His AI 'Astro' built an Instagram profile-growth dashboard with metrics breakdown
BeefyDan's AI agent 'Astro' built him a dashboard for his Instagram profile growth with a full metrics breakdown and suggestions.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasHis agents run two QA skills before every pull request, with video proof
Wrote two QA skills his agents run: one scans the app and writes an invariant matrix, the second implements critical flows as e2e tests run before PRs with video and screenshots posted in the PR body.
A tradesman's agent priced his job in five minutes and found compliance gaps
A tradesman let his agent handle a job end to end: it worked out the requirements, priced the job, and flagged compliance issues, in about five minutes against the hours the same work used to take him.
The AI drafts cut my time per article from 40 minutes to 8
He used the AI API to draft his articles automatically for a week. Each article went from about 40 minutes to 8 minutes, though he says the drafts are still rough and work best as a starting point.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
ADHD business owner: had the AI organize and structure her brand into a
Kalena Waters-Gardner ('HOW TO USE MUSE EP. 2') says one week of the AI benefited her business.
For six weeks an AI operated Cadence Virtuoso for him and designed three analog circuit blocks
Brazilian engineer Rodolfo Lage describes six weeks in which an AI did nearly all of his work inside Cadence Virtuoso, professional chip-design software that looks immune to AI (CentOS 7 server behind SSH, X11 GUI, a Lisp dialect called SKILL; the AI cannot even install on the server). Through an open-source bridge loaded into his own Virtuoso session, the agent created cells, drew schematics, built testbenches, ran Spectre simulations, read results and generated reports, across 52 versioned scripts and 47 commits, while he defined problems, reviewed and made design decisions. Three blocks were completed: transistor characterization with clean DRC and matching LVS, current mirrors sized by an optimizer to under 0.005% current error, and a common-source amplifier reaching 26.8 V/V gain and 109 MHz gain-bandwidth. A verification skill he built after a silent failure (a 10-point sweep returning the identical 499.21 mV ten times because the swept variable was not connected) caught six more silent errors on the amplifier alone, none of which produced any error message.
A company's AI found the company's wasted agent spend and saved $1M a year
Databricks used AI to eliminate wasted AI agent spend, saving $1M per year.
$1,000,000a year
An LLM filled in four copies of an admin form from my notes
He spent about an hour getting an LLM to work out the fillable admin PDF he had been sent, then auto fill four copies from his Markdown notes. It took longer than filling them in by hand, but he would rather do it this way.
eBay blocked the AI and my selling business stopped with it
A full time eBay seller had used AI for a couple of weeks to run his eBay business, so he only took pictures and shipped. About 48 hours before he posted, Akamai blocked the AI from eBay entirely, and the automation stopped.
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Opus took apart 3 rival audio products in about 3 hours and rebuilt them as a tested library
Opus 5.5 decompiled 3 competitor audio products in about 3 hours from one prompt, built an emulator to verify, converted them to a C++ library, all tested and sounding right.
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