The AI does my quarterly sales tax and fills in the state website
He hates filing quarterly sales tax, so now the AI gets the data, works out what his business owes, and fills in the state website. He checks it and pushes the final button himself.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasThe AI built his team an internal tool, then spent 4 weeks rebuilding its sync after it tangled
The AI built an internal productivity tool that would not otherwise exist, then its ad hoc sync logic got so tangled he stopped feature work for about 4 weeks while the AI built and tested a proper sync engine.
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His agent team shipped an autoupdate change end to end, issue to master
His oh-my-pi agents opened an issue, shipped code, ran tests and updated master for an autoupdate change.
The AI edited my whole video from one raw clip
He dropped his raw clip into AI and it did the edit: it cut the stutters, pauses, and ums, and added zooms, sound effects, captions, and animations. He says the finished edit was the AI’s work, not his.
The AI made the advert for the event I help run
The AI researched the event, looked at the programme and speakers, and picked a style. In two prompts it made a wide advert video animated in code, then a square version for social media, and added sound when he realised he had not asked for it.
The AI modernised a 22-year-old system and lifted test coverage from 65 to 80 percent
The AI modernized a 22-year-old legacy system, updating dependencies, auditing security and adding features, raising test coverage from about 65 percent to about 80 percent.
He asked for one Markdown file of test cases; a 36-agent workflow he never asked for ate his whole usage and produced nothing
A user asked the AI for a single Markdown file of manual test cases for his project, written by checking the code. Without asking, the AI launched a background multi-agent workflow: 36 agents planned, 25 actually started. It ran until his usage was gone, the agents failed, and the session ended. No verifier finished and no file was ever written to his project. The AI later admitted one pass would have done the job.
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My work agent did 119 audit matches in 15 minutes that take me a full day
A man spent a few weeks building a work AI agent for compliance checks. Today it worked through a 200 question information security audit bank and completed the 119 items that match answers to the correct standard procedures in 15 minutes. That section normally takes him a whole day.
Every Monday my agent scans my YouTube comments and drafts replies for me to approve
Every Monday the AI scans one of his YouTube channels for new comments and drafts replies to them. He reads the drafts, gives the go ahead, and the AI posts them with its browser. Nothing goes up without his review.
Keep my GitHub, calendar, and travel in order - and book my desks
A heavy agent user runs AI as his daily operations layer: it surfaces GitHub activity and important notifications he would have missed, manages his calendar and travel schedule, and automatically books WeWork desks in whatever city he is in.
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