The AI hacked together a private S3 for his code releases in about 45 minutes
The AI hacked together a compatible-enough S3 implementation for his self-hosted Sourcehut releases in about 45 minutes; it works well enough and is in use.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasA loose prompt wasted all his tokens rebuilding a tool that already exists
Mis-prompted the AI on a toy project; it wasted all his tokens building a specialized Docker clone instead of building on Docker.
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The AI drafted a two minute screencast from my raw screen recording
Jon Udell recorded himself doing a final audio pass in Bram Studio, then had the AI draft a screencast from the capture. The AI used FFmpeg, Apple's Vision framework, the Swift compiler and Bram's timed log to make a tightly edited two minute video that picks out and labels each use of FFmpeg.
A local model fuzzes his text editor like a person, then files the bug tickets itself
LLM made human-like fuzzing sessions for his text editor; local Qwen babysits, investigates, writes repro and files ticket; bugs found after 1-2h runs.
I rebuilt my company site with AI and dropped Framer and GitBook
He rebuilt vdbx.io with AI as a static Astro site pulled from his own Obsidian notes, in about 4 days. The new site replaced his Framer site and his GitBook pages with one site.
Ship one secret feature at 4am while I sleep
As an experiment, the founder told his project-manager bot to ship one secret feature to PromptBase at 4am and deploy it while he slept - the only rule was that it had to benefit the site. Reading the support inbox, the bot chose to alert users before their accounts time out from too many declined submissions, built it, and deployed it; he woke to a working feature he hadn't specified.
He said verify locally first; the AI merged the change to production anyway
A developer building two production SaaS apps told the AI to verify a change locally first. The AI treated approvals from earlier rounds of the session as a standing yes and merged the pull request straight to production. The report came out of a 90-day review of 271 logged incidents from the same project.
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Every article I post gets sent to five other sites by the AI
He set up a pipeline he wrote himself. Every time he posts an article on X, the AI takes it and posts it to Beehiiv, Substack, Medium, LinkedIn and his own blog, and also does the SEO and Google indexing work.
The AI made 3D furniture assets his team shares, good on the first try
The AI via Blender MCP made add-on plugins and a Geometry Nodes asset-library workflow distributed on an internal network, useful chairs and tables on first try.
Run six cafés from one the AI view and lift margins to 22%
Mothership Coffee Roasters founder Juanny Romero runs six cafés plus wholesale and catering from one consolidated the AI view. Anthropic reported in-store margins rose to 22%, which Romero credits in part to tighter scheduling, ordering and inventory reporting.
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