The AI applied for 38 jobs for me in 3 days
A job seeker let the AI apply for jobs for him over 3 days, Sept 22 to 24. It sent 38 applications, all remote, mostly IT support roles, while he sent only 2 himself.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe AI hunts reply opportunities and content gaps for his app every day
The AI runs a daily reply-opportunity scan across forums and a daily SEO keyword and content-gap research report for his app.
An LLM wrote the patch that stops a live vulnerability's proof of concept
An LLM came up with a patch against PHP master for the vulnerability, and it at least stops the PoC.
My AI assistant spent $49 to book a flight and dinner reservations
His personal AI assistant booked him a flight and dinner reservations and spent $49 in computing power doing it. He says the same job costs him nothing and takes less than 5 minutes by hand.
$49
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Kill my Squarespace, migrate me to Shopify, and activate my free Apple TV
The user's agent, nicknamed for its savings habit, cancelled Squarespace, migrated the site to Shopify, and discovered his Apple TV subscription was already free through his Chase Sapphire Reserve, activating that instead of paying.
My AI assistant built my keynote deck from my talk
He gave a keynote in Cincinnati this week and did not build a single slide himself. He told his AI assistant the talk, it made the deck, and he fixed it by text.
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 runs guest outreach for a livestreamed news show — with a human check before anything goes out
For her livestreamed news show SCN, the AI automates guest outreach: it organizes prospects by industry and checks with her before publishing anything or spending money.
Concur AI booked my flight with my birth date wrong
Concur's AI booked a man's flight but read his European passport wrong and put his birth date down as the 1st of the 18th month. The flight ended up booked with the wrong birth date.
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Apply to 18 jobs for me — research, tailor, submit, track
Zeno shows screen recordings of his AI job-search system: a Notion page of weekly job packets (companies including Cedar, Affirm and Practice Better, with pay ranges and priorities), and an application-tracker spreadsheet the AI fills in every Monday. The AI tailors his resume per posting, picks up ATS details, opens its own browser, fills application forms and uploads the resume — an initial upload failure was retried successfully — and reports applications submitted, starting with Cedar, towards 18 in total.
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