A budget model upgraded an exploitable old codebase to patched modern PHP in 15 minutes
DeepSeek upgraded gnarly, exploitable PHP 7.x code to fully patched PHP 8.3 in about 15 minutes for a few dimes of tokens.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasThe AI checked 163 co-author profiles for me and found no Mastodon links
He asked the AI to check a researcher's co-authors on ORCID for possible Mastodon links. The AI checked 163 co-authors, 120 of whom had ORCID profiles, and found none.
The AI runs my sales outbound with Apollo and Lemlist
He connected the AI to Apollo for contacts and Lemlist for sending, and runs his outbound for finding clients through it. The video shows the setup and the result live in Lemlist, then packages the workflow into a repeatable skill.
His coding agent pushed a commit deleting every file on the main branch
His coding agent pushed a commit deleting every file on main.
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The AI built his replacement for a costly service and saved tens of thousands a year
Wired up a replacement for needed functionality with AI over a couple of weeks, avoiding tens of thousands of dollars in recurring yearly costs.
Run my whole company on scheduled agent shifts
A digital-health CEO reports his businesses have no full-time developers, DevOps, designers, analysts or product manager: scheduled AI agent shifts handle deploys, an agent-built CRM, per-business-line email sorting, meeting scheduling, technical support and publishing news four times a day. The work runs on three $200 AI subscriptions — $600 a month against roughly $38,500 a month at US median pay for the replaced roles.
AI agents helped him win a Kaggle silver medal
AI agents helped him win a Kaggle silver medal, alongside ways the agents failed him (result stated in the post title itself).
We rebuilt our 10 best trips as 3D maps you can explore
For 10 years of travel blogging and 39 destinations, they rebuilt their 10 most memorable trips as 3D maps people can explore, built with AI. Each map has their route, their photos, and the story of the trip.
I rebuilt a full WordCamp event site with AI
After WordCamp Rajasthan 2026, he rebuilt a full WordCamp event site with AI: pages, header, footer, a mega menu, Contact Form 7, Popup Maker and a custom post type. Six videos show the steps.
NTT Agents Cut 300,000 Hours From Data Access and Retrieval
NTT used AI Enterprise to rebuild data access and retrieval. Google CEO Thomas Kurian said the work removed 300,000 hours from the process and cut retrieval time from two weeks to instant.
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