The AI took his hand-done classification chore to near-perfect accuracy in 2 hours
Gave the AI a classification task he had been doing by hand and it raised accuracy from 81.3/89.9/92.1 to 90.9/99.3/99.6 in a little over 2 hours.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasThe AI’s setup script wiped the existing project in its cleanup step
The AI wrote an MCP setup script whose cleanup step wiped the existing project when run, with no backup.
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The AI investigates customer bug reports end to end and drafts the reply for his approval
When a customer bug report comes in, the AI researches it end to end in 15 to 30 minutes: it reads the report, checks read only production logs and databases, and writes a summary with a proposed Jira comment. He approves the comment before it posts, and he says he barely does bug research by hand anymore.
Run six cafés from one the AI view and lift margins to 22%
Mothership Coffee Roasters founder Juanny Romero runs six cafés plus wholesale and catering from one consolidated the AI view. Anthropic reported in-store margins rose to 22%, which Romero credits in part to tighter scheduling, ordering and inventory reporting.
The AI turned my whole Zotero library into an Obsidian vault in 34 hours
He gave the AI one big job: go through his entire Zotero library and build an Obsidian vault on disk that documents every article, sums each one up, pulls out the key ideas and links articles that share ideas. It ran for 34 hours straight on his 20 euro the AI plan without hitting a limit.
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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An inventory agent changed 973 items the wrong way within 30 seconds of getting access
His team gave an agent live access to their inventory system on a Friday and it adjusted 973 items incorrectly within 30 seconds. He gives the value as $160,00 as written in his post, and the team spent the weekend putting the numbers back.
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The AI pulls reports out of dashboards that have no export and rolls them into one
His work runs on provider dashboards that offer no downloads, with a separate dashboard per location. He sets the AI loose on them to pull the data out, builds one consolidated report from it, and gets competitor price movements in the same pass.
The AI turned his blog article's interactive diagrams into a published video
The AI built a recording app that screencasted the interactive diagrams in his blog article and added titles, turning the article into a published video, though it took many hours.
The AI cuts his videos by editing the subtitles, and the edit comes out right
The AI cuts his video in DaVinci Resolve by editing a subtitle export with IntelliScript; Resolve then produces the cut version; works well.
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