do one's bidding

Tiny doors lined the walls, each marked with a symbol and a name, entrances to offices of spirits ready for offerings to do one's bidding.

In some ways, Musk’s view of the future borrows from the sci-fi imaginings of the 1950s: humanoid robots that do one’s bidding, colonies on Mars and high-speed transportation via underground pneumatic tubes.

It is easy to believe one’s body at 26 will always do one’s bidding.

Buried in that argument is an oddly touching one about the nature of literature: “The writer must see the language not as a transparent medium for self-expression or the representation of reality, but as a medium one must struggle with to make it do one’s bidding.”

At the center of the conflict is the part of a computer that is most visible to the user: the words and pictures that appear on the screen and the commands by which the machine can be made to do one's bidding.