The AI helped port a modern interface toolkit back to Windows XP, with graphics working
With the help of the AI, ported the current dev branch of Qt6 back to Windows XP with working OpenGL.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasA small tech firm gave the AI 41 scoped tools and it now handles first line support tickets
The owner of a small technology company called ALAPKO runs AI as the reasoning layer for an internal support worker they call Mabel, with 41 purpose built tools tied into their systems. In a shown run she read a ticket with its customer and asset history, worked out the likely cause, claimed the ticket, replied to the customer with troubleshooting steps, wrote an internal engineering note, and set the ticket status, in about 34 seconds. Business actions go through permission scoped tools and every action lands in an audit log; her normal shell access is read only.
The AI transcribed over 70,000 document images in two days for $380
He had the AI transcribe more than 70,000 images of old documents in two days, for $380 in total. The handwriting and worn pages hurt the quality and it did worse in Portuguese than in English, but the AI handled the whole run.
The AI built him a strict editing app, and he used it on the document he is writing
Used the AI to build an omit needless words app and used it to edit a document he is working on, accepting about a third of its suggestions.
The AI’s code review pushed a bad design change that later models treated as settled policy
The AI Code Review pushed a bad architectural change (an overlay service) that later LLMs treated as policy and kept bandaiding, complexity grew until he untangled it under close supervision.
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The AI built my test cases and test plan in Azure DevOps
He asked the AI to turn his requirements into test cases and build a test plan in Azure DevOps for his QA team to review. He says the job is done.
Ran a 48-hour creative-business project: organized ideas, planned content, created working systems,
The Life Force Design owner named her AI 'Flow' and gave it a real creative-business job (Etsy shop LifeforceDesign): over ~48 hours it helped organize ideas, plan content, create working systems, review decisions and prepare material for publication — intention to execution to review to publication.
His scheduled agent workflows turn warehouse data into a self-contained dashboard
Has a number of the AI scheduled workflows that pull warehouse data to make a dashboard with an embedded DuckDB loaded with the data.
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.
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Opus 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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