A headless agent works his ticket queue: compares code to tickets, replies on its own
Set up headless the AI on a VM with an Azure DevOps MCP queue; it compares code to tickets and replies to comments automatically.
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Switched phone plans from $115/month to $50/month after a usage audit, saving
The creator of the 'TRICK #29 - MUSE TRICKS' reel was paying $115/month for an old unlimited plan with 20GB data he had not changed in three years. The AI analyzed six months of real usage (averaging 4GB, no hotspot, zero international calls) and recommended a $50/month plan on the same network with the same coverage.
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LLMs audit claimed maths solutions for him and have already killed 6 faulty proofs
Runs LLMs to audit the math in claimed arXiv solutions for his ranked open-problems list; audits already found six faulty proofs that had caused problems to be wrongly marked resolved.
I built a script with AI that gathers my expense invoices from Gmail
In one evening with AI he built a script that scans his Gmail for known senders and downloads invoice PDFs. If a supplier sent no PDF, it saves the email itself as a PDF, puts everything together for the office, and logs what it downloaded and sent so nothing goes twice.
His diagram library fork got a live demo, built by an LLM in his own terminal widgets
Forked go-mermaid and had an LLM add a live Mermaid and SVG demo using his terminal and WASM widgets, published online.
The AI rebuilt the warrants spreadsheet that took me hours last year in about 30 minutes
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.
A daily Sonnet routine answers his routine email and blocks time for the rest
A daily routine on Sonnet reads his email, answers the routine messages from templates, and puts the rest on his todo list. When a task needs more than an hour, the routine blocks time for it on his calendar.
A language model transcribed a whole historical correspondence volume
A researcher had a language model transcribe a digitised volume of Sophie Germain's incoming correspondence at the national library, and published the transcription. Working from it, he spotted a mathematical note written on an 1814 letter cover and is asking who wrote it.
Add up my employees' photographed time cards for payroll
A Parix.ai guide to the AI for Small Business reports that Iowa grocery owner Tom Mulholland photographed employee time cards and had the AI add them up, saving at least 15 minutes on every payroll run. (Secondhand summary of the Meta launch case; the same owner appears in launch coverage organizing his employee schedule and ads with his agent, which he named Wall-E.)
Sign up for my Achilles running shifts on Rosterfy by WhatsApp message
A blind runner has the AI list and add his Achilles running-group shifts in Rosterfy, a platform he finds largely unusable on iOS, simply by sending a WhatsApp message asking to be signed up.
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