His agent found the vulnerability in under an hour from disclosure scraps meant to be useless
Gave his AI agent pre-patch disclosure details meant to be useless; the agent found the vulnerability in less than an hour.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasSell custom Illustrator scripts built with AI on Upwork
A freelance designer with no coding background used a standing AI setup — a dedicated project, custom ExtendScript instructions and a scripting skill — to build three batch logo-processing scripts for an Upwork client. The client paid $640, left a five-star rating and became a repeat client.
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The AI migrated a password reset flow at work, and it was slower than doing it by hand
The AI migrated a password-reset flow in a real work codebase over half a day, producing decent code but slower than doing it by hand after babysitting and cleanup.
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The AI reads his job site photos and CRM notes, writes the client report and sends the invoice
He runs a small home service business. On site his crew capture photos and notes into a CRM; the AI reads the CRM over a connector, studies the photos and writes the full client report he used to write himself. When the report is done he tells the AI to send the invoice, and it builds the Stripe invoice from the project notes and sends it to the customer.
The AI trained a tiny neural net at 6,616 tokens a second and published the models
The AI given a pile of tokens to build a tiny neural net: trained a 3M-parameter MoE at 6,616 tokens per second, models published on Hugging Face, and the AI co-authored a paper about the work.
Our first circuit board, designed by talking to the AI and ordered in under 10 minutes
The team made their first PCB by chatting with AI in an AI app Desktop through their own PCB MCP server. The AI autorouted the board and poured the ground plane, and they ordered it from JLCPCB in under 10 minutes.
The AI maintains my Blender files and pushes renders to our app repos
He builds the visual overlays used in car inspections in Blender. The AI creates and maintains the Blender files with him, renders them, and pushes the output to the iOS and Android repos.
Wrote a Page post caption in her voice and generated images that
The caption sounded like Diana from the start because it worked from her own past posts. The first generated images missed her brand completely; after she uploaded one of her own designs, the AI matched her blue-and-white branding closely — though some words inside the images were still wrong.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI deploys my GA4 and Clarity tags and checks they fire
The AI helps him put GA4 and Microsoft Clarity tags live, with reviews and confirmations built in so he can check the event triggers fire. Cross checking the two tools showed bots being lumped into direct traffic.
The AI found why we were bouncing our own active SMS clickers
His company's system was bouncing active SMS clickers who threw too many 30003 errors. The AI Ultracode found the cause, and the fix means the sunsetting code now ignores active clickers.
The Grout Guy's Photo Agent Cuts Quote Turnaround From Days to Minutes
Australian tiling business The Grout Guy built a photo-analyzing Agentforce agent that cut quote turnaround from days to minutes, one of Salesforce's 2026 Customer Success Award winners.
The AI wrote my warranty claim and the maker sent a free replacement
She had a defective item and had to claim on the warranty through the maker's support chatbot. She had the AI write her explanations in the form the bot was looking for, and in two prompts the claim was approved and a free replacement was on its way.
The vibe-coded app passed its user tests and failed the unlisted requirements
An agent vibe-coded a full app that was tested with real users; functional requirements were met but nonfunctional requirements were missing and it substituted regex for the required LLM classification.
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Run our whole website through AI with checks
Pelcro moved its site off Wix and now runs every change through AI: a custom migration skill rebuilt the old pages, and each new change goes branch, pull request, automated checks, human review, sandbox, then live. Nothing ships unless lint, type, build and content checks all pass.
Run my big projects as the AI threads and keep them moving
John Voorhees has his Dot, Puck, coordinate his work: he spins large projects off into AI threads and lets the Dot manage them, alongside setting up tasks, checking email and doing light research. He says the delegation has worked reliably the couple of times he has used it.
Six agents run his business magazine while he stays out of the day to day
A non technical founder, who spent 25 years in banking, has six AI agents running his small business magazine: a CEO agent, trend scout, researcher, writer, SEO agent and publishing agent. He has caught real errors, including a sales agent that wrote a full report for a fake email address and a CEO agent that burned money by waking up too often.
My bots hold a daily standup. I read the notes and say yes or no.
His bots on the AI hold a daily standup before he has had coffee. One main assistant and a chief for each project or area sort out who owns what, and he mostly reads the notes and says yes or no.
The AI fixed my client's computer problem while I stayed in bed
A client problem came in by email. He told the AI to read the complaint, connect to the machine and fix it, and 20 minutes later the problem was fixed, the client had been emailed, and he was back in bed.
On Employees Launch No-Code Agents for Research, Reporting and Scheduling
Employees at Swiss sportswear brand On launched no-code the AI Enterprise agents themselves. The agents handle knowledge extraction, executive reporting, research, scheduling and onboarding materials.
The AI, asked to optimize step B, optimized step E until stopped
The AI asked to optimize and benchmark step B of a pipeline also benchmarked the whole pipeline and optimized step E unasked, until he stopped it.
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