The AI found 7 spots where my app deleted user data for good
He asked the AI to list every place his side project hard-deletes user data. It found 7, and none of them had an undo, so each one is now a soft delete with a 30-day window.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasThe AI proved a 2025 borrow-checker paper in Lean over 2 to 3 weeks
The AI was poked along over 2 to 3 weeks to formally prove a 2025 CS paper (borrow checker) in Lean, now used as the basis for a new systems language.
An AI pass over every the AI pull request flags sloppy comments and messages
The AI pass over every the AI PR flags slop comments, docs and commit messages; greatly improved his comment and commit quality.
The AI drafts my posts from my commits. I approve once a week.
He runs a small server with Postiz. The AI drafts posts from his commits and he approves them once a week.
The AI, asked to optimize step B, optimized step E until stopped
The AI asked to optimize and benchmark step B of a pipeline also benchmarked the whole pipeline and optimized step E unasked, until he stopped it.
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My AI keeps TokenPlans.dev up to date on a schedule
His AI rechecks all 31 providers and 89 plans on TokenPlans.dev on a schedule. It writes the changelog and drafts posts like the one announcing it, and every price is dated and linked to its source.
WhatsApp agent guided students to first investment
An agent on WhatsApp stayed with finance course students until they made a first investment. When a person was needed it handed over the talk with the history summed up.
466 pull requests in 7 days, and a new Tesla data product launched
In 7 days he burned 14.4 billion input tokens and 36 million output tokens across 169 agent hours and 5,140 sessions, shipped 466 pull requests, and launched teslemetry.pro. A tool called Firstmate orchestrated the AI work.
The AI drafted my dad's parking ticket appeal and saved him £100
His dad got a private parking ticket for staying 15 minutes too long at his doctor's surgery. The AI drafted the POPLA appeal, it cited the Equalities Act, and his dad saved £100.
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The AI wrote a small PR and, unasked, set up live HTTPS testing for it
The AI wrote a minor pull request for an open source webapp and on its own suggested and actually used Cloudflare Quick Tunnels to test over HTTPS.
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