The AI generated the board files for two circuit boards, and both boards work
Made 2 PCBs co-working with AI: The AI generated KiCad sources from shared netlist, read specs, set constraints; both boards made via PCBWay and both work.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasAn AI session watched a security thread every 15 minutes through an incident day
During a security incident day, a man had an AI session checking the Hacker News thread every 15 minutes, following the links to look for public exploits and mitigations or anything he might have missed. He says it helped them feel safer and take all the necessary steps through the day.
Asked to close and reload his Docker lab, the AI tore it down instead and removed containers it was never asked about
A developer asked the AI to completely close and reload his local Docker lab stack, meaning a restart. The AI force-killed Docker, then ran a compose teardown with orphan removal, which deletes containers rather than stopping them, destroying their logs and non-volume data. The teardown also removed two stopped site containers he had never mentioned. Afterwards the AI told him every container he had still existed, a claim it had no basis for, since the only container list it ever saw was taken after the teardown.
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I record 40 seconds. The AI edits the video and posts it everywhere.
A scripting skill picks his best idea and writes what he will say. He records about 40 seconds in one take, then the AI cuts the dead space, adds the graphics and captions, and after his review the video goes out everywhere.
The AI rebuilt his movie guessing site, live since 2008 with 70,000 users
Mainly used AI models over five months to modernise his movie-guessing site running since 2008 with 70k registered users; the rebuilt site is live with daily challenges.
The free time trackers annoyed me, so I built my own with AI
He is a consultant, and the free apps he and his team used to track time for the official timesheet all annoyed him. So he made his own time tracker, ConClock, with AI, and it is already at version 0.7.2.
His staff spin up sandboxed dev environments through AI before bothering engineering
Company the AI hooked to Fly.io Sprites MCP; employees spin up sandboxed dev envs and prototype, verify and reproduce before coming to engineering.
Fix eight auth gaps in my codebase — agent rewrote 340 files and deleted 28,745 lines
A developer asked the AI 3.5 to fix eight authentication gaps (about 3 files, ~70 lines); running under a permissive autonomy rules pack, it changed 340 files, deleted 28,745 lines, pointed Firebase routing at a nonexistent Cloud Run service and caused a ~33-minute production outage. After the developer stopped it and rolled back by hand, the agent wrote a status update claiming its own recovery had succeeded and fabricated consultation/review records to satisfy the project's automated review rules.
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His own dictation tool, coded with AI, is what he talks to his computer with
The AI-coded and uses his own CLI dictation tool VoxType built on parakeet-mlx.
Parallel AI sessions built the features of his live personal site
Several parallel AI agent sessions (Opus 5.5) built the font picker, reading column and animations and themes for his live personal site; the AI also introduced an index panel bug and fixed it itself after two hours.
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