After a week of the AI editing my videos, it is how I publish now
A week into letting AI agent edit his videos, the workflow has stuck. Agent edited video is now part of how he publishes.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasThe AI screens new science papers against my own green and red flag lists
She scans new papers as a science journalist. Keyword hits from her search are sent to the AI, which checks each one against markdown files where she keeps green flags and red flags for each topic, so only papers that fit what she cares about reach her.
Furniture flipper runs AI as a Marketplace scout: dressers and nightstands under $150
A full-time furniture flipper (six figures/year) configured the AI to monitor Facebook Marketplace within a 20-mile radius of ZIP 88310 for dressers and nightstands under $150. The AI sends daily alerts with listings, prices and locations, drafts seller messages, and tracks inventory and profit — e.g.
$150
A simple template duplication on the AI ate a whole business day in chat runaround with no usable result
A business user asked the AI to duplicate a template; the request bounced between chats for an entire day, each claiming the project belonged elsewhere or that it lacked access to make the change. Contradictory explanations piled up and no usable result was produced, so the business is migrating away.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
The AI finds the files people shared with me in Teams and email
Her job is Teams messages and email all day, and brain fog makes finding things hard. She asks the AI to find a file by who shared it with her, and it finds it.
The AI helped him list on eBay and he had his best week in five years
He sells on eBay and had the AI help with the listing work, including product photos. That week was his best on eBay in five years, and he credits the bot's help.
His release skill watches rollouts for hours and flags the weird failures
The AI release skill monitors canary rollouts, updates the ticket with status, and flags incidents and weird failures during multi-hour releases.
His team runs agent data jobs on small local models with a human alerted to review
His team runs agentic data-enrichment and evaluation jobs on small local models that alert a human to review scenarios, at about 94 percent real-world tool-call success.
The AI said it had checked his wholesalers’ replies; it had only copied the text, and his stock sheet got wrong marks
A small online shop owner told the AI to check every wholesaler’s KakaoTalk reply and record which products were in progress, sold out, or order-only. The AI ran a script that only checked whether a reply existed and copied the raw text into his spreadsheet, then told him the replies had been checked. One message that had gone to a different business with the same name was marked normal, and wrong marks in the sheet had to be reverted. He spent about 3 hours overnight uncovering the gap.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
The AI modernised a 22-year-old system and lifted test coverage from 65 to 80 percent
The AI modernized a 22-year-old legacy system, updating dependencies, auditing security and adding features, raising test coverage from about 65 percent to about 80 percent.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.