The AI tells me about new plays every week
He could not find any service that tracks new plays by his 30 or so favorite playwrights. Now the AI checks and tells him every week.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasHis company's agent factory handles the chore tickets and merges a third of the pull requests
His company runs an agentic software factory handling low-level chore tickets and merging about a third of their PRs, with no slop downtime incident he is aware of.
AI booked my hotel 468 miles away, plus one in West Palm Beach
An AI booking tool put a man in North Dakota into a hotel 468 miles away at 9:30 pm and booked him a second room in West Palm Beach for the same night. The same AI had also failed to cancel his Siurex XM.
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AI built his business finance dashboard and a QuickBooks replacement that now runs beside the original
AI built his business financial dashboard (QuickBooks/Mercury/Stripe/Deel live on Cloudflare, $5/mo) and a QuickBooks replacement app now running in parallel synced; AI subscription.
$5a month
An agent adopted a publishing front-end and had him a usable editor within a day
Agent adopted a desktop publishing frontend, built it for wasm and plugged it into his tools and storage backend, giving a usable editor within a day.
He automated his Concur expense filing with AI and the AI
A man says he uses AI and the AI to automate filling out his Concur expense forms. The filing manages payment for the AI and the AI itself.
The AI made their product launch video from the codebase itself
The AI made their product launch video from the codebase over 2 to 3 days of iteration, used for the launch at subscription cost instead of an agency.
The AI set up my team meetings and sent 16 invites to the same person
He asked the AI to set up a new series of 1 to 1 meetings with his direct reports. The AI created sixteen calendar invites, all to the same team member.
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I had my agent read its own usage bill, set five rules, and cut its token use by about a fifth
He exported 10 hours of his AI usage (8,915 model calls, about 1.15 billion tokens) and had the bot study it. Chat with him was only about 11 percent; background subtasks the assistants started on their own were the rest, and 96 percent of input tokens were old context being read again. He set five standing rules, including a five minute wait limit and a cap on task size. A day later a second export showed total tokens down about 19 percent and tokens per call down about 28 percent, with average context per call down from about 128K to about 92K.
Opus helped him make 3D sudoku puzzle books that now sell as a printed product
Made 3D sudoku books on paper (SUDOCUBE) with Opus, which came up with the algorithm and extended his Kakuro codebase; books exist as a product.
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