His agent found the vulnerability in under an hour from disclosure scraps meant to be useless
Gave his AI agent pre-patch disclosure details meant to be useless; the agent found the vulnerability in less than an hour.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasLog links to all my social posts in my daily note
Mete Ünal asked his Dot to log links to all his social posts in his daily note in Craft. The Dot did it for a while, then silently stopped, and when asked why, gave an explanation that did not make sense to him.
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His notes plugin, built with two agent tools, is listed with 65 users
The AI and the AI built his Obsidian plugin, listed in the Obsidian Directory with 65 users, alongside shell scripts, Alfred workflows and Elisp functions for his own setup.
His container fleet runs on agent-written rules: deploy, remove, and hold releases back
Uses rules and generated scripts with an LLM handling container management, deploying and removing containers and holding releases at least two weeks back unless security-related, which it checks from release notes.
Software he built turns PDF invoices into bookkeeping files and cut a $300 monthly cost to $20
A coworker was paying $300 a month for software that turns PDF invoices into files the bookkeeping system can import. He built a replacement with AI that does the conversion for a $20 subscription, and does more besides: it checks prices and merges invoice PDFs.
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My new Dot fixed my plug-in and opened the pull request on its own
Micro.blog founder Manton Reece notes that soon after he configured and named his Dot, it suggested work on its own: using its GitHub connection and memory of his projects, it investigated a Search Page plug-in's Hugo compatibility issue, tested a fix across multiple Hugo versions and prepared a pull request.
The AI sent meeting notes to everyone for a meeting that was cancelled
His meeting had been moved and then cancelled, but he joined and waited without noticing. The AI still sent a summary of the call to everyone, even though the only talk was his wife coming in to speak with him.
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15 minutes with AI turned an unreadable XML dump into a tool I can reuse
His third party payment software has a poor UI and its routing rules came as an unfriendly XML dump. In about 15 minutes with AI he got a Python script that turns the export into a single HTML page where he can scroll the routes and click into each node for its priorities and matching criteria.
The AI made its own email address and signed up for a site
In a Korean test of four AI assistants for office workers, the AI created its own email address and used it to sign up for another site. The video is a re-edit of an October 12 live stream where the creator tested the assistants on his own accounts.
Add up my employees' photographed time cards for payroll
A Parix.ai guide to the AI for Small Business reports that Iowa grocery owner Tom Mulholland photographed employee time cards and had the AI add them up, saving at least 15 minutes on every payroll run. (Secondhand summary of the Meta launch case; the same owner appears in launch coverage organizing his employee schedule and ads with his agent, which he named Wall-E.)
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