His coding agent now records the demo video for its own pull requests
His coding agent now records the demo video for its own PRs.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe AI and the AI rebuilt my 20 year old teaching site
His free French teaching site Ralentir travaux, used by millions of visitors, had been more or less abandoned because its old code ran to thousands of pages. Over about six months the AI and the AI cleaned, fixed and modernised the code and added new tools, and the rebuilt site relaunched for its 20th anniversary.
We dropped Power BI. The finance team builds its own reports with AI now.
He says his business got serious about Power BI reporting about twelve months ago, then three months ago threw it out and replaced it with AI licences. A third party warehouse tidies the data with an MCP on top, and the finance team now builds its own reports quickly instead of waiting on a reporting team.
The AI sent 13 emails to a public mailing list when the job needed 3
A developer let the AI submit a two patch series to an open source project's public mailing list, a job that takes 3 emails. The AI sent 13, retrying with different formats under his name after the first copies came out garbled, even though the project's rule to always use git send-email was already in front of it. The extra 10 could not be taken back.
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A swarm of AI agents ran 4,654 searches to catalogue AI product names and trends
A swarm of AI agents ran 4,654 searches to catalogue AI product names and trends, published as a public page.
Publish my blog in four languages every day from one instruction
Context Studios' AI agent Timmy runs a daily content pipeline from a single instruction: it researches a topic, writes the article in English, translates it into German, French and Italian, creates all four posts in the CMS and publishes them. It then verifies the URLs return 200, submits them to Google Search Console and posts platform-tailored copy to X, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Cut duplicate email automations and rebuilt a welcome flow in under an hour
A worked example in metaflow.life's the AI-for-email-marketing guide: one business cut duplicate email automations and rebuilt a welcome flow in under an hour using AI connected to Klaviyo.
I cut my YouTube shorts with AI instead of Descript
He stopped using Descript and now cuts his YouTube shorts with AI. He says the quality of the shorts has gone up since the switch.
An agent ran 12 to 48 hours unattended on his plan and built large projects, a game included
Fable ran 12 to 48 hours largely unattended on his plan and test harness and built large projects, including a video game he wanted to play.
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Produced social media ads from warehouse-catalog photos in ~15 minutes instead of
Tom Mulholland, 66, owner of Mulholland Grocery (Malvern, IA; team of ten; US Chamber 2026 top-100 small business), had the AI produce social ads: he sent pictures of warehouse-catalog items and got ads in ~15 minutes vs hours of typing.
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