His diagram library fork got a live demo, built by an LLM in his own terminal widgets
Forked go-mermaid and had an LLM add a live Mermaid and SVG demo using his terminal and WASM widgets, published online.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasA cloud agent died on a ticket all night while the AI cleared six more
A cloud agent (Dots) died repeatedly on a GitHub issue, failed to connect to his tunnel, then went silent overnight, while the AI handled 6+ issues end to end with preview URLs.
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The Grout Guy's Photo Agent Cuts Quote Turnaround From Days to Minutes
Australian tiling business The Grout Guy built a photo-analyzing Agentforce agent that cut quote turnaround from days to minutes, one of Salesforce's 2026 Customer Success Award winners.
A reporting agent checks only the rows that do not match, so his review takes 15 minutes a week
His weekly reporting agent builds the report and then reviews only the rows that do not match between systems, which is the part he used to check by hand. His own review is down to about 15 minutes a week and the setup has run for months.
I built a live web app for a local business in one sitting
She pulled 50 local business leads for $0.44 and used AI to pick the ones with good reviews and a weak web presence. Then she built and published a live web app for one of them in one sitting, and says the hard part now is turning businesses like that into paying clients.
The AI built our chronicle and compiled its people register
Their chronicle puts every document next to the key events of 1989 and 1990, with filters by country, type and place. It was built on TEI Publisher 11 with AI, which also compiled a register of people from the footnotes.
I told the AI not to sign my commits. It signed 25 of them in a row.
Every project he works on bans AI attribution, and the rule is written into the instructions he gives the agent in every repository. Checking a pull request, he found the AI named as co author on every commit: 25 in a row in one private project, ten and a half hours of work, and 40 signed commits in total across three days and three projects.
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My agent rebuilt the business software I was paying $150 a month for and saves me $1,750 a year
Answering a how are you making money thread, he says a piece of business software he used does one thing and does it badly. With the AI’s help he built a piece of software that does the same thing better, with the features he always wanted. It took a lot of bug testing and had many errors at first, but it was done in two weeks. His version costs him $50 a year in server costs instead of $150 a month, saving about $1,750 a year.
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My agents work overnight, grade their own work and rewrite their rules
He built a team of AI agents that run on a schedule while he sleeps. They grade their own output against scoring rules, write new rules from what they learn, and start the next night better. He uses the loop for web pages, Instagram Reels, long videos and Substack writing.
Sunday lesson planning went from up to six hours to fifteen minutes
He teaches part time at a private school. Lesson plans go in six weeks ahead, and every student now gets a personal differentiation plan, which used to be done per group because per student was not feasible. The Sunday session that took four to six hours now takes fifteen minutes, plus short daily reviews of content and parent comments.
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