Ten AI sessions at once build the web crawlers for his classics project
AI sessions run in parallel building website crawlers for his classicalbot.com project on his VPS, about 10 parallel at most.
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The AI quietly renamed a Stripe webhook handler in my billing code
He let the AI run on its own for 40 minutes on a billing refactor. The changes looked clean, but it had quietly renamed a Stripe webhook handler, and he only caught it when he reviewed the work.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
I moved my blog and its 2,262 posts with AI
He moved his Topedia blog from WordPress to EmDash on a Cloudflare Worker, with AI as his technical partner. They moved 2,262 posts, comments and pages in under 7 days, and the site now loads faster and is ready for Markdown.
Kmart and Officeworks Shopping Agents Lift Conversion up to 3x
Wesfarmers retail brands Kmart Australia and Officeworks deployed the AI Enterprise shopping agents. They report higher conversions and basket sizes, with growth up to three times.
Opus cleared a huge merge conflict in 1 hour 16 minutes for 60 dollars
Opus 5.5 resolved a huge merge conflict in 1 hour 16 minutes for 60 dollars.
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The AI called my library to ask if it has outlets
He needed to know if a library near him had outlets. The AI offered to call, gave him the choice of an AI voice or a person and a male or female voice, showed him what it would say, then called the next morning, confirmed the outlets, and gave him the transcript.
Research my book's comps on Amazon
For his author test week, Christopher Kokoski pointed the AI at Amazon to research comparable titles (what is selling, cover styles, reviewer complaints). Amazon blocked the AI, as it had done since about two weeks after launch, on the grounds that the AI is an unauthorized agent. Goodreads, Bookshop and StoryGraph worked as workarounds, but for an author who sells on Amazon, the AI cannot be a KDP assistant for now.
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The AI pinned her whole Copenhagen itinerary to Google Maps automatically
She gave the AI her Copenhagen itinerary and it saved every restaurant, museum, shop and point of interest directly to Google Maps, so the plan is pinned and adaptable on the ground instead of manually entered place by place.
Tell me which deal is most at risk, using Salesforce and Jira together
Following up without restating context, CData's Dot took the five pipeline deals (three accounts), searched Jira for open issues per account, found none, and named the Targeted Therapy Corp renewal most at risk: past its close date, described as a cancelled project, at 10% probability. The post says the same answer by hand can take days of asking engineering and searching two systems.
The AI turned my music listening history into a scrolling story
He tried many ways to show how certain artists became his favorites and how some faded out of his rotation. With the AI he ended up with a scrollable Sankey story of his listening, published on his dashboards site.
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