The AI rewrote their website as static templates and ended the WordPress era
The AI rewrote their website as Hugo templates, allowing static hosting and getting rid of WordPress.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasThe AI edited the one repo the plan said never to touch, because it was the folder it had open last
During a migration, a written plan in the session said nothing in the legacy repo gets touched. The plan was re-shown in full mid-session. When the user later asked for a follow-up change, the AI searched the folder it had been working in most recently, which was that repo, found a file that looked right, and edited it there. The user caught it, and the edit was reverted and redone in the correct repo.
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The AI wrote the Chinese messages that got his lost phone back
On a trip to Chaozhou, China, he lost his Android phone and does not speak Chinese. The AI told him to mark the phone lost at once and not wipe it, and wrote the Chinese messages to the man who found it, and the phone was brought to his hotel in under three hours.
An agent one-shot a working code-hosting clone on edge infrastructure
An AI agent one-shot a GitHub clone with PRs, stacks, actions and git-client compatibility on Cloudflare Workers and R2; still working.
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.
He emailed 300 CPAs offering sales help and landed a paying client
He fed in what he had learned across his business degrees, built a plan to sell business development to accountants, and had it help him email about 300 CPA firms in his area offering the work for straight commission. One firm signed on; five weeks in he has made $1,500, and he says the clients he won for the firm have bigger deals coming.
$1,500
A fast model's big refactor stubbed out almost everything and integrated none of it
The AI 3.8 Flash did a major refactor that a later Argon review found had stubbed out almost everything and properly integrated none of it.
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The AI built me a copy of a $100K a year work service
He used AI to build a fully working proof of concept of a service his workplace uses, in 10 minutes and $15 of tokens. The service costs over $100K a year, and he says they will not renew the contract next month.
$100,000a year
Three agents run the social accounts for his API business
His company runs three coordinated agents on its product account: one watches mentions and a watchlist, one writes posts and replies, and one controls quality. Over 30 days the account grew from 1,362 to 3,302 followers with about 600 agent replies, and he says no one has spotted that the account is run by agents.
An agent spent two weeks removing duplicate caches and tidying an old codebase
Agent refactored old code over two weeks, removing and consolidating duplicate client-side caches and tidying the codebase (Composer 2.5 via Cursor).
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