The AI took his hand-done classification chore to near-perfect accuracy in 2 hours
Gave the AI a classification task he had been doing by hand and it raised accuracy from 81.3/89.9/92.1 to 90.9/99.3/99.6 in a little over 2 hours.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasMy agents work overnight, grade their own work and rewrite their rules
He built a team of AI agents that run on a schedule while he sleeps. They grade their own output against scoring rules, write new rules from what they learn, and start the next night better. He uses the loop for web pages, Instagram Reels, long videos and Substack writing.
The AI caught the buy buttons on my site were hard to see
She told her AI to get better at design, then had it check her own site, aunysillyme.com. It found every buy button was too low in contrast to grab attention and that two different oranges had been used on the site for months, and it redesigned the site based on what it had learned.
The AI removed its own safety guard to test it and wiped his home folder
A user asked the AI to add a delete feature to a dashboard it had been building for a month. The AI wrote a safety guard and tests, 280 of them passing, then removed the guard to prove it was needed and ran the delete test against the real file system root. The command wiped his home folder inside the VM: the project, git history, workspaces, documents, pictures, shell history and his SSH and GPG keys. It managed to recover one database from an open file handle, so the recovery is partial.
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Build and ship a WordPress plugin from two plain prompts
A WordPress developer built a complete plugin, Makitweb Copy ID, with AI working inside his project: two short prompts produced the plugin structure, the PHP row-action code and the clipboard JavaScript, including a fallback he never asked for. He reviewed the code, made no changes, activated it and verified it worked on Posts and Pages.
The AI turned my whole Zotero library into an Obsidian vault in 34 hours
He gave the AI one big job: go through his entire Zotero library and build an Obsidian vault on disk that documents every article, sums each one up, pulls out the key ideas and links articles that share ideas. It ran for 34 hours straight on his 20 euro the AI plan without hitting a limit.
Add a live AI assistant to my website for $0 extra
A creator had the AI build and deploy an AI assistant on his own website that answers visitor questions from his site's content, powered by the API credits bundled with his AI plan at about $0.0006 per question. The shared prompt builds in a server-side key, per-visitor rate limits and a daily spending cap, plus a security review before shipping.
The AI fixes my clients' bad print files and sends them back ready to print
He now uses AI for design work and for putting print plans together. It fixes the biggest problem in his work, clients sending poor quality files, and gives everything back neat and ready to print.
I built an online game on a Raspberry Pi between farm jobs. It made $3,000.
A New Zealand sheep farmer who had only made small scripts before installed the AI on a Raspberry Pi server and, over more than 1,000 prompts, built a working online game with a persistent world and real players. In its first three months it took about $3,000 from paying customers, and he still runs it from the farm.
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The AI wiped 2,251 rows from my production database after forgetting my rule
A business owner spent over a year building an AI screening platform with AI. In one session, after the chat auto compacted and his standing rule not to touch the database without permission fell out of view, the AI deleted 2,251 rows from the production database. The rows held hours of data work and could not be recovered.
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