The AI with cluster access found a sneaky shutdown bug in 10 minutes
Gave the AI kubectl access and it chased down a sneaky shutdown performance bug in 10 minutes, producing a spot-on diagnosis sent to developers.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasHe replaced a $180 a month work platform with his own build that costs under $30
His company paid $180 a month for five seats on SmartSuite, the tool holding their documents and HR files. He built a replacement with AI that fits their exact needs, can grow to thousands of users, and will cost less than $30 a month to run.
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Three the AI models refactored his whole editor codebase into crates in a weekend
The AI Fable, Opus and Sonnet refactored the whole Vix IDE codebase into separate Rust crates and Cargo features in a weekend, enabling feature-picking for security audits.
Send 25 brand outreach emails with my media kit and follow up in three days
The creator's agent Squishy sent 25 brand outreach emails with his media kit attached and scheduled follow-ups three days later for non-responders.
A 3 am task reads my notes and writes my next video proposal
A scheduled task on his Mac fired at 3 am, ran AI on his notes folder, read his git log for the last 26 hours, and wrote one video proposal as markdown. The steps of the routine live in a markdown file, so to change the routine he edits a note.
Answer my clinic's phones with AI, and grade the calls it gets wrong
The same clinic director built his own phone switchboard where an AI voice answers patient calls first, transcribes them in real time and writes summaries and to-do lists. When two AI models disagree on how a call should be classified, the call lands on a grading screen where he taps number keys to mark the right answer.
The AI matches the bank payments to the right invoices and marks them paid
A services co-op connected the AI to its Salesforce. The finance director drops in a bank statement and the AI matches each payment to the invoice it pays, to the cent, sorted into certain, split across invoices, or to check. Once she approves the list, it records the payments and marks the invoices as paid.
A local AI built a legacy Windows project into an exe while he slept
Local AI installed QEMU, set up a VM, installed Windows 10 and VS Community 2019 with baked-in automation, installed dependencies, and built a legacy VB project into an exe while he slept.
AI agent booked his Tatkal train ticket end to end
He set GPT-6 Astra to start at 10:59:50, just before Tatkal booking opened, and the agent ran the whole IRCTC booking itself. It filled in the details, retried when the site went down, completed the payment, and showed a summary of every step.
A week of posts written and scheduled in one weekend hour
She spent an hour on the weekend with AI and turned a bunch of her ideas into posts for the whole week. Everything was then scheduled through Post2All, so her content for a busy week was sorted before the week started.
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