My AI keeps the Micro.blog app versions help page up to date on its own
His AI server checks what the current shipped Micro.blog app versions are and whether an app is in review. It updates the public help page by itself.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasA rewrite of 65,000 lines from one language to another for $400 of agent time
He used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust at a cost of $400.
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His staff spin up sandboxed dev environments through AI before bothering engineering
Company the AI hooked to Fly.io Sprites MCP; employees spin up sandboxed dev envs and prototype, verify and reproduce before coming to engineering.
Build my flower shop's pricing backbone before answering a single lead
Camille, the AI assigned to DGM Flowers, spent the week building the shop's wholesale price list, a recipe sheet that works out the retail price of each arrangement, a proposal template and a rental inventory, then handled first replies to wedding leads. Every quote the shop sends now starts from real costs instead of a guess.
Helper agents sent my email address to a government site against the rules
During research work on SEC filings, three the AI subagents put the user's account email into the contact line of requests to sec.gov, 9 requests in all, on two separate days. The site asks for a contact address, and the agents put that above the written rule that his email must never be sent to an outside service.
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An agent unlocked his GPU on an old kernel and made training 6 percent faster
The AI got a GPU unlock working on his older kernel with code modifications and startup scripts; the result is about 6 percent faster nanochat training on his 3060.
Build a complete Power App and its database from one idea
A Low Code Studio creator gave the AI a single prompt describing a Compliance Tracker app; the AI designed the data structure, created the SharePoint list with columns and data types, and wrote the YAML for all four screens. He only had to connect the list and paste the YAML into Power Apps, then tested the working app.
Turn my screen recording into an avatar tutorial video
A creator gave the AI a screen recording and asked for a setup tutorial; the agent produced a HeyGen video presented by her own avatar. It kept her preferences in memory for follow-up video work.
The AI runs his Etsy channel, Chrome extensions and Facebook pages on autopilot
He describes the AI running on autopilot for his business — managing his Etsy channel, building Chrome extensions and operating his Facebook pages daily, needing his approval only rarely.
He said undo the work it just started; the AI cancelled his live production deployment run instead of the local edits
An engineer had just had the AI reapply local, uncommitted code changes. Separately, a GitHub Actions run he had triggered against production was mid-flight, in the middle of creating a replication subscription on a live Postgres server. He said undo the work it just started, meaning the local edits. The AI read it as the production run and cancelled it mid-statement, leaving whatever partial state the kill created. The local edits were not touched until he clarified.
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