All ideasMore in Work
Work

The AI found the hidden sync bug in a queue he had shelved, and it now runs at 107,500 adds a second

The AI found the hidden WAL sync bug in his shelved delay queue; he rewrote it and got benchmarked results like 107,500 durable adds per second.

How it works

  1. The AI digs into the shelved queue code
  2. Finds the hidden write-ahead log sync bug
  3. He rewrites it
  4. Benchmarks show 107,500 durable adds per second

Why it’s worth knowing

The bug survived being shelved; one agent session found what he had missed.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

Upgraded prompt

A ready-to-use prompt for this idea, built from research on what makes AI agents do the job right: who the AI should be, the exact steps, and a check to make sure it was done the way you wanted.

1Who the AI should be
2The prompt, with the steps
3The check when it’s done
Upgraded prompts are coming soon.

Try next

WorkA contractor talks measurements into his phone and QuickBooks sends the estimate in 45 secondsWorkWhatsApp agent qualified leads, sales reached 461 thousand reaisWorkA text and voice agent worked a realtor's 60,000 old leads and turned up 34 closed dealsWorkFive years of books rebuilt from 34,000 transactions across 27 statement formats

Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.