The AI transcribed over 28,000 documents for our history project
He and a colleague used AI to transcribe over 28,000 documents for the Papers of the War Department project. They wrote up how they did it on the RRCHNM blog.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasHis support agent answered over 1,467 real buyers on its own
Shipped a RAG customer-service agent for an online seller that sent 1,467 or more replies automatically to real buyers and ran the chat channel unattended.
AI agent booked his Tatkal train ticket end to end
He set GPT-6 Astra to start at 10:59:50, just before Tatkal booking opened, and the agent ran the whole IRCTC booking itself. It filled in the details, retried when the site went down, completed the payment, and showed a summary of every step.
An AI skill that hunts freelance gigs across seven portals
Tomasz Woliński of Polish IT training firm StormIT built an AI skill, /szukaj-zlecen, that with one command searches seven freelancer portals, collects job listings, rates their difficulty, estimates budgets and suggests how to approach each one. Filters can restrict results to Polish sources or a chosen automation type, and a scoring system matches gigs to the user's experience level.
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.
An LLM built my court bundle. The court issued it in 5.5 hours.
Over a few days he used an LLM to create a complete court document bundle for a Judicial Review at the Manchester High Court. He filed the documents today and the court issued them within 5.5 hours, something he says he had no chance of doing on his own.
Ask the AI what in my 1,412 unread emails actually needs me
Josh Dubowsky connected the AI to his Gmail and asked what he needed to deal with that week: six items came back in about nine seconds and five were right, but the sixth claimed he had confirmed attendance at an October event he had explicitly declined — the summary had dropped the word 'unfortunately'. Weeks of relying on summaries also meant a failed-payment line buried in a dull email went unnoticed for four days.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
I build tools for my kids' school in days, not weeks
He volunteers building tools for his kids' school and activities. Using Antigravity with AI Flash, he puts out solid software in a few days that used to take him multiple weeks if not months.
An agent harness converted his framework to the modern API and rescued a rotting project
An agentic harness for Sonnet 3.5 converted a medium-large vue-class-component framework to Vue 3 composition API, rescuing a personal project from software rot.
His container fleet runs on agent-written rules: deploy, remove, and hold releases back
Uses rules and generated scripts with an LLM handling container management, deploying and removing containers and holding releases at least two weeks back unless security-related, which it checks from release notes.
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