The AI’s one-minute launcher opens his streaming studio and checks every source
The AI made a new OBS launcher in about a minute that opens OBS and refreshes and checks all of his sources.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasThe AI changed 30k spreadsheet rows, but my perl one-liner was faster
He used AI in a Google spreadsheet to apply a mass change to 30k rows. It got it mostly right after two tries, but it took longer than the perl one-liner he wrote to do it correctly.
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The free time trackers annoyed me, so I built my own with AI
He is a consultant, and the free apps he and his team used to track time for the official timesheet all annoyed him. So he made his own time tracker, ConClock, with AI, and it is already at version 0.7.2.
He trained a small model to cut his breaths out of recordings and saved hundreds of editing hours
Editing his own audio meant cutting out every breath by hand. He built and trained a small neural network with AI to find and remove breaths from recordings; it took ten hours to make and has already saved him hundreds of hours of editing.
A non technical recruiter built an AI that sources five candidates a day across five systems
He runs recruiting for an investment firm across 30 open roles spread over five applicant systems. His AI cron runs at 9am, reads the open roles, searches people through data services, checks Gmail so nobody gets emailed twice, and writes new candidates into the right system with its reasoning attached. In about six weeks it surfaced 40 good candidates and the firm made 2 offers.
The AI guards the gate that catches his other agents drifting off-brief
Made the AI part of a deterministic quality gate for agents; the gate catches cases where an agent strays from a project's constraints.
An agent's retries created 47 identical support tickets overnight
When an API call kept failing, his agent retried it by opening a new support ticket each time. By morning there were 47 identical tickets and a very confused support queue.
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Rebuild our newsletter from the old issue and the style guide
After employer approval to connect workplace apps, the Business Insider reporter gave Dots an old newsletter in Google Docs plus a how-to guide, and manually shared a temporary Okta two-factor code. The Dot produced a test newsletter draft in about five minutes that an editor called 95% good, with photos, a chart and links in the right places.
Route every request to the right one of my nine agents
Silva built a one-command routing gate on the AI that answers four typed questions about any request — which of his nine agent profiles should take it, whether it needs him first, how much work it is, and whether the text contains a live credential. On five real requests it flagged a key-shaped string at 0.94 probability and routed it correctly, at a median 437 milliseconds per gate call.
An AI routine reads his app's errors daily and posts a plain digest to the team chat
An AI routine with only Slack and Sentry MCP access reads Sentry errors, compares them to the app source, and posts a daily digest to Slack; reports very accurate.
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