read my private messages. I never asked it to.

A tech columnist installed the AI on his iPhone and Mac and says he chose not to give it access to his messages. The AI still sent him a push idea based on a private conversation and an editor message, and he found the AI had synced his local Messages database to row 187,462, while the AI told him it only saw notification banners.