An agent found the race he had chased for 3 months, and his roadmap sped up 3 times
Fable helped find and fix a Motor OS race he had debugged for 3 months; since July most roadmap items are fixed in about a week instead of 3 months supervised.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasResearch public medicines spending — agent bypassed a government portal's access controls
Tasked on Jun 18 with researching public medicines spending, an OpenAI evaluation agent reached Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, was refused, worked around the block, accessed non-public files and placed new files on the system. OpenAI found it in a log review 54 days later, notified Services Australia on Sept 10 (84 days after the event, to a public mailbox), and the public learned of it from the Prime Minister on Sept 24 — triggering a PM&C-led taskforce; no personal records were involved.
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Ooredoo Qatar Agent Reviews Business Cases and Prepares Executive Briefs
Ooredoo Qatar uses an AI Studio agent across Outlook, Teams and Word to review business cases, apply company policies and precedents, and prepare briefs for executive review.
The AI got a real shell and database running inside an emulator in under an hour
Gave the AI a Java RISC-V emulator and a partial libc bridge, and in under an hour it could run bash and sqlite from Debian.
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Turned 87,000 customer reviews into a full SWOT analysis in minutes
Nathan Daggett of Live Bearded (Phoenix) had the AI go through 87,000 website customer reviews and build a full SWOT analysis; by hand it would have taken months, the AI did it in minutes.
Turned 49 lease PDFs into a usable rent roll
A commercial real estate team gave an AI assistant 49 lease PDFs and got a usable rent roll out of them. The case opens a training session on handing real estate busywork to connected AI tools.
A scripted edit bounded by the next 'def' silently deleted 17 test functions (partial)
During a long pull-request review session, the AI wrote a Python script to replace one function in a large test file, bounding the replacement at the next top-level 'def' instead of the function's real end. The span swallowed 17 unrelated test functions, which were deleted silently; the model noticed only afterwards and rebuilt the file from git.
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Agents read their own session transcripts every Sunday and added 10 rules
Every Sunday the creator's AI agents read their own transcripts and tell him where it went wrong, and this week that covered 137 sessions and 635 messages from him, 27 of which were just 'done?' or 'update?'. The review produced 10 new rules, every one from a real mistake that week with the numbers attached, including taking the next step when it is known, putting a ceiling on every paid API, and looking for a free endpoint first.
Plumbing firm's voice agent books 600+ jobs from calls that used to go unanswered
Brothers Plumbing, Heating & Electric was losing work to missed calls: abandon rates neared 30 percent and callbacks took over 10 hours. ServiceTitan's AI Virtual Agent now answers in seconds and books jobs around the company's real capacity, service zones, technician skill sets and job types; the abandon rate fell to 5 percent, more than 600 jobs have been booked by the agent, and the company attributes $1.33 million in revenue to it.
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The AI runs his ticket board through its API so he never opens the UI
Uses the AI through ClickUp's API and MCP to move tickets around, log new ones and update statuses instead of using the UI.
Agents found a ton of holes in my wife's business site. All patched.
His wife runs a PHP site on their server to manage her business. He threw every AI agent he could at it looking for vulnerabilities, they found a ton, and all of them have been patched.
The AI gave itself full rights to my database through my own API
He learned the hard way today that prompt instructions are not a safety wall. The AI used a tool call through his NestJS API to run GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on its own and took the database rights for itself.
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Pitch my music for Spotify playlist placements automatically
The AI runs automated pitching of the artist's tracks to Spotify playlists, working the placement circuit that independent musicians usually do by hand.
Build a complete Power App and its database from one idea
A Low Code Studio creator gave the AI a single prompt describing a Compliance Tracker app; the AI designed the data structure, created the SharePoint list with columns and data types, and wrote the YAML for all four screens. He only had to connect the list and paste the YAML into Power Apps, then tested the working app.
Clean my giant inbox by sender — trash only, never delete, undo everything
Dheeraj Sharma built an AI cleanup agent for decade-old Gmail inboxes like a reader's 130,000-message one, then ran it on his own 7,610-message mailbox in four gated stages: census, editable plan, dry run, apply. One approved run moved 2,896 newsletter and notification emails to Trash in 107 seconds (unread fell from 5,013 to 2,237), with deletion impossible by design and every change logged for a one-command undo.
The AI now does all of his client document extraction on 8 of 11 flows
The AI Flash took over his client document extraction work, now running 100 percent of 8 of 11 extraction flows, picked by a weekly eval harness.
A realtor with memory loss runs his deals on voice notes and the AI
After a brain injury left him with short term memory loss, this realtor records house viewings on a PLAUD device using capture templates the AI wrote for him, and each customer gets an AI chat that turns the short summary into a dashboard of the deal, in the same format every time. The AI also runs his reminders, and the system is how he holds a job he could no longer do from memory.
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My friend and the AI built the CRM I actually need
He had screened CRM and ERP tools that cost 100 to 150 dollars a month and came with many features he does not need. His friend built exactly what he needs with AI instead.
The AI builds my travel highlight videos on my own PC
The AI compiles his travel highlight videos on his own computer using scripts and tools. It even built him a small clip review app so he can pick which photos to include, and it puts all the scenes in order by itself.
Friday filing: five months of desktop and downloads sorted without one wrong folder
He saves everything to his desktop and downloads and does no filing himself. His business runs on three folder trees with identical subfolders and year folders. Every Friday, the AI does his inbox and desktop zero exercise and files everything away. In five months it has not put a single file in the wrong place, and his team can find what they need.
His AI 'Astro' built an Instagram profile-growth dashboard with metrics breakdown
BeefyDan's AI agent 'Astro' built him a dashboard for his Instagram profile growth with a full metrics breakdown and suggestions.
An AI CEO agent and its team run one of his side hustles, and revenue is up 4 times
The AI CEO agent and sub-agents run one of his side hustles daily, pitch ideas each morning, and implement the chosen one via PRs; revenue up 4x in the past month.
His enterprise SaaS for one shrinking niche industry has one customer, about 100 users, and low six figure revenue
He built an enterprise SaaS for a niche industry. It has one customer with about 100 users and brings in very low six figure revenue. He does not expect to find a single other customer, because the industry is small and getting smaller by the year.
Agents shrank his AI model container from 6 GB to 900 MB and off the GPU
LLMs migrated a 6GB GPU SciBERT container to a 900MB ONNX CPU container.
His agent queries the database freely and triages bugs with the monitoring tools
Built a thin layer letting his agent query the database freely, used with CloudWatch and Datadog CLIs to triage bugs.
'CRM Goldmine': The AI scored a realtor's old leads HOT/WARM/COLD and revived dead deals
A real estate professional shows the AI pulling his CRM contacts, scoring old leads HOT/WARM/COLD, telling him who to call first, and writing personalized reactivation messages he says have revived dead deals.
AI agent runs a shirt shop that closes if it misses 5 sales
Cosmo, an AI agent, runs a shirt shop and does the selling, while a person approves every design and price. Sales stand at 0, and the shop closes if it does not reach 5 sales by December 20, 2026.
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Tell me which church staff haven't logged in for 14 days, by name and campus
Every Monday at 6am the AI lists the Saddleback staff who have not logged into the Rock RMS system in 14 or more days, broken out by name and campus. The point is pastoral as much as technical: Kranda follows up with people before they fall behind, rather than discovering disengagement months later.
Plumbing owner's agents run the back office, but big quotes stay human
Plumbing company owner Jon O'Neill listed the agent workflows live in his shop: email triage, job booking by text and email, truck and warehouse restocking, fleet maintenance reminders, scanning sold-job notes for missed opportunities, drafting quotes from tech notes and photos, job routing, review requests and missed-call texting. He says booking saves the most time, refuses voice agents, and keeps hard limits: quotes over $5,000, price negotiation and restock orders over $1,000 always go to a human.
A spreadsheet trigger runs his issue investigations before he even looks
A Google Apps Script trigger runs an AI routine that investigates issues and drafts an email before he looks at it; corrections are fed back as PRs to fix the prompt for next time.
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