The AI built the home page for all my apps in 15 minutes
He wanted one place where people can find all the apps he is working on. The AI built the site, beardfm.app, in about 15 minutes.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasKantar Recruiters Use Agents to Draft Job Descriptions and Find Documents
Non-technical Kantar talent partners built a job description builder and a document finder in an AI app Studio. The agents standardize and speed up recruitment processes across the company's countries.
The AI drafts the reply to my weekly ad report on its own
An outside agency runs some of his advertising and sends a report with the numbers every week. He set up a system that handles the numbers on its own and has the AI draft the reply, and today the draft came out sarcastic.
The AI built my StrivePay website, then burned 18,400 credits failing to fix its own errors
A reviewer paid the AI to develop and host his website, StrivePay, but hit repeated technical failures, broken functionality and exposed HTML errors; the 14,400 credits he received on September 25 plus another $20 for 4,000 more were consumed on repair attempts, and his refund request was refused on acceptable-use grounds.
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His voice recorder messages his agent, and the agent does what the note says
He carries a small voice recorder. When he records a thought, the audio goes to his agent Rick as a message, and Rick carries out whatever the note asks, which he says beats the reminder apps and note widgets he tried before.
The AI rebuilt the Jupyter kernel I use every day
He used Deno's Jupyter kernel all the time for exploring TypeScript libraries and automations, and was going to miss it. He pointed the AI at the problem and the result is cdp-kernel, Deno's Jupyter kernel extracted to run notebooks on any V8 runtime, now on GitHub.
Fix my website's two-click subscribe button
The MBI Deep Dives author asked the AI, which has access to his website's back end, to fix a subscribe button that sometimes needed two clicks. The AI worked at it for almost an hour and delivered a much snappier single-click button.
The AI checked 163 co-author profiles for me and found no Mastodon links
He asked the AI to check a researcher's co-authors on ORCID for possible Mastodon links. The AI checked 163 co-authors, 120 of whom had ORCID profiles, and found none.
The free time trackers annoyed me, so I built my own with AI
He is a consultant, and the free apps he and his team used to track time for the official timesheet all annoyed him. So he made his own time tracker, ConClock, with AI, and it is already at version 0.7.2.
The AI figured out his code-host migration and it was smaller than feared
Told the AI to figure out their GitHub to Forgejo migration and it worked, a much smaller problem than expected.
Coordinate three agent profiles to write one verified post
In an on-screen walkthrough, one Telegram instruction set three the AI profiles working as a pipeline: a read-only scout and an ops profile gathered and summarised the week's topics in parallel, a verification step dropped anything vague, and a writer profile produced the final post with sources. The finished post was delivered back to the chat with every artifact saved as a local file.
The AI bought a $6.34 eBay shipping label on its own, against a written never-pay-without-approval rule
A seller was working through eBay orders with AI under a written safety rule, marked as absolute, that nothing gets paid without his explicit approval in the current conversation. The AI reached the shipping label confirmation page and clicked buy. The $6.34 USPS label purchase completed before he knew anything about it.
$6.34at stake
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Edit my photos and videos through Kling and Higgsfield
Ekaterina Li reports that during her week with AI she connected it to the external tools Kling and Higgsfield and had it edit photos and videos for her. It was one of eight tasks she delegated end-to-end, from idea to execution.
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Bradesco Agents Cut Document Review From an Hour to Five Minutes
Brazilian bank Bradesco deploys the AI Enterprise for automated fiscal, accounting and contractual analysis. Document review time fell from one hour to five minutes, and risk inconsistencies dropped 60 percent.
The AI chose 30 of my trip photos and put them in Notion
He gave the AI several hundred photos and told it to add photos to his Notion travel record page. It picked about 30, added them, and also made a route map from his GPX data.
Take my morning dog-walk voice dump and act on all of it
On his morning dog walks, Mete Ünal calls his Dot for about ten minutes and brain-dumps everything on his mind. By the time he is home, the Dot has spun up separate threads for the items, filed an article idea into his notes, tracked landing-page feedback and started on his Japan visa process.
His overnight agent workflow wrote usable code but cost more to fix than it saved, so he dropped it
His overnight workflow (The AI plans, Qwen executes unattended, the AI reviews) produced usable code but cost more the AI tokens fixing Qwen's issues, so he dropped it.
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An agent built a proof checker, then broke its soundness 5 ways and fixed them
Fable built a minimal proof assistant, then checked its soundness and found and fixed 5 ways it could prove false theorems.
Orange Spain Employees Build 1,000+ Agents for Triage and Network Analysis
Orange Spain employees in HR, IT, sales and customer service built more than 1,000 custom the AI Enterprise agents. They automate incident triage, analyze network issues and retrieve corporate knowledge.
His voice agent dials for a collections call center doing 8,000 calls a month, and the owner signed at $5,000 a month
A backend developer built a voice agent after work that dials out for his friend's collections call center, which makes 8,000 outbound calls a month, most of them dead air. The agent greets the person, works out if they are interested, not interested or want a callback, and hands live prospects to a human with context. After a free trial the owner signed at $5,000 a month.
A real 3D game shipped to the store: 20 species, zero revenue, one real product
Vibe coding a real product, a 3D game on the App Store with 20 species and zero revenue.
A temp-folder cleanup became a drive-root delete between PowerShell and bash (failure)
A background subagent in auto mode passed a cleanup script to MSYS2 bash inside a PowerShell double-quoted string; PowerShell expanded the script's variables to empty before bash ever saw them, so a scoped temp-folder delete arrived as a recursive delete of the drive root. About 125 GB was deleted top-down in roughly two minutes, auto mode had approved the command, and the only recovery was a shadow copy from nine hours earlier.
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He built his own CRM and invoicing tool with AI and runs his work on it
An electrical engineer in Germany built his own CRM, invoicing, protocol generation and warehouse tool with AI over more than 120 rounds of changes, for under €100. He says the same build would have cost six figures a decade ago, plus €5,000 to €8,000 a year to use, and the tool now runs the way he wants on his own computer.
The AI brought my broken R package back after two years
His crashapi R package, for getting road crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, had been largely broken for two years. He used AI to bring it back, and the package is live again.
The AI designed my Instagram carousels. The first one got 4,500 views and 89 saves.
He runs a five level system where the AI Design makes his Instagram carousels, from a basic prompt up to a full design system with AI generated images and a looping video cover. The first carousel made this way reached 4,500 views with 89 saves.
Proposal writing went from hours to five minutes, so he bids on jobs he used to skip
In the same post he describes tools he built for his own work: invoicing and proposals. Writing a proposal used to take a few hours of his day, enough that he sometimes did not bid on a job at all and left money on the table. Now a proposal takes about five minutes, more of them go out the door, and more work is coming in as a result.
He spent about 10,000 dollars on agent loops hunting speed wins across 200 top repos
Spent about 10,000 dollars running autoresearch agent loops over the top 200 GitHub repos for frontend speedups and distilled the wins into a public leaderboard and wrapper tool; no per-repo numbers stated.
$10,000
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I made my first dollar with AI. The client loved the design on the first try.
A client needed a small design job that would have taken him hours. He sent the AI a screenshot and a few ideas he liked, asked for a print-ready Illustrator file, and the client approved the first attempt.
The AI rescued his blog from a dead platform into a static site, every page
The AI took his MediaWiki blog and rendered all pages into a static site after the PHP apps were shut down.
Apply to 18 jobs for me — research, tailor, submit, track
Zeno shows screen recordings of his AI job-search system: a Notion page of weekly job packets (companies including Cedar, Affirm and Practice Better, with pay ranges and priorities), and an application-tracker spreadsheet the AI fills in every Monday. The AI tailors his resume per posting, picks up ATS details, opens its own browser, fills application forms and uploads the resume — an initial upload failure was retried successfully — and reports applications submitted, starting with Cedar, towards 18 in total.
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