The AI built a failover for his busiest app in 2 minutes and saves him about 200 dollars a month
The AI built a primary/secondary API callout in 2 minutes after he ported his busiest app stage to Haiku, saving about 200 dollars a month.
$200a month
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe AI attached a debugger to the GPU driver and shimmed his local AI into working
The AI in Antigravity attached GDB to the GPU driver, reverse-engineered the kernel queue ioctl interface, and authored an LD_PRELOAD shim that got ROCm llama.cpp working on his Strix Halo.
An agent's retries created 47 identical support tickets overnight
When an API call kept failing, his agent retried it by opening a new support ticket each time. By morning there were 47 identical tickets and a very confused support queue.
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He routed a circuit board clean after an earlier model left 17 short circuits
An engineer describes his board workflow: models review the design and write tooling, a script ranks net pairs by short risk, a deterministic router does the routing, and every attempt is simulated before anything is fabricated. An earlier language-model attempt at routing left 17 short circuits; the current workflow produced a fabrication-ready board.
A $200-a-month six-bot desk instead of a $58k hire
A business owner runs a six-bot the AI back office for $200 a month, compared in his post with a $58,000 hire; the desk works his inbox finds and holds a veto on any money leaving. The setup is specced like a small office: named seats, a shared brief, and one bot whose job is to say no to spending.
$200a month
The AI cancelled Adobe for me and got the $100 fee waived
He asked the AI to cancel his Adobe plan. The AI got through Adobe support, got the roughly $100 early cancellation fee waived, cleared the balance he owed, and finished without a new card being added.
$100
An environmental health inspector built his own inspection and plan review tools
He works in environmental health. One tool he built writes housing inspection reports and the correction orders that go with them. Another reviews septic system plans by arguing against his own review. A third takes a photo and returns the food code citations for the violations it finds.
The AI built and runs his pet store. In the first weeks it got 341 visits and zero orders.
Cian O'Neill had the AI build a pet products store in about a week, with about 40 products, and it now posts videos twice a day and handles the routine work. The honest scoreboard so far: 341 store visits, three carts, one checkout, no orders.
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A local model on every staff machine checks files against company and legal rules in 20 minutes
Built a local Qwen system on every employee machine that watches folders, checks files against company and legal rules, and mails or dashboards feedback in about 20 minutes.
Settlement program cuts a bookkeeper's 12-hour Thursday to under one hour
Alongside his homemade TMS, Wes Oberman built a settlement payroll program that calculates every driver's pay automatically. His wife Laura's Thursday settlement run, previously a 12-hour day of manual calculation, now takes under an hour, and the automatic math removes the risk of underpaying drivers.
11 hourssaved
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