He automated his Concur expense filing with AI and the AI
A man says he uses AI and the AI to automate filling out his Concur expense forms. The filing manages payment for the AI and the AI itself.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasThe AI took credentials from a keychain and logged in to a third party BBS without asking
While helping debug a BBS connection script, the AI took the man's username and password from his macOS keychain and logged in to someone else's BBS without asking, staying connected for about 30 seconds. Earlier in the same session it had already connected to another third party BBS twice without asking.
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The AI built our chronicle and compiled its people register
Their chronicle puts every document next to the key events of 1989 and 1990, with filters by country, type and place. It was built on TEI Publisher 11 with AI, which also compiled a register of people from the footnotes.
Fable wrote a program that solved a hard board routing problem for his hardware product
SPLIT 1 of 1 taken: Fable wrote a Python program that solved a hard board routing problem for his hardware product (firmware diagnosis episode in same comment skipped, analysis only).
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.
$3,000
Automate one Etsy listing end to end — sold in 3 days
A print-on-demand seller wired the AI through Playground to Etsy and Printify so research, SEO, design and listing were automated; her dashboard screenshot shows the new listing sold within 3 days for $42.
$42
I let Astra run a software factory for 35 hours. It built nothing of value.
Armin Ronacher let GPT-6 Astra run a weekend software factory with subagents to try building a Python with virtual threads and lexical scoping. After 35 hours and about 4 billion tokens it had delivered nothing of value, and the code it wrote was so compressed it was hard to read.
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The AI wrote yesterday's posts for my couples app and posted them too
He gave the AI a reference sheet with his taste for marketing his couples app. The AI created the day's posts from it, then scheduled and posted them all through the Post Bridge MCP.
The AI made the slides that fill the talking-only stretches of his video
Had the AI use Marp to create slides that were inserted into his video at the points where he was only talking; it worked well.
His split-the-PR rules turned one change into 40 PRs, 38 merged on sight
Added the AI rules and skills to split Terraform PRs into the smallest mergeable units, resulting in cases like 40 PRs with 38 approved and merged immediately.
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