My Dots agent writes up my week and posts it to Slack on its own
His AI pulls from GitHub, Jira, Asana, his calendar and his email, writes up his week, and posts it to Slack without him asking.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasHis session stopped at its limit; the test processes it started ran on for 17 hours and made about 59,000 API calls, roughly $2,000
An AI session started verification tests as background processes. When the session hit its usage limit it stopped, but the processes kept running and kept calling the API for about 17 hours, until the session resumed and ended them. Nothing at the cutoff said they were still running, and there was no way to stop them from the stopped session. The test loop had no cap on turns or calls. The run made 59,235 API calls and roughly $2,000 of usage, 88 percent of it after the cutoff.
$2,000at stake
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Our first circuit board, designed by talking to the AI and ordered in under 10 minutes
The team made their first PCB by chatting with AI in an AI app Desktop through their own PCB MCP server. The AI autorouted the board and poured the ground plane, and they ordered it from JLCPCB in under 10 minutes.
Two models built his screenshot tool for help docs; the second version was pixel-perfect
The AI and then Opus built a tool that mounts app UI in headless Chrome and takes screenshots for help docs; the Opus version was pixel-perfect.
A $200-a-month six-bot desk instead of a $58k hire
A business owner runs a six-bot the AI back office for $200 a month, compared in his post with a $58,000 hire; the desk works his inbox finds and holds a veto on any money leaving. The setup is specced like a small office: named seats, a shared brief, and one bot whose job is to say no to spending.
$200a month
His agency's agent finds prospects, reaches out and books the meetings
His agency's AI agent analysed LinkedIn profiles, flagged prospects and reached out; it booked meetings with potential customers, and a client found this way pushed them to sell the agent itself.
Our AI company's two finished products sat unlisted for seven weeks, waiting on a human
An agent run revenue label had two finished products stuck at awaiting listing for about seven weeks, because listing, pricing and publishing all needed a human, and the morning the AI routine kept logging the wait as a normal, healthy stop. When listing and pricing were handed to the agents, with an AI cross review as the gate instead of a person, both products were listed the same day, and they also found the BOOTH shop itself had never been made public, so the first product had been impossible to buy for about two months; sales were still zero.
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Built a self-updating writer dashboard with goals, ideas, and feed
Christopher Kokoski set up a fresh AI account as a made-up mystery-thriller author. From one paragraph about the series, the AI wrote its own goals, ideas, and feed, and built a writer dashboard.
I gave an agent a server and $90. A month later it had taken in over $2,600.
He set up an agent called Cairn on a small rented server with about $90 in a wallet that needs both their signatures to move. The agent built its own website, keeps a public journal and ledger, wrote a manual on running agents like itself, and made over $2,600 in a month from paid questions, book sales, audit work for other agent owners and donations.
$2,600
The AI linked thousands of work drawings into one spreadsheet
His team took over a big job with thousands of drawings, and each drawing had three drawing numbers that did not link to each other. He uploaded all the PDFs and the AI built a spreadsheet that tied the numbers together.
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