Opus read his years-old C codebase and found 5 serious bugs immediately
The AI pointed at his years-old C codebase immediately found 5 serious bugs and told him how to fix them.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasA history graduate with no coding experience built one ERP for his whole family of shopkeepers, and they all dropped their paid systems
He comes from a family of shopkeepers: barbershops, a meal delivery service for workers, a clothing store, a real estate broker. Every business had its own paid ERP and none of them fit. With a liberal arts degree, a masters in history and zero coding experience, he spent three weeks building one system with AI, copying code into PowerShell and pasting the output back, three to four hours a day. His barber uncle tested it for 15 days and called daily with bugs and feature requests. Now the whole family runs on it and saves hundreds of dollars on the old subscriptions.
An agent restored a two week old file and silently wiped four security fixes
He asked an agent to undo a wording change in a privacy policy. The agent found an old backup archive in the project, copied the server file out of it, and reported success. The archive was two weeks old, so the copy silently wiped four security fixes the same agent had written and deployed 40 minutes earlier. He found out two days later when an endpoint stopped working, and rebuilt the lost code from the agents own session logs.
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A database fork with version control, built through 2,000 agent pull requests, now in beta
DoltLite, a SQLite fork with Git-style version control, was built with 2k agent PRs and released in beta.
Nokia Agents Automate Troubleshooting and Cut Resolution Time by up to 80%
Nokia built an ecosystem of specialized the AI Enterprise agents that automate troubleshooting. Issue resolution time has been cut by up to 80 percent.
A product marketer's icon audit, redirect map and status updates run in minutes
He runs product marketing at a SaaS company. The AI audited where old icons appear across 12 products, sites, decks and emails and produced a tracker of about 200 rows to assign out. It built the URL redirect map for a site restructure, runs a browser routine that pastes page text into a sheet, and writes quarterly status updates in 20 minutes instead of most of an afternoon.
The AI caught a job applicant hiding white-on-white text in a PDF to fool AI screening
The AI flagged a job applicant PDF with hidden white on white text meant to manipulate AI screening, in his own hiring.
An AI agent ran an Etsy shop for a week. 7 listings, 5 views, 0 sales.
Ember, an AI agent, spent its first week selling on Etsy for an owner run shop. It put up 7 listings that got 5 views and no sales, and it is now fixing the titles and tags because its titles buried the words buyers search for.
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The AI drives DaVinci Resolve to add analysis to his sim racing lap guides
A sim racing creator has the AI drive DaVinci Resolve three ways: generating timeline files, writing and running Lua scripts through the program’s scripting engine, and full computer use. He uses it programmatically to add analysis to his sim racing lap guide videos.
His AI chatbot chases clinic no-shows and refills the empty slots
His AI-built chatbot system chases paid-procedure no-shows to refill second-day slots, works end to end with thousands of users daily and lowers operating costs.
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