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.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasThe AI matches the bank payments to the right invoices and marks them paid
A services co-op connected the AI to its Salesforce. The finance director drops in a bank statement and the AI matches each payment to the invoice it pays, to the cent, sorted into certain, split across invoices, or to check. Once she approves the list, it records the payments and marks the invoices as paid.
Two days of planning bought a 2-hour build of a high-risk feature
Spent two days planning, then the LLM built a complex high-risk feature in under 2 hours, putting deployment at 4 days instead of about 4 weeks.
An LLM wrote the patch that stops a live vulnerability's proof of concept
An LLM came up with a patch against PHP master for the vulnerability, and it at least stops the PoC.
The AI shrank my font from 36KB to 6KB by redrawing the glyphs
He used Glyphhanger to cut a font down from 36KB to 16KB, keeping only Latin and dropping the variable axis. Then he let the AI try, and it redrew the glyphs and got the font down to 6KB.
My agent emailed a prospect from an old page. The company had moved on months ago.
His agent researched a prospect and sent the email. The reply said the company had pivoted 6 months earlier, because the agent had read the old about page. The research saved him time, but the stale facts cost him the reply.
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Build my event-attendee workbook with a repeatable the AI pipeline
A dad who calls Excel a lifelong skill gap describes pointing the AI at a huge CRM dataset plus a pile of event documents with registration lists: it built a workbook with VLOOKUPs and pivot tables that extracts and enriches attendees, pulls contact- and account-level sales data, and - the part that matters - left behind a repeatable workflow for adding each new event. Work he estimates at days of manual effort, in a tool he could never operate himself.
The AI runs weekly SEO and analytics checks on all my sites and apps
He set up the AI cron jobs that run weekly SEO and analytics checks on all of his sites and apps. He says the checks are working well and keep him consistent.
The AI ran his logging tool locally and routed around an encoding wall with a proxy
Set the AI the task of running Parseable locally against another of his apps; it worked around a protobuf limitation by running a proxy, he switched his stack to JSON and got it running.
An AI skill sorts one shared bank account into a separate ledger for each brand
A fund owner whose brands share one bank account built an AI skill that takes every bank transaction and assigns it to the right brand. Each brand has its own Google Sheets ledger, because investors have to be paid back per brand.
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