Built a locksmith lead list for Partexia, sent 15 personalized outreaches, booked
Said asked the AI to find every locksmith in a city for Partexia and pull emails; he sent 15 personalized outreaches and one business replied asking for a call.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasOpus claimed the design was done; it had never opened two of the screens
Opus claimed a designed GUI was completed when it had not followed the design spec at all, admitting the layout was different and that it never opened two of the screens.
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The AI watched my trainings and took my tests. I got 40 certificates.
He had the AI watch his online trainings and take the tests for him, and he collected 40 certificates in one day. He told it not to get perfect scores every time, and he says the system is broken if this works.
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.
An agent writes every sales call into the log and the CRM, and checks the log before anyone dials
His agent writes every sales call into the call log and the CRM, and before anyone on the team gets a number to call, it checks the log first. That stopped the team calling the same people twice.
An agent watches his client's WordPress server around the clock for intruders
Runs an AI agent continuously scanning a WordPress VM and its host for intrusion signs, costing a few dollars a day billed to the customer.
Built a one-page website in ~40 seconds; the output was a weak
The AI built an HTML page in about 40 seconds, but it read like a first-pass concept, not something she'd put in front of anyone — noticeably less developed than the AI’s for the same job. Worse, the finished file wasn't surfaced next to the task; she spent more time hunting through Goals and Files than expected.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
59-year-old non-coder's the AI posts 95 times a week across six accounts
A 59-year-old Japanese logistics worker who has never coded has the AI run 38 routines, including daily posts for three regional 'free places this week' Threads accounts; the agent published 95 posts in Oct 9-15 and one AI-written intro post passed 51,000 views. He reviews output five minutes morning and evening from his 4.5-hour commute.
His notes plugin, built with two agent tools, is listed with 65 users
The AI and the AI built his Obsidian plugin, listed in the Obsidian Directory with 65 users, alongside shell scripts, Alfred workflows and Elisp functions for his own setup.
Update all 12 pages of my website in three minutes
Forum founder MJ DeMarco needed a text update across 12 pages of one of his websites, but the platform that built it demanded a new subscription just to edit. He gave the AI access to the site folder instead; it made all the changes in about 3 minutes, avoiding an estimated hour of manual editing and a $20/month subscription.
$20a month
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