Ask HN: Interesting AI Pivots

I once contributed to daytona and recently turned up at their website only to find out it is now "infrastructure for running ai-generated code. They used to be a tool that was used to construct development environment on remote machines. I found this incredible. I suppose there'd be stories out there about interesting ai pivots I'm yet to hear about.

What surprising pivots have you encountered? What were they doing and why was the pivot surprising?