The AI studied his writing and wrote the voice skills he now edits with
Gave the AI samples of his own writing and had it write voice-matching skills, which he now uses for code comments and editing articles and reviews.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasAn agent builds his client meeting deck two days before every meeting
Two days before a client meeting, his agent does a deep dive on the account, researches the market, and builds the PowerPoint deck and his notes. He walks in with the deck already made.
Screen 900 applications into a 50-person shortlist
A case-study video describes a recruiter who gave the AI the real hiring requirements for a QA tester role and had it review roughly 900 emailed applications — without sending, deleting or moving any mail — and return a structured shortlist table of about 50 candidates.
Fix Meta Ads targeting lookups that the AI’s MCP cannot do
A poster in the showcase hub built two the AI skills that fetch real Facebook targeting IDs for the Meta Ads MCP, which cannot fetch them itself. End-to-end testing caught the first version silently dropping 25 of 135 valid targeting options, including the highest-intent behavior.
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Lost my job on Tuesday. Shipped a game about it by Wednesday.
His role was cut on Tuesday morning. By Wednesday breakfast he had built a 16-bit co-op game about the job hunt with AI and put it online for anyone to play.
The AI reviewed his 2013 research code and found the constant that made it drift
A researcher pointed the AI at the shallow water equations code he wrote in 2013. The review found PI defined as 3.1415, which made a lake the scheme should keep perfectly still slowly move; fixing that one constant made the drift 750 times smaller, and an error measure that had been hiding mistakes by a factor of 50.
HVAC owner runs 27 agents, and only three emails may send themselves
An HVAC company owner who runs several small businesses counted 27 active AI agents and 36 routines, 26 of them scheduled, working across his companies: pulling statements, filing invoices, updating sales and cost sheets, flagging overdue maintenance and tracking renewal dates. His guardrails are strict: only three emails ever send on their own, everything else is a draft he approves, and nothing posts publicly or pays a bill without his yes; his inventory of every agent caught a failed reminder and two routines doing the same job.
Deutsche Telekom Agents Query Data Across Clouds 4x Faster
Deutsche Telekom pairs the AI with Google Cloud's borderless Lakehouse to query data across clouds, including Amazon S3 and Azure Data Lake. Thirty thousand users now analyze data four times faster.
I asked Telus AI to fix my cable. It tried to sell me a $90 a month contract.
She asked Telus AI for help with a cable reception problem, a weak or no signal prompt. Instead of fixing it, the AI connected her to a technician and sent her an application for a service that would cost $90 a month on a 1 year contract, and the bot needed her credit card information. She said no.
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One prompt made 25 Steam achievement icons for my game
The studio had the AI and PixelLab make one sample icon and waited for their OK. Then it made the other 24 in the same style, plus the gray locked versions Steam needs, for a demo at Next Fest in October.
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