The AI went through my 250 newsletters and my blog is live
The AI spent a couple of hours going through about 250 of her past newsletters and repurposing them. Her blog is now live with that material.
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The AI does his boring paperwork in his own logged in browser: reserve duty refunds, national insurance, flight check-ins
Outside code, his biggest win is boring paperwork. The AI filed his reserve duty refunds, sorted out his national insurance payments and did his flight check-ins, working in his own logged in Chrome. Each job is about ten minutes of work, which is exactly why he kept putting them off. He gives each area of his life its own folder with a CLAUDE.md and a notes file, so the money stuff does not mix with the rest.
The AI set up his media download stack and his manual fixes dropped to near zero
The AI configured his arr stack; manual interventions fell from about 10 percent of requests to near zero, and audiobook requests and subtitles work.
An LLM wrote a C compiler for an old chip in about 90 minutes, near the reference size
Asked an LLM to generate a C compiler for the 8051; within about 90 minutes it was compiling his project at 60 percent of SDCC's output size and later passed the SDCC test suite.
90 minsaved
I asked the AI to erase my name from data broker sites
She asked the AI to erase her digital footprint. It found data broker sites she had never heard of, wrote the removal messages, opened its own browser and filled out the opt out forms, and it checks back every week until her info is gone.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Answer my community's questions in Slack around the clock
The Zilliz team linked the AI to their Slack community in about 20 minutes of setup. The agent now answers user questions around the clock.
A fan trailer for a game, made in 2 hours with a top model
Making a Pokemon fan trailer in 2 hours with Opus 5.5, a finished artifact.
2 hourssaved
The vendor tracker he built is what his real-estate mother recommends clients from
Built a vendor tracker app his mother, a real estate agent, uses to recommend vendors to clients.
The AI moved my whole Twitter archive into my Day One journal
He left Twitter in 2022 and had wanted his archive in the Day One journal app ever since. The AI did the import in an hour, and that time included backing up his databases first in case anything went wrong.
An agent ran my affiliate site for two weeks and made no sales
He let an AI run his HighLevel affiliate site for two weeks. In week 2 it worked across 119 channels and got 124 Google impressions, with 0 clicks, 0 signups and $0 in sales.
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