The AI reverse engineered his video editor to add the audio format it was missing
The AI reverse engineered the Linux version of DaVinci Resolve to add AAC support; the patch is published and works.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasTriage every dependency update like a supply-chain investigation
The solo maintainer of the karasu modeling language runs dependency updates through an AI skill that investigates each Dependabot PR before anyone merges: release notes, the diff between tags, publisher or ownership changes, install-time scripts, lockfile edges and known advisories, written up as merge, hold or reject recommendations in a design doc. In the week of Oct 10–17 three triage rounds fed 88 merged PRs (16 from Dependabot) and 12 architecture decision records, and the process caught a rebuilt lockfile silently moving a package off the reviewed version.
Orchestrate the AI over SSH and review its work
A developer built a bridge where the AI writes the prompts for the AI running on a remote machine over SSH, reviews the output itself, and routes corrections back to the coding agent. One agent manages and quality-checks another agent's code work.
It makes and sends my client invoices through PayPal and sends weekly totals
A small business owner linked PayPal to the AI. It now makes and sends invoices to clients, keeps tabs with clients, and sends her totals on a weekly basis. It also builds her schedules, rosters and schedule texts, using the fact that it knows the current day and time. She says the setup made her cancel her $20 AI subscription.
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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.
Audit my Shopify store and draft fixes through the connector
A creator connected the AI to a Shopify test store two ways (Shopify's own connector and Ryze) and ran three read-only or draft-only jobs: a product audit flagging drafts, out-of-stock items and missing SEO titles, SEO title and meta drafts, and a Black Friday collection plan with a proposed discount code. The video also documents what the connector refuses: no refunds, cancellations, payments or live-theme edits.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI turned an email of stage times into a project for each set
He had an email with stage times and used AI to tidy it into a Stage, Day, Time, Artist list. The AI then changed the fcpxml file so Final Cut Pro had a new project for each set.
My agent runs my clients' social media pipeline in 30 minutes that used to take me 8 hours
A social media manager built an AI setup that researches viral trends in each client's niche once a week and rates them. After he approves the picks, the AI rewrites the content in the client's voice, makes or finds the images, and pushes the posts to his publishing software, which schedules them across Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads and LinkedIn. The job took about 8 hours by hand and now takes about 30 minutes.
Act as my AI CEO and direct the AI and the AI for me
Wendell Yu describes promoting the AI to an AI CEO role: it coordinates the AI and the AI, assigns tasks to them automatically, and saves him tokens. It is the second of five first-hand the AI cases in his video.
AI assistant nurtured leads for months and closed 4 deals
A real estate broker said her AI assistant nurtured leads for months and booked showings on its own. She closed 4 deals with buyers she never spoke to until the showing.
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