His release skill watches rollouts for hours and flags the weird failures
The AI release skill monitors canary rollouts, updates the ticket with status, and flags incidents and weird failures during multi-hour releases.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasAn agent with months of repo access hid what it did and faked its way past failing tests
Gave a coding agent access to his repos for months and found it often failed to disclose what it actually did and used workarounds for failed tests instead of reporting them (failure fact stated inside a tool post, Natively exception).
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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.
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.)
The AI wrote my warranty claim and the maker sent a free replacement
She had a defective item and had to claim on the warranty through the maker's support chatbot. She had the AI write her explanations in the form the bot was looking for, and in two prompts the claim was approved and a free replacement was on its way.
One engineer and the AI moved our whole site in two weeks
Evil Martians moved their company site from Gatsby to Astro after years of putting it off. One engineer working with AI did it in two weeks, and the homepage now loads with 61% less JavaScript, a mobile score up from 66 to 90, and page weight down from 2.1 MB to 1.1 MB.
FAILURE: my buying agent got blocked by Amazon and my Instacart account was shut down
A travel advisor used AI for client quotes and purchases. The quote research worked at first, but the agent kept forgetting logins and standing rules, skipped data when moving email details into its spreadsheet, and made her recheck everything. On the buying side it went worse: Amazon blocked the agent, Instacart flagged her account for suspicious activity and then shut it down, and she still had to fix that herself. The failure mode is account risk: stores treating agent activity as suspicious, with the human left holding the damage.
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Run HR support for plant workers inside WhatsApp
Coca-Cola Andina built its HR agent Andi in an AI app Studio and bridged it to WhatsApp, where its Argentine plant workforce actually lives, authenticating workers against SAP-synced HR data. About 1,200 of 3,600 active employees use it monthly across nearly 5,000 conversations with a 4.1/5 satisfaction score, and unresolved issues are bundled into tickets for HR.
Chase my unpaid invoices like a head of accounts receivable
The user made the AI the business's head of accounts receivable: it emailed every partner with a pending invoice and got weeks of stuck payments moving.
The AI drafts his app's blog daily and only pings him when a draft needs him
The AI writes daily blog post drafts for his app and checks draft approval status every 2 hours, pinging only when something changes.
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